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Dukkha covers all the problems we cause ourselves in all the ways we experience them -- it is often simply translated as "suffering" but that does not cover the original meaning. In the Buddha's day it was a word that took its meaning from context and while it could simply mean suffering, it could mean specific forms of suffering (frustration, confusion, unrequited love, the burning of lust, greed, hatred, anguish), cover all forms of suffering, or in its most technical sense could mean the inherent unsatisfactoriness of our normal understanding of the world -- an understanding in which we tend to feel that what makes us happy now should give us lasting happiness.
Nirvana is the experience of a different sort of life, when, having understood the true nature of our existence, and the ways in which we make ourselves suffer through our habitual view of the world, we are able to let go of those old habits, quit clinging to those old ways of being, and live in the moment unattached to the things that make us suffer.
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Who is more popular radiohead or nirvana?
Nirvana
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I - Kurt Nilsen album - was created in 2003-09.
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Who is better Nirvana or The Smashing Pumpkins?
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When was Passage to Nirvana created?
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What does dukkha mean?
A central term in Buddhism which is not directly translatable in english. It's a type of unease. Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are dukkha; association with what is not loved is dukkha, separation from what is loved is dukkha, not getting what is wanted is dukkha. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are dukkha.
What is the first noble truth?
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What is the word that buddhists use for suffering?
"dukkha"
What is the bengali's sorrow sorrow?
Dukkher dukkha
What is annata and dukkha and the other one?
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What zen Buddhism share with general Buddhism?
The ultimate aim of Buddhism is to evolve beyond the realm of samsara; ie. to permanently end suffering (dukkha). Just like there are thousand types of car to arrive at a destination, there are thousand of ways to attain nirvana - to end existence in samsara or to end dukkha. Zen is just one of the ways; perhaps a more difficult path towards enlightenment- whatever is difficult always bear better result; so perhaps a quicker way to enlightenment.
What is a sentence with nirvana?
After years of searching for inner peace, she finally found nirvana in the practice of meditation.
What is Celtic for nirvana?
Nirvana has no translation.
What is duka in yoga?
Dukkha is a fascinating word in the worlds of Yoga and Buddhism.
A band beginning with N?
nirvana nirvana
Who is more popular radiohead or nirvana?
Nirvana
Budda's word for release from pain and selfishness?
virtue and compassion
