the Four Noble Truths which are one that life is suffering which is a mistranslation sufferings a bit of a mistranslation but the idea is that everything is impermanent if you try to cling the things that will not last you will suffer so life is unsatisfactory inherently because nothing lasts to the root of that suffering is desire or thirst this kind of insatiability we have and three there's a way out of this and for the Eightfold Path which is the way out of it which includes meditation practices ethical practices like right livelihood right speech right action and then a bunch of meditation techniques like mindfulness and philosophical stuff about like how to view the world