dukkha

• “Nik. 44 the word dukkha is replaced by sakkâya, individuality, which is apparently regarded as equivalent in meaning.”

  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

• “The word dukkha etymologically means a 'bitter space' and this seems to me to have echoes in such ideas as 'the dark night of the soul'.”

  lotusinthemud

• “I have always like comparing this to the Buddhist concept of "dukkha" or unsatisfactoriness, disquieted, uneasy .... the inherent wrongness of conscious life.”

  Karen Kisslinger: Is Human Life a Mental Illness?

• “Adherents claim that Buddhism is a very practical philosophy, which teaches us to focus our attention on personal experience, to determine what is the cause of our discontents ( "dukkha") and to find a way to liberate ourselves from these, all the while expressing "metta", which is universal, unconditional love, and "karuna", which roughly translates to "compassion", towards others.”

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• “One of the perennial problems in the interpretation of Buddhism is to fathom what Shakyamuni meant by "dukkha".”

  lotusinthemud

• “The Pali word is 'dukkha', and it does not just mean the agony of the body.”

  doggdot.us

• “Jaed Muncharoen Coffin: On the dukkha of bi-racial identity”

  Shambhala SunSpace » Andrea Miller

• “Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, explores with us the dukkha of bi-racial identity.”

  Shambhala SunSpace » Andrea Miller

• “Siddhartha taught that moral responsibility was an important tool for the prevention of dukkha or suffering.”

  Shambhala SunSpace » Andrea Miller

• “Lack" he says, "is my interpretation of the dukkha (suffering) that occurs due to our discomfort with and resistance to our shunyata (emptiness).”

  The Huffington Post: John Seed: Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective

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