# In the Second Noble Truth, the Buddha explains the four causes of the third suffering. Our attachment to sense pleasure is the first cause of suffering. However, the Buddha was not trying to teaching about avoiding sense pleasure. Just that we should simply not be controlled by our desires. Our attachment to views and opinions is the second cause of suffering. Again, there is nothing wrong with having views and opinions. We all do. This becomes suffering for ourselves and others when we become attached. The third cause of suffering is our attachment to traditions, religious practices and ethical behaviors. .
The fourth cause of suffering is the one that is the most unrelenting. It is our attachment to self "who we think we are, how we want others to be, and how we want life to treat us. Some people expect life to make them happy; others expect life to make them miserable. Our emotions, and how we view the world and experience life, flow from this attachment.
The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance that accompanies them. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and all of objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are feelings of desire, passion, eagerness, pursue of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable. Which will always mean that great suffering will follow. Objects of attachment also includes the idea of a "self" which is a delusion. The Buddha believed that we call "self" is just an imagined being, and we are merely a part of the never-ending becoming of a universe.
The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining nirodha. Nirodha means the blocking out of sensual cravings and conceptual attachment, and extinguishes all forms of clinging.
