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Four Noble Truths
6 : Contemporary interpretations

Buddha found the truth about life and all forms of desire, (not only suffering and craving).

A Study of the Mahasatipatthana's Four Noble Truths. www.ToBeorTaboo.de/axis/dukkha/

"Originally, ... duhkha meant "having a poor axle hole," ... " (1) - dukkha originally refered to if the axle was running smoothly in the axle hole. The spoked wheel was very important, it changed everything from markets to mobility. In those times such cart wheels were like Internet today.

The text says: "in short, the five aggregates are dukkha"(2). The five aggregates are "form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness."(3).

Form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are dukkha - this means the process of feeling and understanding the world is not running smoothly.

Our feeling and understanding are not running smoothly because pleasure leads to preferences. Buddha discovered the truth about all forms of desire, not only the truth about craving and suffering. Every small personal preference hinders our direct experience and relationship with the world.

Preferences are pre-references, and these automatically lead us to always want to repeat our pleasant experiences and avoid the unpleasant ones, nothing metaphysical, purely practical and simple : and this means always wanting to influence the here and now.

The text says "it is that craving which gives rise to fresh rebirth" (2,3) and while this maybe so; what we can witness every day is how all our little preferences, our pre-references, cause repitition of our experiences and our responses.

1. Sargeant, Wikipedia, Dukkha, Etymology

2. Mahasatipatthana Sutta translated by U Jotika & U Dhamminda https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/mahasati.htm

3. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Nyanaponika Thera https://de.scribd.com/doc/86402115/The-Heart-of-Buddhist-Meditation-by-Nyanaponika-Thera

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