DUKKHA Definition & Meaning

dukkha

[ doo-kuh ]

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Buddhism.

the first of the Four Noble Truths, that all human experience is transient and that suffering results from excessive desire and attachment.

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(in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things are suffering, due to the desire to seek permanence or recognize the self when neither exist: one of the three basic characteristics of existence Sanskrit wordduhkha Compare anata anicca

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Origin of dukkha¹

From Pali

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Origin of dukkha¹

Pali, literally: suffering, illness

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Conflating Buddhism with a science of happiness creates a perpetuum mobile of self-inflicted dukkha, suffering.

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It was the Buddha who said, “Life is dukkha – suffering”.

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All these things tend towards the contradictory and therefore dukkha – or, if you prefer, the annoying.

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In Buddhism, anicca is one of the three signs of existence, the others being dukkha, or suffering, and anatta, or non-selfhood.

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The connection between dharma work and undoing racism work is the first noble truth — that there is dukkha, suffering.

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