suffering of suffering, suffering of change, all-pervaasive suffering of conditioning
Tib. སྡུག་བསྔལ་གསུམ་
| Sufferings | Tibetan |
|---|---|
| Suffering of Suffering | སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ |
| Suffering of Change | འགྱུར་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ |
| All-Pervasive Suffering of Conditioning | ཁྱབ་པ་འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ |
Suffering of Suffering
Anything that everyone identifies as suffering, e.g. headache, toothache. Birth, aging, old age and death belong to this category too.
Exists only in the form realm.
Pliancy: it’s harder to operate under this state.
Suffering of Change
For example the pleasure of eating delicious food. The experience of joy that you have for the first bite of that food — moderation does not escape it —, if you keep partaking in it, eventually changes into suffering of suffering.
The suffering of change is therefore the fact we are dealing with bait.
Exists in the desire and form realms.
Pliancy: It’s easier to operate under this state.
Pervasive Conditioned Suffering
The “mastermind” behind the other two sufferings (puppets).
Definition of pervasive and condition needs to be understood:
- Pervasive: is present in all 3 Realms
- Condition: we are conditioned, dictated by the “dream”, we are the slaves of (1) pervasive condition of suffering, (2) contaminated karmas and afflictions, (3) self-grasping ignorance.
5 examples of the pervasive condition of suffering:
- Being in the sway of contaminated karmas and afflictions.
- 5 contaminated aggregates (body + mind).
- Involuntary birth in samsara.
- Contaminated neutral feeling.
- Being under under the control of self-grasping ignorance.