Dhamma-cakka-ppavattana-sutta The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

Avoid two extremes

kma-sukhalliknuyogo----------------------------------------------------attakilamathnuyogo
sensual pleasure

Middle Way

self-affliction

Producing vision, knowledge leads to calm, knowledge, self -awakening & unbinding

Middle way Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path The Four Noble Truths Noble truth of stress
Birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful, association with disliked, separation from liked, not getting what one wants, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful.

Noble truth of the origination of stress

Craving for further + passion & delight, relishing i.e., craving for sensual pleasure, craving for becoming, craving for no-becoming.

Noble truth of the cessation of stress

The remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation (self give away/up), relinquishment (give up/ stop having esp. by force), release, & letting go of that very craving.

Noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress

precisely this Noble Eightfold Path right: view, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration.

Noble Eightfold Path

right view (attitude/understanding: three characteristics/four noble truths) right resolve (find acceptable solution determination: retreat, retract, recoil ex. water on lotus leaf) right speech right action Sin: Precepts right livelihood right effort right mindfulness Samadhi: Concentration right concentration

Twelve Permutations Concerning the Four Noble Truths

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before:

This is the noble truth of stress.

This noble truth of stress is to be comprehended. This noble truth of stress has been comprehended.

This is the noble truth of the origination of stress.

This noble truth of the origination of stress is to be abandoned. This noble truth of the origination of stress has been abandoned.

This is the noble truth of the cessation of stress .

This noble truth of the cessation of stress is to be directly experienced. This noble truth of the cessation of stress has been directly experienced.

This is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress .
This noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress is to be developed. This noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress has been developed. There arose to Ven. Kondaa the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye: "Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation." The Blessed One has set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by priest or contemplative, deity, Mra, Brahma, or anyone at all in the cosmos.