## Knowing Each One Three Ways

For each of these four truths, my understanding deepened in three steps. Take suffering.

First, I saw clearly. This is suffering.

Then I understood. This is something to be fully grasped.

Then I knew. I have fully grasped it.

The same three steps applied to all four.

Suffering. Recognize it. Understand it. Know it.

Its cause. Recognize it. Let it go. Be free of it.

Its ending. Recognize it. Experience it. See it.

The path. Recognize it. Develop it. Live it.

As long as my understanding of these four truths, in all three steps, across all twelve points, wasn't completely clear, I didn't claim to be fully awakened. But once it was completely clear, then I knew I had woken up fully, with nothing left to do. And the certainty settled in me. My freedom can't be shaken. This is the final birth.