1. The truth of suffering (There is pain, everything is fleeting and changing, all beings, and human beings encounter pain at different levels -birth, decay, disease, death).
2. The truth of the cause of suffering (is created by ignorance)
3. The truth of the end of suffering (Called nirvana and is achieved by extinction of ignorance, desire and aversion).
4. The truth of the path that frees us from suffering (Consists of eight stages that resemble the Hindu yoga, called the "noble eightfold path” )