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“The Range of Suffering”, Once one learns to rid themselves of the two…
“The Range of Suffering”
The Dukkha:
Life is closely tied to the dukkha. It refers to the basic disappointment in our lives, which is the lives of everyone accept the enlightened ones.
Life ends in one place or one body and we are reincarnated in another body.
This is a continuous loop of rebirth is called
samsara
meaning “the wandering”.
Rebirth can occur in many different realms, the realms of torment, animal realm, the human realm, and realms of celestial bliss.
The Buddha says the dukkha is the only real spiritual problem, he teaches suffering and the end of suffering,
the dukkha
, and its cessation
Death doesn’t bring the end of the dukkha. Life doesn’t stop with death.
Individuals striving to complete the end of the dukkha, cannot just settle with basic human accomplishments, they must free themselves from samsara
**The Noble Eightfold Path"
“The Causes of Suffering”
An important part of the Buddha teachings focuses on laying down "the truth of the origin of the dukkha"
The buddha found that the origin of the dukkha is located within oursleves, in a sickness that makes up our being, causes disorder in our minds, and impairs our relationships with others and the world
The sign of this sickness is seen in our tendency to choose mental states called
kilesas
(translation= defilements)
Greed (lobha)-
is self-centered desire, the desire for pleasure and material goods, drive for survival, need to be the best
Aversion (dosa)
- describes one's response to denial, which is often expressed as rejection, irritation, condemnation, hatred, enmity, anger, and violence
to gain freedom from suffering, we must eliminate defilements
One root holds all defilements in place is
ignorance (avijja)
Delusion (moha)
- means mental darkness, a thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding
“Cutting Off the Causes of Suffering”
To free ourselves completely and fully from suffering we have to eliminate it by root, which means eliminating ignorance
We need knowledge, a form of knowing called
wisdom (pañña),
which helps correct the distorting work of ignorance
To acquire wisdom, it must be cultivated by following the path,
the middle way (majjhima patipada)
, which avoids the two extremes, the two misguided attempts to gain freedom from suffering
Extreme #1: Indulgence in sense pleasures, attempting to get rid of dissatisfaction by satisfying desire
Extreme #2: The practice of self-mortification, the attempt to gain liberation by inflicting pain on one's body
Once one learns to rid themselves of the two extremes and find compromise between the two, they will be set on the path, the middle way, to free themselves from suffering