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THE FIRST NOBLE TURTH

Suffering

The teaching of suffering is a distinct characteristics in the Buddhist doctrine. All sentient beings would have their own experience on this issue, but we often under-estimate suffering and pretend that it does not exist. By blind-folding to suffering, we are only decreasing our chance to understand the root and to find a cure to the problem. Now, let us examine the following two categories of suffering.

- birth
- old age
- sickness
- death
- association with unpleasant persons and
conditions
- separation from beloved ones and pleasant
conditions
- not getting what one desires
- grief, lamentation, distress etc.

( all such forms of physical and mental suffering)

- A happy feeling and condition in life is not permanent. It changes sooner or later. When it changes, it produces pain, suffering and unhappiness. The impermanence nature in things produce this category of suffering.


Although there is suffering in life, a Buddhist should not be gloomy over it. Being impatient or angry at suffering does not remove it. On the contrary, what is necessary is the understanding of the question of suffering, how it comes about, and how to et rid of it, and then to work accordingly with patience, intelligence, determination and energy.

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