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In the extreme situation, to the Buddhist it was the relinquishment of the world of suffering and agony, of duhkha, and he did it by stepping into the selfless blank of Nirvana.
Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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In the extreme situation, to the Buddhist it was the relinquishment of the world of suffering and agony, of duhkha, and he did it by stepping into the selfless blank of Nirvana.
There has been a great misunderstanding and deliberate misreading of the fourfold society that the ancients saw Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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In general, there are obstacles of various kinds producing misery, or duhkha of various types.
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The second truth, this also is the origin of pain in the world of living beings, identifies thirst trishna or selfish desire arising from attachment as the root of duhkha.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.”
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.”
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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When he says, This also is the stopping of pain the Third Noble Truth, the Tathagata is merely reporting that he has seen how some men and women escape duhkha.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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The second truth, this also is the origin of pain in the world of living beings, identifies thirst trishna or selfish desire arising from attachment as the root of duhkha.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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When he says, This also is the stopping of pain the Third Noble Truth, the Tathagata is merely reporting that he has seen how some men and women escape duhkha.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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The commentator explains that khatwam samarudhah Tibra duhkha-grastah.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
likeflannel commented on the word duhkha
"suffering is perhaps the most common translation for the Sanskrit word duhkha, which can also be translated as imperfect, stressful, or filled with anguish. "
September 1, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word duhkha
It's also frequently rendered as unsatisfactoriness.
September 1, 2009