ABC
Religious texts
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- Awakening
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- Dependent origination
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- Four Noble Truths
- Happiness
- Heavens and hells
- Impermanence
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- Non-self
- Om (mani padme hum)
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- Self
- Suffering
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- Three-body doctrine
- Universal ruler
- Vesak
- Ye-dhamma formula
- Yoga
Suffering
Doctrines and rituals
The first of the Four Noble Truths teaches that suffering in life (Pa. dukkha) is inescapable. The Buddhist tradition distinguishes between three kinds of suffering: the first is biological (e.g. sickness, ageing, death), the second psychological (e.g. grief, misfortune), the third emotional (frustration, longing for someone).
Basically, all suffering is grounded in impermanence – of human existence as well as of all spiritual and physical pleasures. Everything changes; nothing remains the same. This is also why happiness is considered suffering, for happiness lasts but a moment in time, and will inevitably pass.
Voices
Jens Schlieter
Marcel Geisser
Yuka Nakamura
Bhante Tikino
Margrit Horlacher
Bhante Anuruddha
Thich Duc Tinh