THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS    THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH  To live is to suffer.      What is the Noble Truth of Suffering? Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, dissociation from the  loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering: in short the five categories affected by clinging are suffering.    THE SECOND NOBLE TRUTH  We suffer because we are imoroperly attached to things.     What is the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering?   It is craving which renews being and is accompanied by relish and lust, relishing this and that: in other words, craving for sensual desires, craving for being, craving for non-being. But whereon does this craving arise and flourish? Wherever there is what seems lovable and gratifying, thereon it arises and flourishes.     THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH  Freedom from suffering can be attained.      What is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering? It is the remainderless fading and cessation of that same craving; the rejecting, relinquishing, leaving and renouncing of it. But whereon is this craving abandoned and made to cease? Wherever there is what seems lovable and gratifying, thereon it is abandoned and made to cease.    THE FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH  There is a path that leads away from suffering.      What is the Noble Truth of the Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering? It is the Noble Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.