Four Noble Truths Overview

Trauma-Informed Practice

  • 430BFour Noble Truths Overview
    Retell the Buddha’s first teaching at Deer Park and explain how his four discoveries help people understand disappointment; connect the four truths to familiar experiences like not getting what you want or losing something important; and demonstrate compassionate responses to others’ suffering.
  • 430CFour Noble Truths Overview
    Compare the Buddha’s medical analogy (diagnosis, cause, prognosis, treatment) with modern problem-solving approaches; investigate how the four truths explain patterns of dissatisfaction in different life areas; and develop systematic approaches for applying the eightfold path to specific challenges.
  • 430DFour Noble Truths Overview
    Examine personal and social sources of suffering through contemplative inquiry; evaluate how understanding the four truths transforms relationships with disappointment, conflict, and change; and implement mindfulness practices that cultivate emotional resilience and compassionate response to others’ pain.
  • 430EFour Noble Truths Overview
    Analyze each of the four noble truths by connecting traditional teachings with personal contemplative insights; evaluate how understanding dukkha—its causes, cessation, and the path—is relevant to working with contemporary psychological and social challenges; and evaluate how contemplating these truths can help develop renunciation, compassion, confidence, and commitment to the eightfold path.
  • 102EAlleviating Dukkha
    Apply the four noble truths framework to analyze a specific community issue by identifying the suffering, investigating its causes, envisioning cessation, and designing a path to resolution; evaluate the effectiveness of proposed solutions through the lens of reducing kleshas (mental afflictions); and implement community action that demonstrates understanding of both relative and ultimate approaches to alleviating suffering.
  • 443ECompassion
    Analyze the nature of karuna/compassion; guide unscripted meditation practices to generate this quality; and implement compassionate actions based on understanding beings’ desire for well-being and safety.

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