Why the Buddha often talks about suffering .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
In the Four Noble Truths, the first Noble Truth the Buddha mentioned is the Noble Truth of Suffering, followed by the Noble Truths, and the last two bases (3- 4) are the solutions that the Buddha taught (practice) to end the suffering of human beings. born. Due to not digging deep into thinking about the deep teachings of the Buddha's teachings, many people wonder, even some people even think that Buddhism is "cynical" away from reality. Because of the teaching that he often spoke of, it is the suffering of human existence.
Why did the Buddha talk about suffering?
With compassion, after the Buddha fully enlightened (Pure Meditation) he fully understood the Three Heavenly Yard and the Great Heavenly Yard and saw clearly the lives of people living here and there in the cycle of samsara. So he invented many methods of cultivation (salvation) to help people enlighten - liberate suffering in the six paths. In it, the Four Noble Truths are the first Passing Discourse the Buddha taught to four fellow practitioners at that time.
So what did the Four Noble Truths say? And how does the Buddha address human suffering in this doctrine? Let's first time find out the basic content of this Fa.
The Four Noble Truths also have other names as the Four Noble Truths, the Four Noble Truths and later scholars along with Buddhist researchers also call the Four Noble Truths, the Four Noble Truths and the King of Dhammas. .
Before going into the inner investigation of the Four Noble Truths known as the Four Noble Truths. Let's consider the two words suffering-base.
According to the Buddhist dictionary of scholar Doan Trung Con, the Chinese word used in terms of nouns means: Truth needs to be examined, practiced; Truth, righteous ethics - worth bringing people to attack - liberation chemistry. In terms of adjectives, the base means: mature, righteous, honest.
In the Buddhist sutras, the truth also has two surfaces to indicate, that is (the dual base and the base):
1- (The Second Emperor) the truth for mortal people to practice recuperating, calling is Customs, The Emperor.
2- (Brackets) for renunciation, fake Holy goods to study. This truth is sublime, ultimately, immaculate, uncontrollable, so called the base-base, Won the meaning of the base, the First meaning.
Also according to Doan Trung Con, in terms of human suffering and Suffering, it means that when people are born, they are all subject to suffering: tribulation, illness, depression, and the pressing advantages of body and mind. Sanskrit read as Dau-Khư (Duh-kha).
Buddhism teaches that: Sentient beings suffer, with four sufferings: birth, old age, sickness, death due to ignorance, confusion, greed, attachment, desire. To stop suffering, stop the desire, that is, perform the four Noble Truths of the Buddha and destroy the twelve Causes and Conditions (1) that are attached to each other and generate suffering.
So suffering with happiness (happiness).
Suffering is the first of the four truths that the Buddha teaches: 1 / Suffering (duh-kha), 2 / Volume (trisna), 3 / Cessation (moksa), 4 / Dao, ie the Noble Eightfold (marga).
These four truths are the Four Noble Truths, this is the teaching to eliminate suffering. People, if people do not practice for enlightenment, they still suffer. Because suffering has many terms that bring about: Tam suffering, Six suffering, Bat suffering.
Please simplify the above suffering so that we can ponder the experience.
Three suffering: As people, because of ignorance, they want to do suffering, so they suffer from suffering from suffering after suffering after suffering, which is fire and fire; What is hunger, thirst, sickness ... this suffering adds to another forever, but the body must be ceaselessly optimistic. The second suffering is corruption, because people, things that we like, then perish the times, that cause we feel suffering. The third suffering, which in the Buddhist teachings is called suffering, which is the suffering when realizing everything in this realm is impermanent, moving and changing forever, so the mind generates suffering.
As for the Six suffering (six suffering) in the Sutta (Du Old) book 44 has mentioned six suffering below:
1- Human suffering: The excuse of creating evil, causing evil.
2- Suffering results: The result-suffering brings.
3- Bridge of suffering: Suffering because of the tendency to follow money of material, position, position ...
4- Need for suffering: Suffering because of taking care of the things that we have.
5- Selflessness suffering: Suffering about greed, having this dish to pray for other dishes do not know bored.
6 - Variation of suffering: Suffering, grief because of corruption in the body, wife and children, (husband and children), houses, possessions, titles that suffer.
Along with the Three Suffering, the Six Suffering also has the Eight Suffering, because everyone has to suffer these eight sufferings that are: Birth suffering, Lao suffering, Sickness, Death suffering, Monk suffering, (ie not wanting, but living in close to the enemy but suffer); Loving and suffering separation (that is, separating from the one you love, bringing in daily memory should suffer); Praying unbearable suffering (that is the desire to desire but not to be); The five warm (aggregates) are miserable (that is, the five items that are united to be human (materiality, feeling, perception, onion, consciousness), if we don't get along with each other, there are too many dishes that suffer too much. identity) but it takes too much care, too hard; dreaming too much is also suffering; mind hard work, plans, too much, too hard ...
Those are the eight common sufferings of the world, plus the aforementioned sufferings that make people truly suffer without ceasing, which in Buddhist teachings is called "suffering sea" or broken suffering.
So, the suffering-soles that the Buddha taught that is one of the four truths of the Four Noble Truths: (Suffering, Practice, Cessation, Path). According to the Buddhist teachings, the results of samsara in the Three Realms are all suffering, without any peaceful nature. Li decided to be true, so called Suffering.
According to Buddhist teachings, Suffering is also understood here: Suffering has two lines, namely, Thanh and Trien. The suffering of ignorance is ordinary suffering because of craving, wanting, and suffering about objects. Like the three suffering, the six suffering, the bowl of suffering mentioned above.
The High Suffering is the suffering of Hanh. Because of the religion, he suffers to see the truth: Suffering, no, impermanence, no-self. Such cultivation is to pass the hardship to enter the four above-mentioned principles, then be liberated, and transcended from the cycle of suffering samsara. So this suffering is the noble austerities of the Enlightened Path - liberation. (Suffering here only the meticulous means An Lac Hanh).
To treat suffering diseases for those who devote their hearts to cultivate liberation from the Three Realms. Whenever someone came to ask about the religion, the Buddha said to them:
- I do not ask about your religion, your stance, but only what disease do you have?
- I just instructed you about the disease and the cure, that is suffering and how to stop suffering!
To educate sentient beings about the suffering of samsara (life here and death) in continuity of life. After becoming a moral, the Blessed One came to live at the Garden of Loc-wild (Mrgdava) near to the Ba complaint (Besnares) He turned the dharma theory on the Four Noble Truths (ie Four Noble Truths, Four Noble Truths). Content The Four Noble Truths pointed out very clearly by the Buddha are:
1 / Suffering: Life is full of suffering, humans and devas (the gods here are those who live in the elves for so long. thousand years of life) but also within the law of samsara and suffering when enjoying all the blessings you have created.
2 / The ultimate practice: Sentient beings suffer because of desire, jealousy, jealousy, selfishness, but become afflicted, evil due to ignorance gathered from many generations and many lives, creating bad and evil karma endlessly. called the base set.
3 / Killing soles: So worry that unless suffering, an end to negativity distention (by methods religious)
4 / sole director: Want except suffering, an end to suffering, they must enforce the Eightfold (ie eight main road They are: Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Life, Right Diligence, Mindfulness, Right Concentration. Those who practice according to the Four Noble Truths become Arhat, enter Nirvana.
Desperate for a conclusion
As mentioned above, the Four Noble Truths are the Buddha's Dharma that show the root cause of human suffering and are also caused and received by man. If the first 2 Noble Truths, which are considered to be the causes leading people to suffering, then the last 2 Noble Truths (the Noble Truth of the Noble Truths) are the Buddhist cultivation methods taught to end suffering.
So according to Buddhism (if well known enough), human suffering does not derive from socio-economic (material life) but from lust (desire) to ignorance (not insight) to then greed, anger, ignorance (greed, anger, ignorance) motivate creating ambition, desire to create karma (ie desire manifests into action called karma). And of course bad karma forces people to take its consequences (suffering).
From this fact, the Buddhist teachings refer to the theory of ten conditions and conditions (ie, the 12 conditions in which the conditions revolve). Starting from Ignorance, leads to Formation, Consciousness, Name, Six Paths, Contact, Feeling, Love, Thu, Huu, Born, Lao Death This is a circle of links pointing to the cause of human suffering, which has been taught very clearly by the Buddha in the teachings. According to the Patriarchs taught, practitioners use: Right understanding, right thought, righteous karma, mindfulness ... to cut off the "head" of ignorance, or any of the 12 karmic conditions of this circle, then will free the suffering. This is the Noble truth that the Buddha taught in the Four Noble Truths.
To broaden the way to learn, on this article would like to give some comments and assessments of Dr. Peter D. Pantina on Buddhist teachings for us to ponder. Dr. D. Pantina, comes from a Christian family in the United States, but has studied Buddhism for more than 14 years in India and other countries in Asia. He is a profound scholar of the Dharma and has lectured in many parts of the world on the complete model of the Buddha-dharma and especially emphasized the essence of the very specific monopod Buddhist teachings, logical and systematic in the scientific view of the West.
Here are some comments and assessments of Dr. D.Santina in the book (Foundations of the Buddha Dharma) and he said that: nowadays in European and Western countries people think that the Buddha is very progressive, very reasonable and practical. Therefore, many people with respectable positions in Western society have a lot of feelings or have followed the Buddha Dharma. It is a Dharma astrophysicist in France, a famous psychologist at the University of Rome and many others also revealed Buddhism and followed the Buddha's teachings.
"One of the first things that Western people see the value of the Buddha Dharma is that the Buddha Dharma is not limited by any culture, is not attached to any society, lineage or people. any particular race ”.
“The Buddha-dharma is very easy to translate from one culture to another, because the Buddha-dharma focuses on internal (inner) practice rather than the practice of external rituals. The Buddha Dharma is well known for its analytical method in the fields of philosophy and psychology. What we want to talk about is that the Buddha has analyzed experience into many factors, the most basic of which is the Five ties (Groups, Five Aggregates) ”.
Assessing the Four Noble Truths, Dr. D.Santina said: “This profound teaching of the Buddha is actually very similar and very surprising between the Buddha's approach and the current science approach. great deal with knowledge. The Buddha emphasizes the importance of observing the object. In a sense, observation is the key to the Buddha's cognitive method. It can be said that observation has brought about the first of the Four Deep Truths, which is the Deep Truth about suffering in the heart. Again, at the last stage in the path (the Four Noble Truths) of the Buddha is that observation (watching) clarifies the Buddha's perception of the complete cessation of suffering ”.
Please add another remark of Professor Rhys Drd about the Buddhist enlightenment: “Whether a Buddhist or not a Buddhist, I have studied every major religious system in the world, in all I have not. Find a religion that has a more complete beauty than the Eightfold Path of the Buddha. All I have to do is arrange my lifestyle to fit the path ”(According to Buddha and Hi Teachinh p.160).
Buddhism is a treasure of wisdom, but to the Buddha, he just said: "I am just a guide," it is up to each person to go or not. Before passing away Nirvana, He taught the final words to his mortals: "You should take the teachings as teachers" and verify even My teaching, if you see the truth, do it and He does not force anyone. must follow this doctrine, And He only talks about the suffering of human life in the cycle of birth and death, the six paths of samsara, whoever wants to be liberated, then do it.
And in the Sutta of A-Ham, the Buddha affirms the above: "Whoever loves matter (feeling, perception, and consciousness), he also loves suffering". Once living in suffering and feeling like it, what is the hope for liberation? The pleasant attitude in suffering is called ignorance. “Ignorance is not knowing, not knowing what? Rupa is impermanent, but not knowing as materiality is impermanent ”. On the contrary, only wise people wish to get rid of suffering. “Who doesn't love the color. (feeling, perception, action, consciousness) will not like suffering. Anyone who does not love suffering will be liberated.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.14/11/2020.
Why did the Buddha talk about suffering?
With compassion, after the Buddha fully enlightened (Pure Meditation) he fully understood the Three Heavenly Yard and the Great Heavenly Yard and saw clearly the lives of people living here and there in the cycle of samsara. So he invented many methods of cultivation (salvation) to help people enlighten - liberate suffering in the six paths. In it, the Four Noble Truths are the first Passing Discourse the Buddha taught to four fellow practitioners at that time.
So what did the Four Noble Truths say? And how does the Buddha address human suffering in this doctrine? Let's first time find out the basic content of this Fa.
The Four Noble Truths also have other names as the Four Noble Truths, the Four Noble Truths and later scholars along with Buddhist researchers also call the Four Noble Truths, the Four Noble Truths and the King of Dhammas. .
Before going into the inner investigation of the Four Noble Truths known as the Four Noble Truths. Let's consider the two words suffering-base.
According to the Buddhist dictionary of scholar Doan Trung Con, the Chinese word used in terms of nouns means: Truth needs to be examined, practiced; Truth, righteous ethics - worth bringing people to attack - liberation chemistry. In terms of adjectives, the base means: mature, righteous, honest.
In the Buddhist sutras, the truth also has two surfaces to indicate, that is (the dual base and the base):
1- (The Second Emperor) the truth for mortal people to practice recuperating, calling is Customs, The Emperor.
2- (Brackets) for renunciation, fake Holy goods to study. This truth is sublime, ultimately, immaculate, uncontrollable, so called the base-base, Won the meaning of the base, the First meaning.
Also according to Doan Trung Con, in terms of human suffering and Suffering, it means that when people are born, they are all subject to suffering: tribulation, illness, depression, and the pressing advantages of body and mind. Sanskrit read as Dau-Khư (Duh-kha).
Buddhism teaches that: Sentient beings suffer, with four sufferings: birth, old age, sickness, death due to ignorance, confusion, greed, attachment, desire. To stop suffering, stop the desire, that is, perform the four Noble Truths of the Buddha and destroy the twelve Causes and Conditions (1) that are attached to each other and generate suffering.
So suffering with happiness (happiness).
Suffering is the first of the four truths that the Buddha teaches: 1 / Suffering (duh-kha), 2 / Volume (trisna), 3 / Cessation (moksa), 4 / Dao, ie the Noble Eightfold (marga).
These four truths are the Four Noble Truths, this is the teaching to eliminate suffering. People, if people do not practice for enlightenment, they still suffer. Because suffering has many terms that bring about: Tam suffering, Six suffering, Bat suffering.
Please simplify the above suffering so that we can ponder the experience.
Three suffering: As people, because of ignorance, they want to do suffering, so they suffer from suffering from suffering after suffering after suffering, which is fire and fire; What is hunger, thirst, sickness ... this suffering adds to another forever, but the body must be ceaselessly optimistic. The second suffering is corruption, because people, things that we like, then perish the times, that cause we feel suffering. The third suffering, which in the Buddhist teachings is called suffering, which is the suffering when realizing everything in this realm is impermanent, moving and changing forever, so the mind generates suffering.
As for the Six suffering (six suffering) in the Sutta (Du Old) book 44 has mentioned six suffering below:
1- Human suffering: The excuse of creating evil, causing evil.
2- Suffering results: The result-suffering brings.
3- Bridge of suffering: Suffering because of the tendency to follow money of material, position, position ...
4- Need for suffering: Suffering because of taking care of the things that we have.
5- Selflessness suffering: Suffering about greed, having this dish to pray for other dishes do not know bored.
6 - Variation of suffering: Suffering, grief because of corruption in the body, wife and children, (husband and children), houses, possessions, titles that suffer.
Along with the Three Suffering, the Six Suffering also has the Eight Suffering, because everyone has to suffer these eight sufferings that are: Birth suffering, Lao suffering, Sickness, Death suffering, Monk suffering, (ie not wanting, but living in close to the enemy but suffer); Loving and suffering separation (that is, separating from the one you love, bringing in daily memory should suffer); Praying unbearable suffering (that is the desire to desire but not to be); The five warm (aggregates) are miserable (that is, the five items that are united to be human (materiality, feeling, perception, onion, consciousness), if we don't get along with each other, there are too many dishes that suffer too much. identity) but it takes too much care, too hard; dreaming too much is also suffering; mind hard work, plans, too much, too hard ...
Those are the eight common sufferings of the world, plus the aforementioned sufferings that make people truly suffer without ceasing, which in Buddhist teachings is called "suffering sea" or broken suffering.
So, the suffering-soles that the Buddha taught that is one of the four truths of the Four Noble Truths: (Suffering, Practice, Cessation, Path). According to the Buddhist teachings, the results of samsara in the Three Realms are all suffering, without any peaceful nature. Li decided to be true, so called Suffering.
According to Buddhist teachings, Suffering is also understood here: Suffering has two lines, namely, Thanh and Trien. The suffering of ignorance is ordinary suffering because of craving, wanting, and suffering about objects. Like the three suffering, the six suffering, the bowl of suffering mentioned above.
The High Suffering is the suffering of Hanh. Because of the religion, he suffers to see the truth: Suffering, no, impermanence, no-self. Such cultivation is to pass the hardship to enter the four above-mentioned principles, then be liberated, and transcended from the cycle of suffering samsara. So this suffering is the noble austerities of the Enlightened Path - liberation. (Suffering here only the meticulous means An Lac Hanh).
To treat suffering diseases for those who devote their hearts to cultivate liberation from the Three Realms. Whenever someone came to ask about the religion, the Buddha said to them:
- I do not ask about your religion, your stance, but only what disease do you have?
- I just instructed you about the disease and the cure, that is suffering and how to stop suffering!
To educate sentient beings about the suffering of samsara (life here and death) in continuity of life. After becoming a moral, the Blessed One came to live at the Garden of Loc-wild (Mrgdava) near to the Ba complaint (Besnares) He turned the dharma theory on the Four Noble Truths (ie Four Noble Truths, Four Noble Truths). Content The Four Noble Truths pointed out very clearly by the Buddha are:
1 / Suffering: Life is full of suffering, humans and devas (the gods here are those who live in the elves for so long. thousand years of life) but also within the law of samsara and suffering when enjoying all the blessings you have created.
2 / The ultimate practice: Sentient beings suffer because of desire, jealousy, jealousy, selfishness, but become afflicted, evil due to ignorance gathered from many generations and many lives, creating bad and evil karma endlessly. called the base set.
3 / Killing soles: So worry that unless suffering, an end to negativity distention (by methods religious)
4 / sole director: Want except suffering, an end to suffering, they must enforce the Eightfold (ie eight main road They are: Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Life, Right Diligence, Mindfulness, Right Concentration. Those who practice according to the Four Noble Truths become Arhat, enter Nirvana.
Desperate for a conclusion
As mentioned above, the Four Noble Truths are the Buddha's Dharma that show the root cause of human suffering and are also caused and received by man. If the first 2 Noble Truths, which are considered to be the causes leading people to suffering, then the last 2 Noble Truths (the Noble Truth of the Noble Truths) are the Buddhist cultivation methods taught to end suffering.
So according to Buddhism (if well known enough), human suffering does not derive from socio-economic (material life) but from lust (desire) to ignorance (not insight) to then greed, anger, ignorance (greed, anger, ignorance) motivate creating ambition, desire to create karma (ie desire manifests into action called karma). And of course bad karma forces people to take its consequences (suffering).
From this fact, the Buddhist teachings refer to the theory of ten conditions and conditions (ie, the 12 conditions in which the conditions revolve). Starting from Ignorance, leads to Formation, Consciousness, Name, Six Paths, Contact, Feeling, Love, Thu, Huu, Born, Lao Death This is a circle of links pointing to the cause of human suffering, which has been taught very clearly by the Buddha in the teachings. According to the Patriarchs taught, practitioners use: Right understanding, right thought, righteous karma, mindfulness ... to cut off the "head" of ignorance, or any of the 12 karmic conditions of this circle, then will free the suffering. This is the Noble truth that the Buddha taught in the Four Noble Truths.
To broaden the way to learn, on this article would like to give some comments and assessments of Dr. Peter D. Pantina on Buddhist teachings for us to ponder. Dr. D. Pantina, comes from a Christian family in the United States, but has studied Buddhism for more than 14 years in India and other countries in Asia. He is a profound scholar of the Dharma and has lectured in many parts of the world on the complete model of the Buddha-dharma and especially emphasized the essence of the very specific monopod Buddhist teachings, logical and systematic in the scientific view of the West.
Here are some comments and assessments of Dr. D.Santina in the book (Foundations of the Buddha Dharma) and he said that: nowadays in European and Western countries people think that the Buddha is very progressive, very reasonable and practical. Therefore, many people with respectable positions in Western society have a lot of feelings or have followed the Buddha Dharma. It is a Dharma astrophysicist in France, a famous psychologist at the University of Rome and many others also revealed Buddhism and followed the Buddha's teachings.
"One of the first things that Western people see the value of the Buddha Dharma is that the Buddha Dharma is not limited by any culture, is not attached to any society, lineage or people. any particular race ”.
“The Buddha-dharma is very easy to translate from one culture to another, because the Buddha-dharma focuses on internal (inner) practice rather than the practice of external rituals. The Buddha Dharma is well known for its analytical method in the fields of philosophy and psychology. What we want to talk about is that the Buddha has analyzed experience into many factors, the most basic of which is the Five ties (Groups, Five Aggregates) ”.
Assessing the Four Noble Truths, Dr. D.Santina said: “This profound teaching of the Buddha is actually very similar and very surprising between the Buddha's approach and the current science approach. great deal with knowledge. The Buddha emphasizes the importance of observing the object. In a sense, observation is the key to the Buddha's cognitive method. It can be said that observation has brought about the first of the Four Deep Truths, which is the Deep Truth about suffering in the heart. Again, at the last stage in the path (the Four Noble Truths) of the Buddha is that observation (watching) clarifies the Buddha's perception of the complete cessation of suffering ”.
Please add another remark of Professor Rhys Drd about the Buddhist enlightenment: “Whether a Buddhist or not a Buddhist, I have studied every major religious system in the world, in all I have not. Find a religion that has a more complete beauty than the Eightfold Path of the Buddha. All I have to do is arrange my lifestyle to fit the path ”(According to Buddha and Hi Teachinh p.160).
Buddhism is a treasure of wisdom, but to the Buddha, he just said: "I am just a guide," it is up to each person to go or not. Before passing away Nirvana, He taught the final words to his mortals: "You should take the teachings as teachers" and verify even My teaching, if you see the truth, do it and He does not force anyone. must follow this doctrine, And He only talks about the suffering of human life in the cycle of birth and death, the six paths of samsara, whoever wants to be liberated, then do it.
And in the Sutta of A-Ham, the Buddha affirms the above: "Whoever loves matter (feeling, perception, and consciousness), he also loves suffering". Once living in suffering and feeling like it, what is the hope for liberation? The pleasant attitude in suffering is called ignorance. “Ignorance is not knowing, not knowing what? Rupa is impermanent, but not knowing as materiality is impermanent ”. On the contrary, only wise people wish to get rid of suffering. “Who doesn't love the color. (feeling, perception, action, consciousness) will not like suffering. Anyone who does not love suffering will be liberated.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.14/11/2020.
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