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is no continuity of individuality from life to life, according to Buddha, but only of the quintessence of individual character or experience, which, finding a suitable soil of which there is no lack immediately sprouts forth, and is thus engrafted upon a different stock from the one on which it was nurtured and formed. It is the destruction of this nucleus of re-birth which is thrown out by each "bundle" or aggregate of being-and according to Buddhist Metaphysics, every thing including life or soul is only an aggregate of impermanent processes-that is to be brought about to escape from transmigration. Great stress is laid in all Indian religions on the painful nature of existence, and Buddhism is no exception to the rule. To exist is to suffer; but the suffering is not due to existence; it is caused by desire. Suppression of desire is effected by observance of the "good law" which means Buddhist principles. Accordingly, the four noble truths of Buddhism are:
CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
(1) the existence of pain(2) the cause of pain,
(3) the removal of pain, and
(4) the method of removal of pain,
These noble truths constitute the eternal immutable Law, which had been proclaimed by twenty four infallible Teachers or Buddhas in ancient times. The eight-fold path consist in :
(1) right views, (2) right aspirations,
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