The First Noble Truth

Monk Enō
3 min readJun 2, 2022

Everyone in the west understands Buddha’s First Noble Truth.

Long before any of us may come to study or know of eastern thought and parse the meaning of the Pali or Sanskrit translations we know the street translations.

In street parlance, the first Noble Truth is ‘Life Sucks’ or ‘Life is a Bitch’, depending on the company you are keeping. A brush with a world religions class or philosophic friends…

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Monk Enō

Zen Monk | Wandering through the Human Condition | Pubs: The Zentrarian and Everyday Karma