Search results for: "Dukkha"

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  2. Training Your Selves
     … We were talking today about the translation of dukkha sometimes as unsatisfactoriness. It’s a very unsatisfactory translation. The implication there is that if you could learn to be satisfied with these things, then there wouldn’t be any suffering, but again, that’s not what the Buddha taught. As long as you identify with these things, even when you tell yourself to accept … 
  3. Respect for Heedfulness
     … And so for the purpose of learning how to get to Nibbana, the Buddha has us focus on pain, suffering, stress - however you want to translate dukkha. If we can understand how the mind puts suffering together, we begin to untangle all the mind’s attachments, all the ways it makes and creates unnecessary problems for itself. At the same time we start opening … 
  4. A Connoisseur of Happiness
     … So when the Buddha talked about dukkha, suffering or stress, he wasn’t just saying that life is miserable and all you can do is accept the fact. He was saying that there is suffering but it doesn’t have to be there. There’s the suffering of the three characteristics, which is inherent in fabricated things. But on top of that is the … 
  5. Chanting Before Meditation
     … This second summary is a teaching on dukkha, or suffering. The monk asks the king, “Do you have a recurring illness?” And the king does—what they called wind illness, which back in those days meant shooting pains going through the body. He says, “Sometimes I’m lying in my bed, filled with pain; my courtiers are standing around, saying, ‘Maybe he’ll die … 
  6. The Same but Different, but the Same
     … stress, pain, discontent, however you want to translate the word dukkha. If it weren’t for that stress and suffering, we wouldn’t be here. We wouldn’t need to practice. So that’s what we have in common to begin with. But the individual sufferings we have and the different tactics we have for creating suffering—we don’t think of them as … 
  7. Admirable Intentions
     … All of the four noble truths have their duties: *Dukkha—*suffering, stress, pain—is to be comprehended. Its cause is to be abandoned. Its cessation is to be realized. And the path to that cessation is something you develop. You don’t simply watch the mind as it gathers and then falls apart, and say, “Oh, I’ve learned something about inconstancy.” If the … 
  8. Do You Want to Stop Suffering?
     … All you have to assume is that stress-and-suffering—the Pali word is dukkha—is a problem and it weighs down in the mind. It’s real. And it has a cause. And there are things you can do to put an end to it by putting an end to the cause. That’s it. The question is: Do you want to put … 
  9. The First Noble Truth
     … When he explains the truth of suffering—he uses the word dukkha, which can cover everything from really heavy suffering down to very subtle burdens on the heart—he first lists different kinds of suffering: aging, illness, death, being separated from what we like, having to live with what we don’t like, not getting what we want. Those are all forms of suffering … 
  10. Preparing to Die Well
     … So that puts together the teachings on illness and dukkha: stress and suffering. The third summary: The world has nothing of its own. One has to pass on leaving everything behind. The king says, “What do you mean? I have stores of gold and silver. So how can you say the world has nothing of its own?” Ratthapala says, “Can you take those stores … 
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