Setting the Wheel of Truth in Motion Talk
This talk is on the Buddha’s first discourse known as the Dhammacakkappavatthana Sutta. This is when the Buddha taught The Four Noble Truths for the first time…
The Four Noble Truths
At the Buddha’s very first teaching he presented The Four Noble Truths to the five wandering ascetics he had previously befriended on their search for enlightenment. He described awakening in very simple and direct terms. He would spend the next forty-five years teaching the Dhamma always in the context of these truths…
Awakening To The First Noble Truth
Awakening To The First Noble Truth is to fully comprehend the nature of Dukkha. In the Samyutta Nikaya 56.11[1], Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Truth in Motion, The Buddha describes awakening very simply and directly…
Awakening to the Second Noble Truth
Awakening to the Second Noble Truth is awakening to the truth of the origination of dukkha, craving and clinging born of ignorance of The Four Noble Truths …
Awakening to the Third Noble Truth
The Buddha describes Awakening to the Third Noble Truth as experiencing the cessation of suffering (Dukkha)…
Awakening to the Fourth Noble Truth
The Buddha taught that Awakening to the Fourth Noble Truth means that The Noble Eightfold Path has been developed. In the Samyutta Nikaya 56.11, [1] Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Truth in Motion, The Buddha describes awakening very simply and directly…
Ehipassiko Come And See For Yourself Talk
This a recording of a Dhamma talk on the experiential nature of the Buddha’s Dhamma presented at our Saturday Morning Dhamma class in Frenchtown…