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Chapter-4 Eight Sufferings of life
Suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. It refers to the fundamental unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of life. Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat or distress faced in one's individual life. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.
According to Buddhist sutras, suffering is divided into three main categories.
The first category is suffering of painful experiences. This includes the physical and mental sufferings of birth, aging, illness, dying- distress from what is not desirable.
The second category is suffering of pleasant or happy experiences changing to unpleasant when the causes and conditions that produced the pleasant experiences cease.
The last category is suffering of conditioned experience. This includes a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence, all forms of life, because all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance.
Ultimately, Buddist teachings mention that there are eight sufferings on the whole.
Suffering is the one of the marks of our existence.
1. Birth- We live inside the womb in darkness and experience heat and cold as well as pressures of confinement. At that phase, we are uncomfortable adapting to be comfortable. We feel great pain while coming out of the darkness to see the world.
2. Aging- We eventually grow by age but we become dependent and many health issues interpret our lifestyles, sometimes it suffers us in many different ways like becoming deaf, blind and illnesses grip our bodies.
3. Sickness- We fall ill in many different aspects which primarily includes the physical and mental well-being and then the emotions of life that we're exhausted and unable to escape the torment.
4. Death- At the end of the last stages of life, after all the suffering, death approaches and torns us and our soul apart from our bodies.
5. Encountering the unloved- We constantly meet people whom we dislike or resent because of many reasons that to be enlisted which ultimately results in sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.
6. Separation from the beloved- Our loved ones will inevitably leave us at some point of our life. Everything we encounter in life is temporary and according to the time, everything changes and makes us regret our lives more than anything.
7. Not getting what we want- We have many desires and plans for different destinations but they're far beyond our reach.
8. Five Clinging Aggregates- Impression(Form), Sensation, Perception, Mental formations and Consciousness are the five factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging. They are also explained as the five factors that constitute and explain a sentient being’s person and personality. We are entangled by these in our body and mind and unable to escape.
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Suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. It refers to the fundamental unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of life. Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat or distress faced in one's individual life. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.
According to Buddhist sutras, suffering is divided into three main categories.
The first category is suffering of painful experiences. This includes the physical and mental sufferings of birth, aging, illness, dying- distress from what is not desirable.
The second category is suffering of pleasant or happy experiences changing to unpleasant when the causes and conditions that produced the pleasant experiences cease.
The last category is suffering of conditioned experience. This includes a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence, all forms of life, because all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance.
Ultimately, Buddist teachings mention that there are eight sufferings on the whole.
Suffering is the one of the marks of our existence.
1. Birth- We live inside the womb in darkness and experience heat and cold as well as pressures of confinement. At that phase, we are uncomfortable adapting to be comfortable. We feel great pain while coming out of the darkness to see the world.
2. Aging- We eventually grow by age but we become dependent and many health issues interpret our lifestyles, sometimes it suffers us in many different ways like becoming deaf, blind and illnesses grip our bodies.
3. Sickness- We fall ill in many different aspects which primarily includes the physical and mental well-being and then the emotions of life that we're exhausted and unable to escape the torment.
4. Death- At the end of the last stages of life, after all the suffering, death approaches and torns us and our soul apart from our bodies.
5. Encountering the unloved- We constantly meet people whom we dislike or resent because of many reasons that to be enlisted which ultimately results in sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.
6. Separation from the beloved- Our loved ones will inevitably leave us at some point of our life. Everything we encounter in life is temporary and according to the time, everything changes and makes us regret our lives more than anything.
7. Not getting what we want- We have many desires and plans for different destinations but they're far beyond our reach.
8. Five Clinging Aggregates- Impression(Form), Sensation, Perception, Mental formations and Consciousness are the five factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging. They are also explained as the five factors that constitute and explain a sentient being’s person and personality. We are entangled by these in our body and mind and unable to escape.
@IreneSanOh
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Follow #Irene_San_Oh
#buddhism #buddhismquotes #life #selfdiscovery
#poems #poetry #oneliners #quote #stories #qotd #quoteoftheday #wordporn #quotestagram #wordswag #wordsofwisdom #inspirationalquotes #writeaway #thoughts #positivevibes #inspiration #instawriters #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writersofindia #igwriters #igwritersclub #authorsofinstagram #author
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