'This suffering, as a noble truth, has been diagnosed.' Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before. 'This suffering, as a noble truth, can be diagnosed.' Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before. "'Suffering, as a noble truth, is this.' Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before. "The way leading to cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It is simply the noble eightfold path, that is to say, right view, right intention right speech, right action, right livelihood right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. "Cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It is remainderless fading and ceasing, giving up, relinquishing, letting go and rejecting, of that same craving. "The origin of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It is the craving that produces renewal of being accompanied by enjoyment and lust, and enjoying this and that in other words, craving for sensual desires, craving for being, craving for non-being. "Suffering, as a noble truth, is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering, sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering association with the loathed is suffering, dissociation from the loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering - in short, suffering is the five categories of clinging objects. That is the middle way discovered by a Perfect One, which gives vision, which gives knowledge, and which leads to peace, to direct acquaintance, to discovery, to nibbana.
And what is that middle way? It is simply the noble eightfold path, that is to say, right view, right intention right speech, right action, right livelihood right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. "The middle way discovered by a Perfect One avoids both these extremes it gives vision, it gives knowledge, and it leads to peace, to direct acquaintance, to discovery, to nibbana. What are the two? There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the objects of sensual desire, which is inferior, low, vulgar, ignoble, and leads to no good and there is devotion to self-torment, which is painful, ignoble and leads to no good. "Bhikkhus, these two extremes ought not to be cultivated by one gone forth from the house-life.
There he addressed the bhikkhus of the group of five. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Benares in the Deer Park at Isipatana (the Resort of Seers).
Alternate translations: Harvey | Piyadassi | Thanissaro
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