Insight: Awareness of the existence of suffering leads to the practice of realisation - this is the first Noble Truth.
Insight: When we are unaware and do not meditate on the existence of suffering, we can easily we pushed around by passions, and desires for worldly things, and creating suffering as a result.
Insight: To eliminate suffering we must we aware of it, find its cause, and confront it directly.
Insight: We can realise nirvana - the absence of afflictions, and the presence of well-being - through the practice of the Four Noble Truths.
