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What is to suffer?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 11/12/2022

Suffering has many associated meanings in English - everything from a paper cut to roasting in Hell for eternity. H.H. the Dalai Lama replaced "suffering" in one of his talks with "unsatisfactoriness" which seemed to make it clearer. This allows smelling a donut, then immediately wanting one even though you are not hungry, to be classed as "unsatisfactoriness" and thus with suffering. In this case you have desire (and a related suffering) for something you don't have and don't need but want. Suffering therefore can be seen as the outcome of any desire, no matter how small.

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Waldo Mayer

Lvl 13
2y ago

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