how direct understanding of the Four Noble Truths leads to the cessation of ignorance and the entire cycle of suffering.

"One becomes a Stream-enterer (Sotāpanna) only by understanding the Four Noble Truths. Without understanding them, can one become a Stream-enterer? So we need to understand: - The Four Noble Truths - The Five Aggregates - Dependent Origination Not knowing the Four Noble Truths is (ignorance) Not knowing the Five Aggregates is (ignorance) Misconceiving the Five Aggregates as beings, humans, devas, or brahmas is (ignorance) With wrong perception, who desires? (craving) Clinging to 'must have it' is (attachment) These three - ignorance, craving, attachment - which truth is this? (Truth of Origin) Is the Truth of Origin a person? A deva? A brahma? Sons and daughters? The Truth of Path knows the Truth of Origin correctly, not a self. The Path Truth is what knows. Where there is Origin as cause, don't the resultant aggregates arise? Are they beings or Five Aggregates? We only find aggregates. Can any being with aggregates escape aging, sickness, and death? Which truth is this? (Truth of Suffering) Isn't it taught that suffering comes from Origin? Look at the wheel of Dependent Origination: (1) is Origin (2) is Suffering (3) is Origin (4) is Suffering This is the path we've all traveled - with Origin and Suffering, these two truths. We only heard of the Four Noble Truths when the Buddha appeared. Path and Cessation were only heard after the Buddha's enlightenment. We came with Origin and Suffering. Like an ox going in circles, isn't Dependent Origination spinning? The Five Aggregates in section (2) - are they cause or effect? Is the effect to be abandoned or understood? It's to be understood! Examining the material aggregate during meditation - stiffness, pain, aching, burning, cold, pressure, dizziness, itching - aren't these all experienced? Are these happiness or suffering? We practice to understand the aggregates. Not one pleasant thing is found. In truth, isn't it all just impermanence? Beyond the nature of change and the nature of knowing, what else is there? Is change and destruction happiness or suffering? Is knowing and passing away happiness or suffering? Therefore, arising and passing is which truth? (Truth of Suffering) True knowledge is like light appearing. Ignorance is darkness. In darkness, can you see even a village? Think about it. When truly knowing suffering, does the ignorance that misconceives worldly happiness as true happiness persist? Ignorance ceases! When ignorance ceases, does craving still come? Does attachment come? Does kamma come? Don't the three types of Dependent Origination break? Doesn't the cycle of aggregates end? Isn't this called the Truth of Cessation?"