Dukkha Nirodha Gamini Patipada Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 5)

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Four Noble Truths (Part 1)

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Dukkha Samudaya Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 3)

Dukkha Nirodha Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 4)

The fourth one of the noble truths is Dukkha Nirodha Gamini Patipada Arya Sachcha. It is about the path for destruction of Dukkha (Suffering). To attain the Nibbana, a person must destruct the desires completely. For achieve that there is a path with eight steps and it is the only way to attain Nibbana. This path is called as "Arya Attangika Magga (noble eight-fold path)". Lets see what are those steps.

1. Samma Ditti (Right View)

This means the right vision about the world. We must see the reality of the world and its behavior as it is. For that we must have a correct understanding about four noble truths. Because  it is the reality of this world. Also we should know that,

Doing bad things (killing person/animal, lying, stealing..etc) will make us to pay in this and next births, doing good things will bring us good results  in this and next births(existence of the Karma), existence of  the worlds called heavens, hell,Brahma..etc,There will be endless rebirths after we dying (existence of the Sansara), existence of the Buddhas and Arhath Theros .

Note that the Buddha has never told people to believe things with blind eyes. He has told us to find, argue with own mind and then believe if you feel it is right. It depends on your logical abilities. Buddhism is for wise people. If you are not wise enough to understand the things then you won't attain Nibbana ever. If you really understand the Sansara then you will believe in Buddha, Dhamma(his teachings), Sangha(his followers-monks) always ).

Once you get the right vision, then you believe about the danger of this Sansara. So you are trying to attain Nibbana. For that you should control yourself by mind,words and behaviors. Because you are going for a long and uneasy battle with your desires. So you have to practice and gather your strength for this battle first. Following steps are to control yourself and prepare you for this battle.

2. Samma Sankappa(Right Intention)

Samma Sankappa is to control your thoughts. There are lot of thoughts which arise in the mind in every seconds. They can be good or bad. Most of them are related with the desires, anger and hatred. We should try to overcome those thoughts with the thoughts without desires(Nekkhamma) and kind thoughts.

3. Samma Wacha(Right Speech)

This is to control what you are talking. We should stop telling lies, bad words, meaningless speeches, gossips and snitch. Instead those, we have to practice truth, kind words and meaningful speeches always.

4. Samma Kammantha(Right Action)

Doing right things describes in here. We have to avoid all the sinful and bad things and should do the good things always. We must avoid killing, stealing, sexual misconducting, taking drugs and alcohols..etc 

5. Samma Ajiwa(Right Livehood)

This is to spend a good and right life. spend the life away with the desires,anger and hatred. We should not choose any wrong method of living to keep us alive(such as weapon dealing, salve trade, meat trade, alcohol trade, toxic trade..etc).

6. Samma Wayama(Right Effort)

This is about the efforts to purify our self. So we must have right efforts for,

• Prevent arising of the evil and unwholesome states of mind and such actions.
• Get rid of the evil and unwholesome states of mind and such actions which already arisen within ourselves.
• Produce the good and wholesome states of mind and such actions.
• Improve the good and wholesome states of mind and such actions which already arisen within ourselves.

So stepping on above path, you can control yourself eventually and then you can battle with your mind which is full with desires, anger and delusion. It won't be an easy war to defeat the desires, since It has all the advantages and power over you.

7. Samma Sathi(Right Mindfulness)

When we are aiming for Nibbana, then we should keep our mind to that purpose always.We should keep our mind steadily in the right vision we already have. This mind is an amazing thing. It is very hard to keep it in one place.It keeps running everywhere in every seconds. With this untamed mind we can not attain Nibbana. We have to practice to tame it. To do so There are four "Sathipattana" which should be keep doing in mind always .

• Kayanupassana - See the true nature of every feelings coming from five Upadanaskandha and remove desires related to them by knowing them as it is by our mind.
• Wedananupassana - When the anger and hatred thoughts arising, see them as  it is and see the bad consequences of them in mind and try to destroy that feelings when they are arising.
• Chithtanupassana - See inside the own mind and its thoughts with the eyes of wisdom. Give eyes to your blind mind and see the arising of the thoughts and destruction of them as it is with their true nature.See the types of that thoughts (such as desires,hatred, kindness etc.) and it will help you to easily identify them and deal with them properly.
• Dhammanupassana - Keep the mind about five Neewarana (five things which blocks your path to Nibbana. Hatred, sleepy mind, scattered mind, Suspicion etc), five Upadanskandha, Seven Bojjanga, four noble truths.

8. Samma Samadhi(Right Concentration)

The eighth step is the right concentration.It is about the make mind in Samadhi(also called Dyana). 

Samadhi (Dyana) is a very steady state of the mind. There are four Dyana called first Dyana.Second Dyana, third Dyana and fourth Dyana. Without having these states in mind we can not turn our mind into Nibbana. So these Dyana are the door of the Nibbana. Once you have these Dyana then your mind becomes steady and very clear. It won't get corrupted by any external things (desires,anger..etc) and it won't run everywhere in every seconds. It will become tamed for your self in any moment.So we can go for Nibbana with these steady mind with the efforts and then we can destroy desires forever. To attain these Dyana we have to practice meditations and the way of achieve these are depend on the person and his wisdom (There are many meditations for achieve Dyana and choosing them is relative for person to person).

These article series describes the four noble truths in summarized way. But it is not that much simple and there are lot of deep descriptions and practices exist about these four noble truths. It is hard to explain those things in a blog and reading related books are the best way to explore those things. 

These are the most noble and pure truths exist in this universe forever and only the Buddhas can discover and teach them to the world time to time. Wish you all to realize these noble truth and attain Nibbana to end this dangerous Sansara circle..!!!