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The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering When the Lord Buddha had finished his explanation of the origin of suffering, he continued with an explanation of the cessation of suffering. The essence of what he taught, based on the Pali is that the extinguishing of craving in the mind is by means of practising the Noble Eightfold Path, that craving is to be removed by means of the Noble Eightfold Path and that liberation from craving is to be achieved by having no further attachments. All of these are elements are of what the Lord Buddha called the ‘cessation of suffering’. The root of suffering is craving The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering [dukkha-nirodha] concerns the extinguishing of craving. There are those who wonder why this Noble Truth should deal with the extinguishing of craving rather than dealing directly with the extinguishing of suffering. However the Lord Buddha wished to extinguish not only the symptoms of suffering, but suffering at its roots. If the practitioner wishes to remove all forms of suffering (from the suffering of birth onwards) he must not forget that the suffering experienced in life is but the branches and twigs of a tree which has already grown (End of excerpt)