By Jerry Kolber
I am going back to the basics and reading about the four noble truths, the first of which is suffering or dukkha.
"Now this, monks, is the Noble Truth of dukkha: Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair are dukkha; association with the unbeloved is dukkha; separation from the loved is dukkha; not getting what is wanted is dukkha. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are dukkha."
The five aggregates are difficult for me to wrap my head around, so I wanted to take some time to teach them to myself in my own language.
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