The Four Noble Truths are:
(1) Life—taken in the sense of ordinary life, the life of ignorance and falsehood—is indissolubly linked with suffering: suffering of the body and suffering of the mind.
(2) The cause of suffering is desire, which is caused by ignorance of the nature of separative life.
(3) There is a way to escape from suffering, to put an end to pain.
(4) This liberation is obtained by following the discipline of the Eightfold Path which gradually purifies the mind from the Ignorance. The fourth Truth is called the method of the Eightfold Path.
[The Mother: CWM 3]
