Top Highlights

• The Buddha called suffering a Holy Truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering, and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
• The Buddha said many times, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon."
• He then elaborated four kinds of nutriments that can lead to our happiness or our suffering — edible food, sense impressions, intention, and consciousness.
• If you want to garden, you have to bend down and touch the soil. Gardening is a practice, not an idea. To practice the Four Noble Truths, you yourself have to touch deeply the things that bring you peace and joy.
• If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.