Good morning!
We have a calm and cool world after sittings. Sitting make us settled in holiness. The Fourfold Holy Truths are the truths of our existence and the existential truths to become holy (wholly wholesome) and happy. The first existential truth is suffering (duk-kha: wrong-going, going against wishes): birth, sickness, aging, death, loss, parting, meeting the disliked, unable to attain wishes, in short, rampant five aggregates, essentially karma existence.
The second truth is the source of suffering, which is identified as craving (lit. thirst, tańhā, like drinking sea water when shipwrecked, which increases thirst). Craving (strong desire) comes from the delusion of a separated self (sin = separation, causing suffering, see above) Desire, divisiveness, and delusion (root of former two) are called the Triple Poisons (coming from sinful karma), poisoning all. Sin is the source of suffering and holiness is that of happiness.
The third truth is the cessation of the source of suffering, identified as nirvana. Nirvana (nib-bāna, ni-vāta: no-wind) is the cessation of karma-wind blowing us into the Triple Steps of delusion-action-suffering and the cycle of the Six Ways of hell being, hungry ghost, fighting devil, animal being, human being, and celestial being (karma-wind is known from the Twelvefold Dependent Co-origination and the cessation process of Zen: jhāna,Pali: dhyāna, Skt.).
The fourth truth is the way leading to cessation or nirvana in the Triple Learning of morality (sīla), concentration (samādhi), and prognosis (prajňā) to counter the Triple Poisons (corresponding to the Holy Ways: Sevenfold Awakening Limbs, Eightfold Holy Ways, the Sixfold Perfection of Prognosis, etc.). Discrimination is sin, separating the wholly wholesome way world in individual, social, and ecological levels. Nationalism is sinful in wars, etc.
10/9/16
The above pictures were sent by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka from Japan.