Four Noble Truths – Four Websites
The four websites, in the table below, have been created with an aspiration to match each website – in a tangential manner only – with one of the Four Noble Truths. The tagline for each website reflects this aspiration.
In reality, the four websites each present the Four Noble Truths and Buddhist teachings in a comprehensive way.
Buddhism communicates its vision of existence through three great images. “Perfect Vision is a vision, first of all, of our actual present state of bondage to conditioned existence as represented by the Wheel of Life. It is also a vision of our potential future state of Enlightenment as represented by the Buddha, or the mandala of Buddhas, or a Pure Land. Finally it is a vision of the path or way leading from the one to the other – a vision, if you like, of the whole future course of evolution” (Sangharakshita, The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, revised edition, 2007).
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Four Noble Truths |
Websites |
Website “Theme” |
Right View |
First Noble Truth: Existence of suffering [effect] Task: To understand suffering. |
buddhist-spirituality.info | Reality of suffering: Making sense of life and reality |
“. . . [a vision of] our actual present state of bondage to conditioned existence . . .” |
Second Noble Truth: Origin of suffering [cause] Task: To abandon suffering. |
buddhist-spirituality.com | Causes of suffering: Suffering and Its Causes |
“. . . [a vision] represented by the Wheel of Life . . .” |
Third Noble Truth: Cessation of suffering [effect] Task: To realize cessation. |
buddhist-spirituality.org | End of suffering – awakening and Nibbana: Awakening and Nibbana |
“. . . a vision of our potential future state of Enlightenment as represented by the Buddha, or the mandala of Buddhas, or a Pure Land . . .” |
Fourth Noble Truth: Path to end of suffering [cause] Task: To develop the path. |
buddhist-spirituality.net | Path to follow in order to end suffering: The Path to Awakening |
“. . . a vision of the path or way leading from the one [suffering] to the other [Nibbana] . . .” |
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