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Suffering, unsatisfactoriness

dukkha
Insight (vipassanā) Core — needs to be understood Stage 1 of 8

That nothing we can experience really carries us — from bodily pain through inadequacy and strain to the restlessness that remains even inside the pleasant.

On the path: 1 · The opening question — What problem does the teaching examine? Dukkha, changeability, wholesome and unwholesome, intention and action, refuge, generosity. → to this stage in the learning path
In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of four · Seeing directly

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Passages where dukkha occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

  • Narrative literature · Udānavarga · Sanskrit

    duṣpravrajyam.durabhiramam.duradhyāvasitā.gṛhāḥ / duhkhā.asamāna.saṃvāsā.duhkhāś.ca.upacitā.bhavāḥ //[.duhkhāsamāna.saṃvāsā.]

  • Tipiṭaka · an3.61 · English

    Jātipi dukkhā, jarāpi dukkhā, (…) maraṇampi dukkhaṁ, sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsāpi dukkhā, appiyehi sampayogo dukkho, piyehi vippayogo dukkho, yampicchaṁ na labhati tampi dukkhaṁ. Saṅkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā. Rebirth is suffering; old age is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress are suffering; being coupled with the disliked is suffering; separation from the liked is suffering; not getting what you wish for is suffering. In brief, the five grasping aggregates are suffering.

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  • Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Dutiyo bhāgo) · Pāli

    537 . Jātiādīnaṃ nicchayā ti ye te ariyasaccāni niddisantena bhagavatā ‘‘jātipi dukkhā, jarāpi dukkhā, maraṇampi dukkhaṃ, sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsāpi dukkhā, appiyehi sampayogo dukkho, piyehi vippayogo dukkho, yampicchaṃ na labhati tampi dukkhaṃ, saṃkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā’’ti (vibha. 190) dukkhaniddese dvādasa dhammā, ‘‘yāyaṃ taṇhā ponobbhavikā nandīrāgasahagatā tatratatrābhinandinī. Seyyathidaṃ, kāmataṇhā, bhavataṇhā, vibhavataṇhā’’ti (vibha. 203) samudayaniddese tividhā taṇhā, ‘‘yo tassāyeva taṇhāya asesavirāganirodho cāgo paṭinissaggo mutti anālayo’’ti (vibha.

  • Arthaśāstra · Arthaśāstra · Sanskrit

    KAZ08.3.14/ dveṣyatā śatru.vedanaṃ duḥkha.āsaṅgaś ca kopaḥ //

  • Dzogchen · Lama Yangtik Homage · English

    སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན་འབྱུང་མེ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས། ། dukngal künjung mé tsok kyi Pacify the fires of suffering and origination ཡོངས་སུ་གདུངས་བ་ཞི་བར་མཛོད། ། yongsu dungwa zhiwar dzö That cause us such torment, རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཤིང་རྟ་ཡི། ། tendrel chunyi shingta yi And destroy the twelve interdependent links, འཕང་ལོ་འདྲ་བ་གཞིག་ཏུ་གསོལ། ། panglo drawa zhik tu sol Which are like the wheels of a chariot.

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