ause of Suffering is the ego and its related poisonous emotional and mental states. The Truth of Cessation is that humans can attain peace with self and others through the penetrating insight of meditation. The Path of Cessation is the willingness to observe self through penetrating the mind.
Sidhartha Gutama further taught that existence is marked by three traits: impermanence, egolessness, and suffering. Existence is characterized by impermanence because the universe, and human emotions, are in a constant state of flux. Because of this constant change, no solid, enduring ego can exist. The powerlessness of humans to control the forces of existence--birth, life and death--leads to inevitable pain and suffering. Attempts to control the forces of existence prove fruitless because: "The process of human development from conception onwards is held to be one of increasingly complex delusion in which the more sense one makes of things, the further one is alienated from the true meaning of existence" (Low, undated, p. 115).
In Buddhism, the structure of the pathology of human existence emanates from three poisons (sources of suffering) and six realms, or styles of imprisonment. Passion, aggress
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