Buddhism is a religion to about 350 million people. These Buddhists people believe that the ultimate goal in life is to achieve “enlightenment” as they perceive it. Buddhism teaches people how to end their suffering by cutting out greed, hatred and ignorance. Showing that when people do bad things, they will get bad consequences and when people do good things, they will get good consequences. The word Buddha itself means “the enlightened one” which originated back when the Buddhism religion was found by Siddhartha Gautama, known to all as “The Buddha.” Gautama had wandered into the search of understanding the world and life itself. After experiencing enlightenment himself, he began to teach others about the truth of suffering and how to defeat suffering. …show more content…
A teaching Gautama showed was known as the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths are viewed as the central belief of the Buddhist tradition, and are said to provide a basic structure of all Buddhist thought. The first noble truth is known as Dukkha, believing and understanding that life is full of suffering, stress, anxiety, e.t.c. The Buddha himself had said that “dukkha” in his first sermon, (translated from Pali) "Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress: Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful." Here implying that life is not perfect, and is indeed full of