Definition: (1) Ill-being; (2) the path leading to ill-being; (3) well-being; (4) the path leading to well-being (Noble Eightfold Path).
Insight: Ethics are principles of action that reduce suffering and nourish happiness.
Insight: The Four Noble Truths are foundations of ethics.
Insight: The Noble Eightfold Path consists of: right view, right thinking, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right diligence, right mindfulness, right concentration.
Insight: There is suffering in us and in the world. There must also be something else - happiness.
Insight: Suffering is the result of many causes and conditions; we don't have to destroy suffering to have happiness.
Insight: Acknowledging suffering doesn't mean seeing everything as suffering.
Insight: To transform suffering, we have to find the causes, how it developed.
Insight: One common cause of suffering is attachment to our beliefs - which leads to wrong thinking, speech, and action. A wrong view leads to the opposite of all the steps of the Eightfold Path.
Insight: Suffering can be transformed into happiness - confirmed by the Third Noble Truth.
Insight: The Four Noble Truths are all interconnected - we cannot view them separately.
Principle: Acknowledge the real suffering inside and around us, and learn to handle the suffering we have acknowledged.
