To escape the Pain/Freedom from suffering.
Hester plans to escape her suffering by leaving the town and starting a new life with Pearl, while Dimmesdale initially plans to confess his sin publicly as a way to ease his guilt and suffering. However, he ultimately decides to escape by secretly leaving with Hester and Pearl to start a new life away from the judgment of society.
He was looking for the real meaning of the life
The four nobel truths of Buddhism.1. Suffering: to live a good fruitful life you must suffer. It is as simple as that. Suffering is a part of life and cannot be escaped.2. Understanding of Suffering: You cannot go out and look to suffer as this is wrong. Suffering will come to you so you must just wait patiently and understand that it will come to you in its own time. This does not mean that you should live as happily as possible waiting for it but find a midpoint between happy and suffering.3. Acceptance of Suffering: When suffering is brought you don't greive and/or stress. Accept it as a part of life.4. Freedom of Suffering: Essentially to escape from suffering you must suffer.
He believed that: * All life contains suffering or unsatisfactoriness * That this undesirable condition is called by desire * That there is an escape form desire and suffering * That this route is contained in the Eightfold Path These points are called the Four Noble Truths
Nirvana.
Buddhism teaches that all life is characterized by suffering, known as Dukkha. This concept is one of the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism, which form the foundation of the religion's teachings on the nature of existence and the path to enlightenment.
The Buddha was trying to find the answer to suffering.
virtue and compassion
1) suffering is part of life 2) if people live life in a wise way they can eventually escape sufferin 3) people suffer because they are attached to material posseions and selfish Ideas
Buddhism. . . But more specifically he taught that life is suffering and that the only way to escape life, and ascend into nirvana, is to curb desire. When you desire no more, you will die and your soul will completely stop existing, according to him.
Buddhism states that suffering or unsatisfactoriness is the common experience with all people. In the Four Truths this is the first observation. The second seals with the cause of suffering, this is desire or wanting things to be different. The route to avoiding suffering is identified as avoiding or overcoming desire. The Fourth Truth says the actual method is to follow the Eightfold path which is a guideline to reducing pain and suffering in your life.