What is Suffering?

Buddhitakso

The word ‘suffering’ seems to appear in every corner of Buddhism. And generally, one would tend to associate suffering with pain, agony, sadness, and all sorts of negativity in one’s life time. Unfortunately, this is not the case in the eyes of the Buddha.

For general understanding, the meaning of Dukkha or suffering would be ‘to bear with’ in the Buddhist context. Any circumstances that would involve one - to continue with; to persevere with; to soldier on with; to carry on with; to undertake with; to go through with would mean suffering. Literally, it is not so much about oneself associating with the condition of pain, agony, joyful or happiness; for these conditions reflected as the consequences of Dukkha arising.

‘To bear with’ is to suffer and the antonym of it is ‘to let go’. So, stop submitting yourself to the conditional circumstances and you would be freed, be liberated and be disappeared!

Cure the cause; not the symptoms!