The Third Noble Truth Of The Cessation Of Suffering

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The third noble truth of Buddhism remains to this day to be “The truth that suffering can be eliminated by eliminating its conditions” (p. 155). That is unequivocally true. I can’t even say anything that would refute this alleged observation. If you can procure the means to acquire what you wish for, thenceforth your suffering will be terminated. The Buddhists define the third noble truth as:
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering is this: it is the complete cessation of that very thirst (craving), giving it up, renouncing it, emancipating oneself from it, detaching oneself from it (p. 159).
Once again, ordinarily I would disagree with a percentage of this mediation, conversely, I do agree with this contemplation one hundred percent.

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