Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering, dissociation from the loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering: in short the five categories affected by clinging are suffering.
2) Cause of Suffering (Samudayasatya)
suffering is caused by desire (tr.s.n.â) and by ignorance (avidyâ), The cause of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things.
3) Cessation of Suffering (Nirodhasatya)
The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. Suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion.
4) Path to End Suffering (Mârgasatya)
There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism)
- Right Knowledge (or Views), samyagdr.s.t.i,
- Right Resolve, samyaksan.kalpa,
- Right Speech, samyagvâk,
- Right Conduct (or Action), samyakkarma,
- Right Livelihood, samyagjîva,
- Right Effort, samyagvyâyâma,
- Right Mindfulness, samyaksmr.ti, and
- Right Meditation (or Concentration), samyaksamâdhi.
A wise man finds no delight in heavenly pleasures. The disciple of The Buddha takes delight in the destruction of Craving. [Dhammapada 187]
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