Buddha didn’t preached about Suffering !

 

 Buddhism is Not about Suffering !

Universal misunderstanding about what Buddha discovered and preached .

Preface:

The Main guidance presented in  Buddhism is called four noble truth.

Any document or presentation you read or brows may give you,

The Four Noble Truths, which Buddha taught, are:

• The truth of suffering (dukkha)

• The truth of the cause of suffering (samudaya)

• The truth of the end of suffering (nirhodha)

• The truth of the path that frees us from suffering (magga)

They say, you have to adhere this path to end ‘Suffering’.

The first step   is realising there is something called Dukkha satya or ‘suffering as indicated above ’ .

In Pali, they use dukka and in sinhala it is called duka.

In simhala language duka means sorrow, unhappiness, sadness etc.

In Christianity they use the same sufferings word to describe the effects of the physical torture given to Christ during crucifixion .

The suffering term can be found in many places of Bible,

His people would follow in His footsteps, and that would include suffering (John 15:20).

He left us an example of how to suffer (1 Peter 2:19-21).

May be due to above two reasons , 

when the early scholars translate Pali / Sinhala ‘Dukka’ to English they have naturally selected the term ‘Suffering’ as they thought Dukkha is something painful or torturing you .

Now this word and its meaning regard to Buddhism in - almost - universally accepted and used, unchallenged.

Actually Dukkha satya -and other three ‘sathyas’ are - not what you can confined into a word or two. They are something like attaining a state of mind after analyzing the function of your mind.

Hence, usage of the word “Suffering” to represent Dukkha drag the whole intellectual world completely away from the path shown by the Buddha to attain nibbana or freedom .

This is the greatest misunderstanding spread with respect to Buddhism or Buddhist philosophy around the world.

Suffering is not what Buddha analysed, found and defined about the ‘world’ or ‘universe’ in related to lives  of each and everybody, including animals, living in this planet.

Actually,   Buddha did not say you are suffering at each and every moment in your entire life.

Do you ‘suffer’ when you are in a good mood after wining a lottery or passing a difficult exam ? Do you suffer when you hear the long awaited word from your fiancée ? 

The   reply they give as the answer to this obvious question is that, although your feel happy now, you will suffer sometimes later.

This is nonsense.

This is not acceptable whatsoever because, truthfulness of Buddhas word not depends on the situation you are in, it is not something fit to one instance and unfit to other instance.

That is why it is called the universal truth and akaliko.

Akaliko means ‘not depend on any time frame’.

Dukkha is some kind of phenomenon you have to experience in each and every instance of your life.

Hence it is not sorrow, pain, sadness, misery, agony or something like that.

Normally , you ‘suffer’ due to a wrong action done or bad situation created by you or others.

Dukkha is not a situation arising due to any wrongdoing by you or anybody.

It is there always, from the start to the end of your life.

Hence, Dukkha is Not Suffering.

If so, What is Dukkha ?

To glimpse any idea about dukkha w.r.t. Buddhism, we have to grasp the real meaning of Anithya.

Because, Anithya is the basis of the entire research done by Buddha to develop the noble path to Nibbaana.