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[web 20] [note 17] Melvin E. Spiro further explains that "desire is the cause of suffering because desire is the cause of rebirth." [85] When desire ceases, rebirth and its accompanying suffering ceases. [85] [note 18] Peter Harvey explains: Once birth has arisen, "ageing and death", and various other dukkha states follow.
The cause of this suffering is attachment to, or craving for worldly pleasures of all kinds and clinging to this very existence, our "self" and the things or people we—due to our delusions—deem the cause of our respective happiness or unhappiness. The suffering ends when the craving and desire ends, or one is freed from all desires by ...
Many existentialists believe suffering is necessary in order to find meaning in our lives. [36] Existential Positive Psychology is a theory dedicated to exploring the relationship between suffering and happiness and the belief that true authentic happiness can only come from experiencing pain and hardships. [37]
The Four Noble Truths articulate the nature of suffering (dukkha), its origin in desire and attachment, the possibility of cessation , and the path leading to this cessation. The Noble Eightfold Path provides practical guidance for ethical and mental development, emphasizing right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right ...
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” — George Sand “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do ...
Likewise, when we focus on decreasing our level of suffering and pain, once again our orientation will be outward, looking for scientific and technological breakthroughs to relieve our suffering. Human desire for ever-greater happiness seems to be insatiable, and a materialistic worldview strongly supports materialistic values and a way of life ...
Dukkha-dukkha, aversion to physical suffering – this includes the physical and mental sufferings of birth, aging, illness, dying; distress due to what is not desirable. Viparinama-dukkha , the frustration of disappearing happiness – this is the duḥkha of pleasant or happy experiences changing to unpleasant when the causes and conditions ...
The passions are transliterated pathê from Greek. [1] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers. [2] The Stoics used the word to discuss many common emotions such as anger, fear and excessive joy. [3]