The “Four Noble Truths” are a core teaching of Buddhism that identify the nature of suffering, its cause, and the path to end it.  The service will reflect on the relevance of those truths to our lives today.  We will then imagine a parallel starting place to our inquiry into existence.  We will look at the truth of joyousness (versus the truth of suffering), as an innate characteristic of being alive.  And Michael will postulate several “root causes” of joyousness, drawing a parallel to the root causes of suffering named by the Buddha.  He will then make the case that the experience of joyousness can be expanded, the Third Noble Truth, but inverted, and that there is a path to joyousness just like there is a path to the end of suffering.