Throughout his teaching career Buddha taught a simple formula variously called The Four Noble Truths, This-That Conditionality, and Dependent Co-Arising or Interdependence. Basically this means that since dukkha (see prior post) has an origin, which is attachment, that therefore the origin of dukkha can be avoided or eliminated by not becoming attached. This does not necessarily mean leading a hermit lifestyle, since we still experience dukkha just as well there - it does mean turning back or turning within and turning on to the moment by moment direct experience rather than continuing to be trapped in the shadow play of "existence" - it means a meditative practice and procedure which addresses the basic ills of life.
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