Dukkha
The concept of dukkha is fundamental in Buddhism.This Pali term isn't reducable to a single English word, but "pain", "suffering", "stress", "unsatisfactoriness", and "angst" have been used.
The first of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths (the statement of the fundamentals of Buddhism) states:
All of life involves dukkha.
The other three Noble Truths state the origin of dukkha, that it can be eliminated (the state of Nirvana, Sanskrit form, or nibbana, Pali form), and the Buddha's method for eliminating it, the Noble Eightfold Path).
The Buddha repeatedly stated that the only purpose of his system of thought was the cessation of dukkha, and refused to join in speculation about metaphysical subjects which would not advance this end.
- From the "Access to Insight" site
- Section 3.H.ii "The First Truth" of "Wings to Awakening"
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/modern/wings/3h2.html
- Section 3.H.ii "The First Truth" of "Wings to Awakening"
But
be somebody, if I shall get unto
the charity of the churches that
Jesus Christ; not as a passenger,
to me in the way, have gone before
from Smyrna, by the most worthy
with many others, Crocus, most
are come from Syria, and are gone
of God, I suppose you are not
them that I draw near, for they,
you: Whom it is fit that you
the day before the ninth of the,
unto the end, in the patience of
IGNATIUS TO THE PHILADELPHIANS.
warns them against division and schism.
IGNATIUS, who is also called
God the Father, and our Lord
in Asia; which has obtained mercy,
and rejoicing evermore in the passion
all mercy through his resurrection:
Jesus Christ, which is our eternal
they are at unity with the bishop.html">bishop,
and the deacons appointed according
he has settled according to his own
Spirit:
2 Which bishop I know obtained
not of himself, neither by men,
love of God the Father, and our
who by his silence is able to do
vain talk. For he is fitted to the
his mind towards God most happy,
virtue, and perfect; full of
and according to all the
children both of the light and of
doctrines; but where your shepherd
after.
6 For there are many wolves
with a false pleasure lead captive
God; but in the concord they shall
evil herbs which Jesus Christ does
the plantation of the Father. Not
among you, but rather all manner
and of Jesus Christ, are also with
shall with repentance return into
shall also be the servants of.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|