The Noble Liberation and the Noble Truths

Dr. Mehm Tin Mon
(Mahasaddhammajotikadaja)

Professor of Chemistry (Retired)
Adviser to the Ministry of Religious Affairs
Visiting Professor in Abhidhamma and Meditation
International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Yangon.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

      The Buddha

      The Dhamma

      The Cause for being Drifted in Samsara

      The Supreme Enlightenment

      The World is enchanted with Pleasure

      The First Sermon

      The Two Extremes

      The Middle Path

THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH - THE NOBLE TRUTH OF SUFFERING

      What is Suffering?

      What is Birth (jati)?

      What is Ageing (jara)?

      What is Death (marana)?

      What is Worry or Sorrow (Soka) ?

      What is Lamentation (parideva)?

      What is Bodily Pain (dukkha) ?

      What is Grief (domanassa)?

      What is Despair (upayasa)?

      What is the Suffering of Association with the Undesirable and the Unloved?

      What is the Suffering of Seperation from the Desirable and the Loved?

      What is the Suffering of not getting what one desires?

      How, in brief, are the five Aggregates of Attachment suffering?

      Comment and Argument

      The profound Meaning of Dukkha

      Three Kinds of Dukkha

      What Sense Enjoyment really is

      The Delightfulness of Sensuality

      The evil Consequences of Sensuality

      The Freedom or Liberation from Sensuality

      Illustration of the Three Aspects of Sensuality

      Examples of Viparinama Dukkha

      Sankhara Dukkha is most important

      Is Buddhism Pessimism or Realism?

      Threefold Wisdom on the Noble Truth of Suffering

THE SECOND NOBLE TRUTH - THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING

      The Origin of Suffering

      Where does Craving arise and take root?

      Craving as the Main Cause of Suffering

      Attachment is the Cause of Suffering

      Craving is the Origin of Rebirth

      The Beginningless and Endlless Round of Misery

      The Craving that takes Delight in the new Existence

      Defilements are the Causes of Suffering

      Threefold Wisdom on the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering

THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH - THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING

      What is the Cessation of Suffering?

      The Cessation of Suffering and Nibbana

      The Two Aspects of Nibbana

      Three Modes of Expressing Nibbana

      The Summum Bonum of Buddhism

      Various Descriptions of Nibbana

      Nibbana is not 'nothingness'

      Verification of Nibbana

      Threefold Wisdom on the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

THE FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH - THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE PATH LEADING TO THE CESSATION OF SUFFERING

      What is the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering?

      The Explanation of the Path Factors

      (1) The Right Understanding (Sammaditthi)

      (2) The Right Thought (Sammasankappa)

      (3) The Right Speech (Sammavaca)

      (4) The Right Action (Sammakammanta)

      (5) The Right Livelihood (Samma-ajiva)

      (6) The Right Effort (Sammvayama)

      (7) The Right Mindfulness (Sammasati)

      (8) The Right Concentration (Sammasamadhi)

      The Noble Threefold Training

      Practical Training

      Threefold Wisdom on the Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering

      Enlightenment not yet Claimed

      Enlightinent Claimed

      Venerable Kondanna realized the Truth

      The joyful Exclamation of Celestial Beings

THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH
THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING