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If you are Buddhist, which of the 'four noble truths' made the biggest impact in your life for healing?

and do you attend Buddhist spiritual retreats? I wish for posts w/shared spiritual knowledge from study/experience/insight/inspiration. ty

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1. They are inseparable. No.
2. The "Four Noble Truths" are only the front gate to the world of Buddhism. The whole religion completely blows me away. There is nothing likes this that I have seen before. At least not in my life.
3. Acceptance of the first noble truth, life is suffering led to a tremendous contentment for me. So often we spend our time wondering what we are doing wrong, and personalizing our difficulties. (Think of a parent asking a baby "What's wrong" instead of "Why are you crying" - the first question assumes something is wrong - the second is just curiousity). Recognizing and accepting that life is suffering releases one from the mad pursuit of not-suffering, which is destined to end in failure, which leads to blame, which gives rise to guilt, and so on, ad infinitum. Acceptance that life is suffering released me from thinking "This is all my fault".
4. The nature of suffering, and (in mahayana) that meditiating on the idea that the Buddha is us and is in us relieves us of suffering. i've been to one in Prescott-Tibetans that practice chod. Very deep and much more shamanic.
5. The fourth, the Eightfold Path. It doesn't just tell you what to do, it tells you how to do it.
6. Yes I am a Buddhist. All four of them equally. They answered my questions, pertaining to life, suffering and death. From this, it enabled me to accept what was happening to others, with compassion and understanding. I was a Hospice Nurse at the time, very angry with a so called God that could allow such suffering to take place. From that moment on, I studied and practiced. Then 20yrs later it led to me taking Ordination as a Buddhist Nun. Therefore they aided with healing on many levels. Not only to myself but also in my Job, and my life.