The Four Noble Truths

To me this chapter spoke a great deal about the worth of our materialistic lifestyles. Suffering is everything, it is all around us, and it is only natural for people to try and feel better. In our culture, people use things they can buy at the store or from a website catalog, and some of it really does makes us feel better (we've all had a meal that really hit the spot). The trouble is that because in our world everything does decay and change and fall apart, there is no way to find an eternal happiness from concrete things. I think this chapter highlights the idea that there is no way to find eternal happiness in the items we find here on earth, regardless of the temporary relief, and that in order to find fulfillment we must think above ourselves.