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Liberating
the Fourth Noble Truth of Suffering
ayam dukkha-nirodha-gamini patipada,
“this is the path leading to the
cessation of pain.”
The core teachings of Gautama Buddha is in the first sermon,
the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dhamma.
The Buddha after he attained enlightenment, remained silent
for forty-nine days after which he journeyed to the Deer Park
at Isipatana [modern day Sarnath, India] to visit his five former
companions, the ascetics with whom he had shared six years
of hardship. His former companions were at first suspicious of
the Buddha, thinking he had given up his search for the truth
when he renounced their ascetic ways. But upon seeing the
radiance of the Buddha, they requested him to teach what he
had learned.
Thereupon the Buddha delivered his first sermon.
The main topics of this sutta is the
Four Noble Truths Of Suffering.
This sutta also refers to the Buddhist concepts of the
Middle Way, impermanence, and dependent origination in the
Noble Eightfold Path.*
It Liberates us out of Samsara!
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