Insight: The Four Noble Truths are similar to a physician's diagnosis and prescription: identifying the disease, its cause, whether it may be cured, the prescription for the remedy.
Insight: The First Noble Truth is concerned with dukkha, or suffering.
Insight: The Second Noble Truth is concerned with the cause of the suffering. It is concerned with a lack of self-knowledge. When we have self knowledge there is no duality between self and the outside world.
Insight: The Third Noble Truth is concerned with the ending of suffering - nirvana.
Insight: The Fourth Noble Truth describes the method or path to end suffering, the Eightfold Path: (1) Complete view; (2) Complete understanding; (3) Complete or truthful speech; (4) Complete action; (5) Complete vocation; (6) Complete application; (7) Complete recollectedness; (8) Complete contemplation.
