PHIL-201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noble Eightfold Path, Dukkha, Dharma
25 Sep 2017
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Leaves his ascetic disciples and eats a meal, cleans up (feels strengthened) Learned to train and contain many desires to the state of being emaciated but had still. 6 days later, he getsup and has found the path out of suffering (not the path out. Told in extreme ways to make a point: no level as asceticism will overcome suffering, no. The bodhi tree (enlightenment tree): he does not leave the tree until he finds the root of the suffering that he is trying to overcome. He touches the ground: symbolic that the way out of suffering is earthly, not transcendental. Found through the self not some eternal force above him . The first turning of the wheel of the dharma (it is the first teaching of the buddha; the core of. There is suffering (duhkha, also translated as disharmony, sorrow) elimination of suffering) as constituted by) the noble eightfold path.
