Name: 1 - 3 The First Two Noble Truths (sub: eng/rus) / 1 - 3 Первые две Благородные Истины
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Which recording artist sang the most Buddhist

Now obviously, there's no officially correct answer to that question.

But if you want to know someone that I think should at least be

in the running for that title, that is, believe it or not, this guy.

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, who famously

sang the lyric, I can't get no satisfaction.

Now if you've read much Buddhist scripture, you probably don't recall

running into that phrase and that's because I don't think it's there.

But it does capture a lot of the spirit of what is called The First Noble Truth.

And that's what we're going to talk about in this

segment of lecture one, along with the Second Noble Truth.

Together, they constitute the Buddha's diagnosis of the human predicament.

Then later we'll be talking about the Third and Fourth Noble

Truths, which embody the Buddha's prescription, his cure for what ails us.

These, these Four Noble Truths are foundational to Buddhist thought.

The Buddha delivered them in a famous sermon

at Deer Park shortly after attaining enlightenment, which

in turn happened after he had meditated under a Bodhi tree for a very long time.

Now, I should stop here and admit that we

don't really know whether what I just said is true.

We don't know if the Buddha delivered that sermon, or what he said at it.

If he did, we don't know whether he sat under a Bodhi tree.

So far as we know, the story of the Buddha, and what he

said, was not written down for a very long time after he lived.

said this, the Buddha thought that, strictly speaking

what I mean is according to Buddhist scripture,

the Buddha said this, the Buddha thought that.

What we do know is that the Buddha's teachings were

being promulgated, well more than two millennia ago, centuries before

the time of Jesus, who of course is another foundational

religious figure whose sayings we can't really pin down with confidence.

Of course, as a matter of faith people may believe that any

given foundational religious figure said various things, and that's fine with me.

But as a matter of historical scholarship, we just can't be sure.

So the First Noble Truth, the one that I'm suggesting has a kind

of Mick Jagger aspect, is usually translated

But a lot of scholars think that suffering is really

not an adequate translation of the word the Buddha used.

It's not that the word is wrong, it's just that it doesn't capture

the full breadth of what may have originally been meant by the word.

So, maybe we should take a look at the word itself.

And for this purpose, and at the risk of seeming like a relic from a simple era,

board and an analog information technology known as chalk.

This is the word that is typically translated as suffering, and

as you can see I've written it twice with two different spellings.

The reason for that is that one is the Sanskrit version

and one is in Pali, an ancient language closely related to Sanskrit.

The reason this is worth talking about a little is

because this is true of key Buddhist terms in general.

As you read about Buddhism, you may encounter

And in some cases it really matters because

that might keep you from even recognizing the term.

So, for example, if you ran into this term,

Nirvana, you would probably have a slightly clearer idea.

Nirvana means of course, liberation, liberation from suffering and that is

what you get, in theory, if you follow the Four Noble Truths all the way to the end.

And there's one other very important term that can appear in

either language and is also related to the Four Noble Truths.

And that is, in probably the form you'll see it most commonly, dharma.

Or if you see it in the Pali, it is dhamma.

And it's a very interesting and rich word with a lot of meanings.

We don't have time to go into all of them.

Probably the most common meaning of dharma is to refer to the Buddha's

teachings and by extension, the path that the Buddha said we should tread.

But there is a more fundamental meaning of dharma.

It refers to kind of the truth about the way the universe is

structured or about the, the natural and moral law that structures the universe,

that is the truth that is reflected in the Buddha's writings and in his teachings and

the, the truth whose implications are spelled out in his teachings

but it's the truth itself, not, not just the Buddhist teaching about the truth.

So, in other words, you could say that dharma means both, the truth about

the way things are and then in, in the other sense of the term,

the truth about the way we should live in recognition of the way things

are, that is the, the path that is spelled out in the Buddha's teachings.

So this is kind of reminiscent of that William James quote

we heard earlier, where James said that the essence of religion

is the belief that there is an unseen order and the

our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves to that order.

So dharma in the, in the second sense, in

the fundamental sense of the term, is the unseen order.

first sense of the term dharma, in the Buddha's teachings.

And also there, we find out how to harmoniously adjust ourselves to

the unseen order, and, and thereby realize our supreme good, which is Nirvana.

if, again, we, we make it all the way through the, the Four Noble Truths and

follow them, and their implications, precisely which Brings us back to duhkka.

think that the translation of duhkka as suffering is

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