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Why do the “Four Noble Truths” of Buddhism help people cope with life’s inevitable pain?
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If the “Four Noble Truths” are followed, including the “Noble Eightfold Path” steps, they help minimize life’s inevitable pain. They help Buddhists to avoid negative desires and behavior and focus on good living more focused on helping others.
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Because they are more or less the Golden Rule that Jesus taught from from the Torah.
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Buddhism does not make a sharp distinction between good and evil, because everything that exists and happens is part of the same nonmoral ultimate reality. Yet Buddhism has developed a high ethical system aimed at minimizing life’s inevitable pain called “Four Noble Truths”:
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These truths create a highly ethical system that helps people to cope with life’s inevitable pain when they adhere closely to its teachings. They help Buddhists to exhibit good behavior generally. It also helps them to overlook their own darker side and focus on right living that often mimics or mirrors Biblical concepts.
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The Four Noble Truths teach that our desires are the cause for our pain and suffering, so in order to eliminate this pain, we must overcome our desires. This helps people to cope with their pain because it gives hope that they can eventually become free from pain.