Anonymous ID: b4064b Nov. 30, 2020, 8:47 a.m. No.11842131   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2147 >>2172

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What is the noble truth of suffering?

 

Birth is suffering; ageing is suffering; illness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unloved is suffering; separation from the loved is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

 

And what is the noble truth of the origin of suffering?

 

With ignorance as condition volitional formations come to be. With the volitional formations as condition, consciousness; with consciousness as condition, name-and-form; with name-and-form as condition, the six sense bases; with the six sense bases as condition, contact; with contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving come to be; with craving as condition, clinging; with clinging as condition, the process of becoming; with the process of becoming as condition, birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering. This is called the noble truth of the origin of suffering.