The Four Noble Truths and The Lord's Prayer

The Four Noble Truths

(1) Suffering, as a noble truth

"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.

(2) The origin of suffering, as a noble truth

"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.

(3) Cessation of suffering, as a noble truth

"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.

(4) The way leading to cessation of suffering

"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.

Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth SN 56.11

The Lord's Prayer

9 "This, then, is how you should pray:

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

10 your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

(for yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, Amen.

Matthew 6

The Four Noble Truths and The Lord's Prayer

* (3) Cessation of suffering, as a noble truth is the other side of the coin of forgiving us our debts.