Dukkha

In Buddhism, dukkha (or duhkha) refers to the "truth" that life is unsatisfactory, even miserable. The word comes from Sanskrit. Dukkha is part of the Four Noble Truths:

''All of life involves dukkha.

The other three Noble Truths explain the origins of dukkha; the means of eliminating Dukkha, is known as the Noble Eightfold Path. Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha repeatedly stated that the only purpose of Buddhism is to seek the cessation of dukkha. He refused to speculate about the metaphysical implications of this philosophy.

duhkha A Buddhist term, rendered into English as sorrow, suffering, affliction, pain, anxiety, uncomfortableness. (Skt. duḥkha; Tib. sdug bsngal; Pali dukkha). Its literal meaning is closer to out of joint or dislocation. It is the first of the Four Noble Truths, and in Yogacara analyses, refers to conditioned existence, or contaminated dharmas (āsrava-dharma); manifest existence, etc. There are lists of two, three, four, five, eight, and ten categories; the two are internal, i. e. physical and mental, and external, i. e. attacks from without. The four are birth, growing old, illness, and death. The eight are these four along with the pain of parting from the loved, of meeting with the hated, of failure in one's aims, and that caused by the five skandhas.

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• At Access to Insight:
  • Wings to Awakening Section 3.H.ii: The First Truth
  • Dukkha