Extracted from The Essential Teaching, published by Dian Dharma

Teaching of All the Buddhas

He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha;
sees with right knowledge of

The Four Noble Truths :

1. There is suffering (dukkha)
2. The cause of suffering is craving
3. To cease the suffering is by ceasing the craving
4. The way leading to cessation of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path

This, indeed, is refuge, secure.
This, indeed, is refuge, supreme.
By seeking such refuge,
One is released from all sorrow – this is the Teaching of all the Buddhas. – Buddha

The 1st Noble Truth
And what, Monks, is the Noble Truth of Suffering ?
Birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, fear, worry, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness, uncertainty and despair, are suffering.
Association with the unloved is suffering.
Separation from the loved is suffering.
Not to get what one wants is suffering.
In short, the five aggregates* of clinging are suffering.

* The five aggregates are :

1. Material form (body) ,
2. Feeling,
3. Perception,
4. Mental formations,
5. Consciousness

They are called aggregates of clinging because we cling to them and take them as I, mine, or myself, my one

The 2st Noble Truth :
And what, Monks, is the Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering ?
It’s that craving which gives rise to rebirth, which is accompanied by delight and lust, and
which delights now in this, now in that; that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for being,
and craving for non-being.

Note :
The Pali word for craving is tanha which has been given various metaphors such as that of a creeper which weaves and twines around everywhere, or a seamstress who sews and links us like threads from one life to another, or a river which flows on continuously. Synonyms for tanha are lobha (greed); kammacchanda (sensual desire); raga (lust); abhijja (covetousness).

The 3rd Noble Truth :
And what, Monks, is the Noble Truth of Cessation of Suffering ?
It is the complete fading away and cessation of this very craving, its giving up and relinquishment, the liberation and detachment from it.

Note:
The Third Noble Truth refers to the attainment of Nirvana which is realized through the abandonment and cessation of craving.

The 4th Noble Truth :
And what, Monks, is the Noble Truth of The Way Leading to The Cessation of Suffering ?
It is just this Noble Eightfold Path, that is :

1. Right view
2. Right intention
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration

Note:
THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH is indispensable for the attainment of Nirvana. The Buddha says that outside of this path, there is no way one can exit from Samsara, the cycle of birth and death, and realized Nirvana, the Unconditioned element.