The Buddha's Four Noble Truths offer a timeless framework for understanding and overcoming life's inherent suffering. These truths identify the problem of dissatisfaction, its root in craving, the ...

As this is my first Words of Faith article, as a Buddhist, I thought I would start at the beginning of Buddhism. A young man, Prince Siddhartha, was born into a small but vigorous kingdom in the ...

Sometimes it is helpful to look at the lives of great historical wisdom teachers to see how they came to their wisdom. The life of the Buddha intertwines verifiable facts and legend. There is some ...

I get a tremendous kick out of the numbered lists that pop up throughout Buddhism: the Triple Refuge, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Four Noble Truths. In fact, it was Buddhism that inspired me to ...

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” Jean de la Fontaine, Fables “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs.

Buddha didn’t have to deal with Wi-Fi drops or WhatsApp group spam, but his 4 Noble Truths—delivered under a Bodhi tree—still nail the human struggle. Back then, it was about suffering and ...

Siddhartha Gautama — the Buddha — the founder of Buddhism taught Four Noble Truths on which the whole religion is based on. These four truths form the very essence of Buddhist philosophy. These truths ...