Jeffery Bott, CPT, MI USAR
jeffery.bott@us.army.mil
MTT Intel Advisor for 1st Mech Bn, 2ndBde, 9th Iraqi Armor Division 2006-2007
Great Article about Camp Taji and Military Transition Teams and the Issues they Face with Big Army
This user is a Democrat and a Buddhist married to a wonderful woman from Laos.
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References edit
- Military Transition Team Official site
- Army News Service: "Top Iraqi General Visits Fort Riley, Sees Transition Team Training"
The Four Noble Truths edit
According to the scriptures, the Buddha taught that in life there exists sorrow / suffering which is caused by desire and it can be cured (ceased) by following the Noble Eightfold Path (Sanskrit: Āryāṣṭāṅgamārgaḥ, Pāli: Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo). This teaching is called the Catvāry Āryasatyāni (Pali: Cattāri Ariyasaccāni), the "Four Noble Truths".
- Suffering: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
- The cause of suffering: The desire which leads to renewed existence (rebirth) (the cycle of samsara)
- The cessation of suffering: The cessation of desire.
- The way leading to the cessation of suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path;
According to the scriptures, the Four Noble Truths were among the topics of the first sermon given by the Buddha after his enlightenment,[1] which was given to the five ascetics with whom he had practiced austerities, and were originally spoken by the Buddha, not in the form of a religious or philosophical text, but in the form of a common medical prescription of the time. The traditional understanding in the Theravada is that these are an advanced teaching for those who are ready for them.[2]
The Noble Eightfold Path edit
According to a saying attributed in some traditions to the Buddha, if a person does not follow the Eightfold Path, one lives one's life like a preoccupied child playing with toys in a house that is burning to the ground.[3]
- ^ Piyadassi (1999). In the Buddha's first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, he talks about the Middle Way, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths.
- ^ New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions
- ^ The Crystal and the Way of Light. Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu; compiled and ed. by John Shane, 2000, p. 164
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