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Suffering : TormentSuffering is any unwanted[?] condition and the corrresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure.In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes. Related terms are sadness and grief. Some view anger as a type of suffering. Boredom, or ennui (a French word, from Old French[?] enui) is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Temporarily being in a situation of boredom may also be felt as a waste of time, but then it is usually considered worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that boredom is caused by having too much time.
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In Buddhism, suffering is called dukkha. The fundamental principles of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, describe dukkha and a method of ending it.
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment[?], 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffering":
Similarly, the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, defines "torture" as a crime against humanity as involving "suffering":
"Suffering belongs to the discipline of all Christ's followers (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 3:4; Philippians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 5:10; 1 Peter 2:20 f.; 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:13, 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 5:10). Such suffering is called a suffering for God's or Christ's sake (Jeremiah 15:15; Acts 9:16; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12). This fellowship in suffering unites us with the saints of God in all times (James 5:10), and is indeed a fellowship with the Lord Himself (Philippians 3:10), who uses this discipline to mold us more and more according to His character."1 (http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/Topic/Suffering)
An alternative meaning of "suffer" is "to allow".
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For pieces of jade, or banners, or curious cuttings of ivory.
Upon their roseleaf skin,
And long to soothe their lily.html">lily-fingered hands.
I am seized with longings unutterable,
That beauty.html">Beauty's not always a star,
Chrysanthemum-clad and lily-sheathed;
And peeps from street-corners
Of the maid with the golden.html">golden curls,
And with a change of mood I charge the elegant ladies
And thus tear from their flowery bodies
To deck the less fervid beauty of my friend.
night.html">night.html">Night and Day
The waters of the river flow swiftly at Limehouse Hole,
Past beautiful steel ships and tawny sails,
One body of dire endeavour.
This thing is broken into a thousand delicacies,
Make happy discord of the day's harsh harmonies.
Of a Night in War-Time
Upon a night I sat behind my shop,
The upright Ho Ling, the grave Cheng Huan,
Together with the maid of the golden curls,
And two pale Englishmen, Bill Hawkins and Jack Brown.
We sat beneath the lantern, and drank our tchah in fellowship,
And the moon rose and mated with the soft smells of my store,
Of things forgotten or lost, or long despaired of.
Friendship bound us together, and we sat late,
While men.html">men in another land
Drunk with the wicked words of the wicked lords of men.
A love.html">Love Lesson
Last night I dreamed of the maid with yellow curls.
And we two were alone, freed from the laws of day.
I took from her her clothing, garment by garment,
White petals of a flower.
As often I had wished, till all of her was mine.
Then I was sad, for nothing was left to love.
And gave her back her thoughts, one by one,
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