The Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering

“We say 'Truth of the Cause of Suffering’. A person does not truly know the Wonderful Dharma and receives what is impure. This is the case of the humble. Non-Dharma is called Wonderful Dharma. A person annuls what is right and does not want to heed it to live. On account of this, that person will not know the 'Dharmata' [the Essence of Reality]. Not knowing this, it recycles between birth and death, and suffers greatly. It does not get the birth in heaven or gain the right emancipation. If a person has a deep Wisdom and does not transgress against Wonderful Dharma, as a result, it will be born in heaven and attain the right emancipation. If a person does not know from where the suffering arises and says that there can be no any Wonderful Dharma or what is Eternal, and that all return to nothingness, that person, as a result, will repeat the transmigration through countless kalpas to come, suffering all kinds of sorrow. If a person says that the Dharma is Eternal and that there is no change, that is knowledge of the cause, and this is the Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering. If one does not practice thus, this is the cause of suffering and not the Noble Truth of the Cause.”

Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 10 - On the Four Noble Truths.