Foundations for mental liberation

Core Buddhist Teachings

Essential foundations, regardless of tradition or level.

🎯 The Practical Goal

Developing focused awareness that naturally disrupts the automatic progression from feeling to craving — simply seeing the process breaks it.

ContactSenses/mind meets object

FeelingPleasant / unpleasant

AutopilotUnconscious reaction

CravingWant more / less

💡 Only by being aware of this process in real time can we break this chain. Everything below teaches you how.

Four Noble TruthsThe foundation of Buddhist understanding: suffering, its cause, cessation, and the path.
Noble Eightfold PathThe practical path to liberation: right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
Dependent OriginationHow suffering arises through interconnected processes, with focus on the key sequence for daily practice.
Three Types of CravingCraving for sensual pleasures, existence, and non-existence — the driving forces of suffering.
Right EffortThe four efforts, and the Buddha's five methods for letting go of a craving once it has already arisen.
Ignorance & Three CharacteristicsThe fundamental misunderstanding of suffering (dukkha), impermanence (anicca), and non-self (anatta).
The 5 Aggregates of Clinging to the SelfThe five components that make up what we mistakenly think is a permanent self: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.
Unwholesome RootsThe three roots of suffering: greed, hatred, and delusion.
Wholesome RootsThe three roots of happiness and liberation: non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion.
Four Types of ClingingForms of attachment that bind us: sensual pleasure, views, rites/rituals, and self-theories.
The Value of MeditationUnderstanding the purpose and benefits of meditation practice in the Buddhist path.
Five HindrancesMental obstacles to clarity and liberation: desire, ill-will, sloth-torpor, restlessness, doubt.
Three Types of FeelingsPleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings that arise from contact.
Five PreceptsBasic ethical guidelines for those walking the path.