The Four Noble Truths: (1) The Truth of Suffering: An insight regarding suffering, such as the four and eight kinds of suffering. The world we live in is suffering. (2) The Truth of the Arising of Suffering: An insight regarding the cause that gives rise to suffering. Desire is the cause of suffering. (3) The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering: An insight regarding the extinction of suffering. Removing desire, the source of suffering, equals arriving at the ideal: liberation. (4) The Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering: An insight regarding the practices that make the extinction of suffering possible. Carrying out the Noble Eightfold Path.