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Suffering* or Pain or Stress or Dukkha (in Pali) is taken to mean
the dissatisfying, painful and suffering nature of human existence.

Dedication
to my mum who had always reminded me of using our ears with
wisdom and not be drawn to by hearsay, rumour or the written word;
to exercise a clear vision of knowing who we keep as friends;
and not to cultivate greed for the sake of keeping.

my mum who may not have touched base with buddhism
have in a very peculiar way taught us a valuable lesson
in human existence.
Kalama Sutta!

mum, this is written for you!

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santivara

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* Pali: DUKKHA – commonly translated as “suffering” and may invariably
use interchageably with terms like pain, stress, anxiety, frustration, unease,
incapable of satisfying, the unsatisfactory nature and the general insecurity of all
conditioned phenomena of human existence or the fundamental unhappiness of
mundane life.

Contemporary translators of Buddhist texts use a variety of English words
to convey the aspects of dukkha. Early Western translators of Buddhist texts
(before the 1970s) typically translated the Pali term dukkha as “suffering.” Later
translators have emphasized that “suffering” is a too limited translation for the
term dukkha, and have preferred to leave the term untranslated.

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