The Noble Eightfold Path and the Cessation of Suffering : หน้า 56/263

"The wise one who trains himself [yoĝāvācara] should see that the builder is ‘Craving’ who fashions the home that is the physical body of each and every living being, to keep those living beings being reborn again and again in that home and having to endure the ensuing suffering and retribution." Whosoever wishes to escape from this physical body which is conditioned by craving must practice the Noble Eightfold Path, to stop the mind from ‘conditioning thought’. Thus ‘Stopping the Mind is the Secret of Success’. **3.4 The Cessation of Suffering as Deathlessness** In order to show the relationship between the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering and the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Buddha taught that Cessation is the ‘Elixir of Deathlessness’ which can cure the illness of ‘Suffering’ — that is all twelve characteristics of suffering mentioned above. Those twelve characteristics of suffering are like the symptoms of a disease that traps living beings within the Cycle of Existence. Anyone who tastes the ‘Elixir of Deathlessness’—i.e. the Extinction of Suffering—will cure themselves of Suffering’s disease. **4. Explanation of the Noble Truth of the Path to the End of Suffering** The Lord Buddha’s explanation of the Path to the End of Suffering includes all four of the Path to the End of suffering’s implications in the light of the Four Noble Truths: 4.1. The Path as the Escape from the Cycle of Existence; 4.2. The Path as the Cause; 4.3. The Path as the Manifestation; 4.4. The Path as the Supreme."