Are these simple sentences right? They are about 4 noble truths, 3 characteristics, craving, etc
People argue whether &quot;suffering&quot; is the best translation. Perhaps it depends on context. I guess dukkha has range of meaning from (extreme) anguish to (chronic) unsatisfactoriness to (eventual) insufficiency.
And whose goal?
And is it possible that the goal varies -- at the beginning people are caught up in suffering and want to escape it. Perhaps later they're not suffering so much, and there's a slightly different goal i.e. &quot;liberation&quot; or &quot;unbinding&quot;.

The &quot;root&quot; poison is ignorance.

They're called &quot;clinging-aggregates&quot;. To the extent that the doctrine distinguishes &quot;craving&quot; from &quot;clinging&quot;, I think it's &quot;clinging&quot; to aggregates.

I think that tool is the noble eightfold path -- &quot;right view&quot; etc.
Seeing the three characteristics is an example of right view, Jhana is an example of adhicitta-sikkhā

Here I think I'd refer to the Dhammanusati and say, &quot;The doctrine is effective etc.&quot;.