2026-03-21
The essential framework of the Buddha's teaching:
1. _Dukkha_: Life involves suffering or unsatisfactoriness
2. _Samudaya_: Suffering has a cause—craving (_tṛṣṇā_) and ignorance (_avidyā_)
3. _Nirodha_: Cessation of suffering is possible (nirvana)
4. _Mārga_: There is a path to that cessation—the Eightfold Pa