Sunday, March 6, 2011

Suffering

Suffering
There are three kinds of characteristics 1, Anicca 2, Dukkha, and Annatta. The Dhukkha is one of them. Dukkha is a Pali word. It is translated as unstisfactoriesness or pain.
The Buddha says; all conditional things are suffering. A person who knows suffering is on the way to purity, when the path to libration. That’s why a yogi who practices insight meditation shall realize suffering. For example, the suffering of the five aggregates; physical, feeling, perception, condition and consciousness.
The Buddha said “The biggest burden is the body.” We can figure out how we have to treat our body, as it is served as a body every day but it never ends. That’s why the Buddha pointed out that the biggest burden was khanda or physical body.
One has to find out how the body works. Therefore, there are the four great elements in it. They are fire, air, water and earth. As a result, if we make an effort to see the pain or unstisfactoriesness of the body there we could give up our body. As well as they want to give the body, they should also give up attachment to an identity.
On the other hand, the causes of sufferings are ignorance and craving. (Paticcasmupada) Therefore, we shall get rid of craving and ignorance by not caving in to craving, ignorance to wisdom.
Finally, we practice insight meditation to see suffering within ourselves. The truth is insight but we need reality as they are. In Buddhism these are the most importanct characteristics; Anicca,Dukkha and Anatta.