The Causes Of Suffering In Buddhism

1a&b. According to our lecture, the idea of our life is nothing but suffering comes from one of the four noble truth - Pali Dukkha - “This is dukkha: birth is painful, aging is painful, sickness is painful, death is painful, encountering what is not dear is painful, separation from what is dear is painful, not getting what one wants is painful. This psycho-physical condition is painful.” (Mv.I) said by Gotama, these painful things causing us to suffer. Those suffering are not our subjective experiences but part of the fundamental nature of our world (Knickelbine, M. 2011). In Buddhism, there are many kinds of suffering, we can categorize them into 8 types in 3 catalog. The three catalogs are – inherited suffering, suffering between the

One of the causes of “Suffering” in Buddhism is that our life are not eternal, we cannot have control of it, once we were born, we got into the cycle of transmigration, we could not maintain the same in our life, or our next life, or our next next life. Also, from the moment we were born, we have feelings, feelings are not suffering but we suffer with feelings. We are suffering from feelings because our feelings become a kind of craving. For instance, hungry itself is not suffering, it is a natural physiological reaction of our body, we need food for nutrition, but when we notice how delicious the food is and desire to eat more (this idea also called kama tanha), this grasping of desire becomes

According to the article, some anti-Muslim Buddhist group in Burma are using Buddhist teachings to encourage the passage of inhumane laws and violence. They claim that sometimes violence is needed in order to protect the nation. The teaching of noble truths and eightfold path of nonviolence, mindfulness, virtue and meditation are not emphasized by the Burmese culture, instead, they drum up hate and prejudice in Muslims. Just by looking at those Buddhist precept, if it is not necessary, it means that, unless they are threatened, or hunted by Muslim, they should not do any physical or mental harm to Muslim. At this point, they have betrayed the teachings, but in other point of view, for some of them, they have been taught the wrong teaching: they were taught that violence is a must to protect their nation and not to question the authority. They haven’t betrayed what they were taught, what they believed is the “Buddhism teachings”, but they betrayed the real Buddhism