The Four Noble Truths

<TABLE id=AutoNumber2 height=210 cellSpacing=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="39%" height=385></TD><TD width="61%" height=385>Why are we here? Why are we not happy with our lives? What is the cause of our unhappiness and unsatisfactoriness? How can we see the end of unsatisfactoriness and experience eternal peace?
The Buddha's Teaching is based on the Four Noble Truths. To realize these Truths is to realize and penetrate into the true nature of existence, including the full knowledge of oneself. When we recognize that all phenomenal things are transitory, are subject to suffering and are void of any essential reality, we will be convinced that true and enduring happiness cannot be found in material possessions and worldly achievement, that true happiness must be sought only through mental purity and the cultivation of wisdom.
The Four Noble Truths are at the core of the teaching of the Buddha. He said that it is because we fail to understand the Four Noble Truths that we have continued to go round in the cycle of birth and death. The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path was taught in the very first sermon of the Buddha, which he gave to the five monks at the Deer park in Sarnath.

"Just as the ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, even so, this Dhamma has one taste too, the taste of freedom ~ Udana 56"​

</TD></TR><TR><TD width="100%" colSpan=2 height=206>What are the Four Noble Truths?
They are as follows:
1. The First Noble Truth
All beings, human and otherwise, are afflicted with all sorts of disappointments, sadness, discomfort, anxiety etc. In short they are subject to suffering.
2. The Second Noble Truth
The cause of this suffering is craving, born of the illusion of a

 

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where are truth #3 & 4?

seems like the text was cut off.