What is
Suffering (Dukkha)?
At Savatthi. Sitting to one side, the Venerable Radha asked the
Blessed One:
Venerable sir, it is said, 'suffering, suffering', What now, venerable sir,
is suffering?
Radha, all form is suffering, all feeling is suffering, all perception is
suffering,
all intentional mental formation is suffering, and consciousness itself is
suffering.
Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple experiences disgust
towards any form, disgust towards any feeling, disgust towards any perception,
disgust towards any mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through this disillusion his mind
is released. When mind is released, one instantly knows: This mind is liberated,
and one understands: Extinguished is rebirth, this Noble Life is all completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this...
Comments:
These
5 clusters of clinging
are what denotes both the internal 'individual'
and the 'external' real world. However as they continually change, no
same
internal
'self'= identity or external 'substance'= reality can ever be found!
Since always changing they are always lost and therefore
are they always
ultimately speaking suffering! An inner mental prison of craving for
something
inevitably, unambiguously & spontaneously vanishing! A fever of folly
obsession…
The Suffering and Imprisonment is
NOT outside, but inside in our mind!
