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  2. Alone & Together
     … There’s a case in the Canon where a young monk is asked by some sectarians, “What is the result of action?” He says, “The result of action is dukkha”—which you can translate as pain, stress, suffering. The sectarians said, “We’ve never heard that from any other Buddhist monks. You’d better go check that with the Buddha.” So he does, and … 
  3. Beyond Natural Suffering
    There’s a fanciful definition of dukkha, or suffering, stress, in the commentary. I say it’s fanciful because it’s based on a technique that the commentary often uses to try to explain a Pali term by taking it apart into its supposed roots. In this case, dukkha is derived from words that mean a hub that doesn’t fit on an axle … 
  4. Three Perceptions
     … The same with dukkha-lakkhana and anatta-lakkhana: Those compounds don’t appear. This is not to say that the concepts of anicca, dukkha, and anatta don’t occur in the Canon; just that they’re not termed characteristics. They’re not compounded with the word “characteristic.” The words they are compounded with are perception, sañña —as in the perception of inconstancy, the perception … 
  5. You Are Not a Textbook
     … Why are they causing you suffering even though you don’t want to suffer? Why are they causing you stress even though you don’t want to experience stress? There are times when there is dukkha in your concentration. And it’s certainly not suffering, but it is stress. This is why we have to translate dukkha with that phrase, “stress and suffering,” to … 
  6. Examine Your Happiness
     … Lots of other terms he defines very precisely, but some of the really basic terms—mind/citta, happiness/sukha, and stress/dukkha—never get defined. The teaching is basically about training the mind to end stress and find true happiness, but of these terms, only “training” is defined. In the case of happiness and stress, he gives examples but he doesn’t provide a … 
  7. An End to Suffering
    The Buddha once said that all he taught was dukkha and the end of dukkha, stress and the end of stress, suffering and the end of suffering. That’s it. And his main teaching on suffering is that the causes for suffering lie within the mind: ignorance and craving. If you’re going to put an end to suffering, you’ve got to look … 
  8. In Context
     … And when you’re thinking about the Dhamma, you have to remember, as the Buddha said, that all he taught was suffering and stress, dukkha, and then the end of suffering and stress. So any other teaching you may run across, you ask yourself, “How does this fit into understanding suffering? How does it fit into developing the path to the end of suffering … 
  9. Feeding Frenzy: Dependent Co-arising
     … The Buddha talks about anicca, dukkha, and anatta, but he doesn’t use the word for characteristic—lakkhana—to go along with them. He uses the word perception or mental label: anicca-sañña, dukkha-sañña, anatta-sañña. You learn to label things as inconstant, stressful, not-self. The other word he connects with them is anupassana, or contemplation: aniccanupassana. To contemplate is to look … 
  10. Allowing the Breath to Spread
     … This right here gives you an important lesson in the Buddha’s teachings on dukkha, or suffering, stress. Some forms of suffering or stress are part of the three characteristics. In other words, everything conditioned is going to have some stress. There’s not much you can do about that. But there are other kinds of suffering that are based on craving. That’s … 
  11. Dealing with Pain
     … Here we are, trying to gain release from suffering, so why are we putting ourselves through pain? Well, even though the word for pain and suffering and stress is the same in Pali—it’s dukkha—the Buddha focused on one particular type of dukkha: not physical pain, mental pain. And the mental pain is caused by our own actions. We hold on to … 
  12. You’ve Got Friends
     … The word dukkha in Pali, in its everyday meaning, is just pain. Here the Buddha’s talking mainly about the mental pain we feel, which can be connected with physical pain in the present moment or with mental issues purely in the mind, old issues that hang on inside and weigh us down. Here the Buddha is offering us a path out. When you … 
  13. One Thing Only
     … So wherever there’s any stress or dukkha in any of its forms, you’ve got to look into what you’re doing. Then you can change what you’re doing and shape a different present: That’s the positive point. Now, because what you’re experiencing right now is a combination of different factors, that means you have to look and look again … 
  14. Truths Noble in the Heart
     … What is suffering, after all? What is stress – or however you want to translate dukkha? And what is the mind doing that’s giving rise to more stress and more suffering over and over again? Many people will want to look into this problem at some point in their lives. But again, it’s when you take this issue as the primary issue in … 
  15. Wisdom for Dummies
     … If there’s pain coming from past actions, it’s dukkha in the context of the three characteristics. It’s just part of the way things are. The suffering you’re adding, though, is dukkha in the four noble truths, which doesn’t have to be there. It comes from your craving, and that’s something you can do something about. There may be … 
  16. The Three Perceptions as Tools
     … The perceptions are inconstancy, anicca, stress or suffering, dukkha, and not-self, anattā. Sometimes you hear them referred to as three characteristics, but the Buddha himself never referred to them in that way. He was less interested in looking at the characteristics of what things are, or in making statements about reality out there, and was more interested in developing perceptions that will have … 
  17. The Mind Undefined
     … Your idea of what counts as *dukkha—*stress, suffering—gets more and more refined as your practice develops. The same with your mind: Your sense of your own mind gets more refined as you practice. And the same with true happiness: Your idea of what counts as genuinely happy will develop as you practice. This is why it’s good not to define these … 
  18. To Suffer Is an Active Verb
     … The author went on to say that, because the five aggregates cover all of our experience, maybe the word dukkha doesn’t mean “suffering.” Maybe it means “experience.” Other people have taken that idea and have run all over the place with it. But what the scholar said was not in line with what the Buddha said. Suffering, he said, is the five clinging … 
  19. What You Sense Directly
     … that dukkha—stress, pain, suffering—is something you do through your clinging. And the reason you cling is because you crave. But that craving can be put an end to, by developing the path. So you’ve got unskillful causes, the different kinds of craving, and skillful causes, the different factors of the path, and then the results of those two. That gives you … 
  20. Wisdom Requires Integrity
     … That’s how we get beyond suffering, stress, disturbance—all the greater and lesser forms of dukkha that weigh down the mind.
  21. A Matter of Life & Death
     … The word suffering, dukkha, or stress, as he uses it, has two basic meanings. There’s the stress of the three characteristics, which is everywhere in the conditioned realm. Then there’s stress in the context of the four noble truths, stress that comes from craving and ignorance. When he talks about putting an end to stress, that’s the one you put an … 
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