Four noble truth & Eight fold path
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The 4 noble truth and eight fold path cannot be simply explained as it is. By doing so, the foundation for essence is diluted and there is no clear grasping of know-how for non grasping to be achieved, and the dharma would akin to christianity version, and this will be the sort of the dharma situation-to-be towards or at the end of dharma ending era. The below breakdown for dharma aspirer such as AEN ought to be fully understooded in its details until it essence. Through this non grasping of grasped of the below, you then can beautifully bring forth potential challenger or aspirer the wonder of their own delights and benefit them with ease and joys, to the least your own great bliss. Other wise, you would be indirectly dragged into a situation of dharma ending age within yourself. Hope it is a useful sharing. May bodhi enlightening bodhi and benefit all beings in the land of ultimate bliss.
1) The Four Foundations of Mindfulness or Four Estbalishment Mindfulness（《簡明四念處》catvari-smrty-upasthanani）
Four objects on which memory or the thought should dwell— the impurity of the body, that all sensations lead to suffering, that mind is impermanent, and that there is no such thing as an ego. There are other categories for thought or meditation.
The first foundation of mindfulness is the body - [Practitioners] use fi fty objects to contemplate the fl awed and impure qualities of the body....... Ching-wei Wang Assistant Professor, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology [Huisi’s Interpretation and Practice of Si Nianchu in His Sui Ziyi Sanmei http://www.chibs.edu.tw/ch_html/chbj/22/0619wang.pdf]
2) å››æ£å‹¤saṃyakprahÄ�ṇthe four right efforts一to put an end to existing evil; prevent evil arising; bring good into existence; develop existing good; å››æ£æ–·; å››æ„�æ–· are similar but the third point is the conservation of the good. The 'four correct endeavors.' (1) getting rid of existing evil; (2) working not to produce evil; (3) To work at nurturing goodness; (4) to destroy pre-existent evil.
3) 四如�足or四神足rddhip�da -欲神足 chanda-ṛddhi-p�da, desire (or intensive longing, or concentration); 勤神足 virya-ṛddhi-p�da, energy (or intensified effort); 心神足 citta-ṛddhi-p�da, memory (or intense holding on to the position reached); 觀神足 mīm�ṃsa-ṛddhi-p�da., meditation (or survey, the state of dhy�na).
Dighanikaye《長部》22經 -- Mahasatipatthanasuttam 大念處經 --(巴漢英�照�文法分�)-- The Great Frames of Reference -- chinese translation by Bhikkhu Metta明法比丘 -- english translation by Bhikkhu Thanissaro
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I love Mahasatipatthana Sutta. It is very much the practice I practice nowadays.
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is it true that only the arahants truly understands the 4 Noble Truths...? As for lay people like us is only at the intellectual level....?
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Stream enterer and beyond have some degree of knowledge. Arahant has full knowledge of it.