dukkha

American

[doo-kuh] / ˈdu kə /

noun

Buddhism.

the first of the Four Noble Truths, that all human experience is transient and that suffering results from excessive desire and attachment.

dukkha British

/ ˈdukə /

noun

Sanskrit word: duhkha. (in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things are suffering, due to the desire to seek permanence or recognize the self when neither exist: one of the three basic characteristics of existence Compare anata anicca

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Etymology

Origin of dukkha

From Pali

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A more accurate understanding of dukkha within this context must include all three senses of suffering.

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It is our tendency to impose permanence upon that which by nature is not, or our craving for ontological persistence, that best captures this sense of dukkha.

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