ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Four Noble Truths, or the truths of the Noble Ones,[66] express the basic orientation of Buddhism: everything is impermanent, yet we crave and cling to impermanent states and things, which is dukkha, “incapable of satisfying” and painful.[67][68] This keeps us caught in saṃsāra, metaphysicallty interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, dukkha and dying again;[note 5] also interpreted as a psychological cycle of repetitious rebirth of the ego.
But there is a way to liberation from this endless cycle[74] to the state of nirvana, namely following the Noble Eightfold Path.[note 6]