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DUKKHA - suffering

Dukkha is a word describing the spectrum of unease from the

mildest discomfort of our coffee being too cold to the most
excruciating anguish or misery such as losing a child.

Much of life is, by default, uncomfortable, making dukkha a

natural part of life. We will age, get sick, lose those that we love

and likely have many too-cold coffees.

Also, because of impermanence, nothing is reliable as a source

of happiness or satisfaction. When we RESIST impermanence

and think life shouldn't be happening the way that it is, it causes

dukkha. This in turn causes us to crave, to cling, to attach, to
deny in attempts to fight reality.

The aim is not the ceasing of dukkha but ceasing to react to it

with harmful behaviors and reactions that only cause more pain.

This is the suffering of suffering, called dukkha-dukkha. Ever
been mad about being mad or sad about being sad?

“People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.”

-Neil Strauss

ANATTA - not-self

This one is not intuitive but don't get stuck on it. Essentially, we

are not created in a vacuum. We are a blend of our body,

thoughts, emotions, culture, biology, genes, and experiences, all
of which we don't really have as much control over as we may

sometimes feel. They all make up our experience we call SELF,

yet there is not one solid "I" in our heads at mission control
center.

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