Graham Priest
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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Okay.
So the four noble truths are as follows.
First of all, life is characterized by dukkha, which is uh unhappy states, if you want to phrase it like that.
Second noble truth, when we experience these unhappy states, there's a cause, or at least one cause which we have under our control, which is the mental attitude we bring to bear over these things.
Uh if you like a
Attachments and aversion.
Third Noble Truth is a corollary, get rid of the cause, you get rid of the effect.
So you change your headspace, then you won't get uh you won't experience unhappiness when things go wrong.
And then the fourth noble truth is itself an eightfold, it's the eightfold noble path, which is a bunch of techniques, if you like, to help you to change your headspace.
And these are partly, you know, understand the world in which you live.
Partly understand what your body and your mind are doing.
But then three of them are explicitly ethical, at least a Western philosopher would recognise them as ethical, uh right action, right livelihood, right speech.
If you want to summarise those, uh don't go around being an arsehole to people.
Okay, but this the the whole four that sort of define the basis of Buddhist ethics, there's a presupposition which is never made explicit, which I sometimes think of as the zeroth noble truth, which is that suffering is bad.
And the first time you hear that you think, Oh yes, that's obvious.
And the second time you hear that you think, Well, is it quite obvious?
And then the third time you hear that you have a serious debate about the question.
But the thought is generally that suffering is a bad thing and that's why most people want to get rid of it.
And that's true enough.
Um you lose your job.
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