Distorted
perception imagines:
Worldly Happiness is possible!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Dukkhānupassanam bhāvento
sukhasaññam pajahati...
When gradually developing the contemplation of
Suffering (dukkha),
one gradually overcomes the false perception of pleasure
and
happiness...
He once convinced a pedantic disputant by this cut-to-the-bone explanation:
Friend Aggivessana,
what do you think, is any material form, is any feeling,
is any perception, is any mental construction, and is any consciousness,
always permanent, or
always impermanent?
Venerable Gotama, they are all always
impermanent...
If all these things
always are impermanent, are they then pleasurable, or
are
they then disappointing and painful? Are they then happiness or
suffering?
Venerable Gotama, then they are all painful, then they are all
suffering...
Aggivessana, what do you think,
when one searches for
what is suffering,
clings to what is suffering,
resorts to what is suffering, holds on to what
is suffering and regards
what is suffering as: "This is mine, this I am,
this is my self..."
can one then ever come to understand suffering,
or
ever be freed from all suffering?
How could one ever Master Gotama, no never Master
Gotama...
Source: MN I [232]
At Savatthi the Venerable Radha asked the
Blessed One:
Venerable
Sir, one says: Suffering!! What, Venerable Sir, is suffering?
Form, Radha, is suffering, feeling is suffering, perception is
suffering,
mental constructions are suffering, consciousness is suffering...!
Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple
experiences
disgust towards form, disgust towards feeling, disgust towards
perception,
disgust towards mental construction, and disgust towards
consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through disillusion
his mind is
released. When it is released, he instantly knows: This mind is
liberated, and
he understands: Extinguished is this rebirth, this Noble Life is all
completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond
this...
Source:
SN
23:15 III [196.1]
More on this universal,
inevitable and absolute Suffering (Dukkha):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Fact_of_Suffering_Dukkha.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_3_Universal_Characteristics.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Suffering.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stopping_Physical_Pain.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Physical_Pain.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_3_Ultimate_Facts.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Source_of_What.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samsaric_Dread.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Endless_Round.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/300_Spears.htm
