After Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment, he gave a talk at Sarnath, near Varanasi. The audience was a group of five ascetics with whom the Buddha had been practising severe austerities in search of ...

This article examines the Four Noble Truths, four principles which contain the essence of the Buddha's teachings. "I teach suffering, its origin, cessation and path. That's all I teach", declared the ...

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 ...

The Buddha taught what many regard as universal psychological principles: Everyone is subject to suffering; everyone wishes to have relief from that suffering; relief is possible, and there is path, ...

The Buddha taught what many regard as universal psychological principles: Everyone is subject to suffering; everyone wishes to have relief from that suffering; relief is possible, and there is path, ...

What you should know about the basics of Buddha’s life and teaching. Buddhism benefits from a superb public image in America, judging by the comments students offered during the eight years I taught a ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...