Critically discuss the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, explaining the reasons or arguments given by Buddhism to support these Truths and discussing at least one objection
Critically discuss the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, explaining the reasons or arguments given by Buddhism to support these Truths and discussing at least one objection that could be raised against the first Noble Truth and one objection that could be raised against thesecond Noble Truth.
The four noble truths of Buddhism take an important role in this religion. As it is called forth noble truths, it mainly divided in 4 parts: Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and the last part is the Magga. The four noble truth were discovered by Sakyamuni and it were also announced by him. (Tsering, 2010) the main purpose of the Four Noble Truth is to tell people that the world is full of suffering and the reason that the people suffer is because of human’s crave and desire. That causes all of the suffering. (Bodhi, 1994) In this essay, I will be discussing them and to see if there are any contradictions between them.
First of all, the first noble truth is “the truth of dukkha.” According to the observation of that was done by Sakyamuni, the Buddha. He noticed that there are many different kinds of sufferings on the world: women suffer when they are giving birth, people suffer when they are getting old, suffers when they got disease, suffers when they die, suffers when they are in love. From those examples above, it clearly shows that the essence of those suffers are “something you extremely unwanted”, and also the feeling of “unsatisfied”. In the perspective of Syakamuni, he thinks that it is a problem that human enjoys their lives --- it is problematic to feel “pleasant” during our lives because the happiness on earth will never last forever. (Bodhi, 1994) Although Buddha said there are sufferings in this world, he did not doubt that there are pleasant in this world. Oppositely, he admitted that Lay and monks can have a variety of material and spiritual pleasure. In Sutta Pitaka, there is a writing which is called Anguttara Nikaya, and it contained a list of enumerated
The four noble truths of Buddhism take an important role in this religion. As it is called forth noble truths, it mainly divided in 4 parts: Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and the last part is the Magga. The four noble truth were discovered by Sakyamuni and it were also announced by him. (Tsering, 2010) the main purpose of the Four Noble Truth is to tell people that the world is full of suffering and the reason that the people suffer is because of human’s crave and desire. That causes all of the suffering. (Bodhi, 1994) In this essay, I will be discussing them and to see if there are any contradictions between them.
First of all, the first noble truth is “the truth of dukkha.” According to the observation of that was done by Sakyamuni, the Buddha. He noticed that there are many different kinds of sufferings on the world: women suffer when they are giving birth, people suffer when they are getting old, suffers when they got disease, suffers when they die, suffers when they are in love. From those examples above, it clearly shows that the essence of those suffers are “something you extremely unwanted”, and also the feeling of “unsatisfied”. In the perspective of Syakamuni, he thinks that it is a problem that human enjoys their lives --- it is problematic to feel “pleasant” during our lives because the happiness on earth will never last forever. (Bodhi, 1994) Although Buddha said there are sufferings in this world, he did not doubt that there are pleasant in this world. Oppositely, he admitted that Lay and monks can have a variety of material and spiritual pleasure. In Sutta Pitaka, there is a writing which is called Anguttara Nikaya, and it contained a list of enumerated