Critically discuss the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, explaining the reasons or arguments given by Buddhism to support these Truths and discussing at least one objection that could be raised against the first Noble Truth and one objection that could be raised against thesecond Noble Truth.
The four noble truths of Buddhism take an important role in this religion. As it is called forth noble truths, it mainly divided in 4 parts: Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and the last part is the Magga. The four noble truth were discovered by Sakyamuni and it were also announced by him. (Tsering, 2010) the main purpose of the Four Noble Truth is to tell people that the world is full of suffering and the reason that the people suffer is because of human’s
And they will have the cause that it will end inside itself. (Bodhi, 1994)
In Sanskrit, there is a word ‘Karma”. The meaning of Karma is “cause and effect.” However it has a different meaning in the theory of Karma in the perspective of Buddhist. It only means “the action that you mean to do” but not “all actions”. (Carus, 2012) There are good and evils in the perspective of mind, as well as in desire. That’s why there are good and evils in Karma too. (Carter, 1993) Good cause will receive good effects, and oppositely, evil causes will receive evil effects. Any Karma will generate a kind of force to go toward evil or good. (Carter, 1993) No matter what kind of Karmas, they are all exists in samsara, which means circle of rebirth in Sanskrit. (Bodhi, 1994) In Buddhism, there was a monk who is called Arhat. He is one of the perfect one who has attained Nirvana in Buddhism history. He had some achievements but he never had Karma. The reason of this is because when he is working, he did not work with any emotions and thoughts, that’s why he didn’t had Karma in that process. (Carus, 2012) However, in the perspective of Buddhism, Karma will stick on the person when they are in dead and alive due to the Samsara. In Buddhism, the concept of death is only limited to body but not to the minds and souls. (Bodhi, 1994) In the perspective of Buddhism, lives are combined by Panca Skandha which means 5 basic elements