The Noble Truth of Suffering (dukkha),

 

is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering, sorrow and lamentation is suffering, pain, grief, and despair are suffering, association with the unpleasant is suffering, dissociation from the pleasant is suffering, not to receive what one desires is suffering — in brief the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

 

The Noble Truth of the Origin (cause) of Suffering is this:

 

It is this craving (thirst) which produces re-becoming (rebirth) accompanied by passionate greed, and finding fresh delight now here, and now there, namely craving for sense pleasure, craving for existence and becoming, and craving for non-existence (self-annihilation).

 

The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering is this:

 

It is the complete cessation of that very craving, giving it up, relinquishing it, liberating oneself from it, and detaching oneself from it.

 

The Noble Truth of the Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering is this:

 

It is the Noble Eightfold Path, and nothing else, namely: right views, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.