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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.
One of the central points of Buddhism, which originated in ancient India, is the claim that life is full of suffering and unsatisfactoriness. This is known as duḥkha from the Four Noble Truths. [16] [10]: 38 [17]: 29–42 [18]: 130
Later translators have emphasized that "suffering" is a too limited translation for the term duḥkha, and have preferred to either leave the term untranslated, [15] or to clarify that translation with terms such as anxiety, distress, frustration, unease, unsatisfactoriness, not having what one wants, having what one doesn't want, etc. [18] [19 ...
In Buddhism, saṃsāra is the beginningless and endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth characterized by suffering. [2] [10] Passages from the Samyutta Nikaya propose that this process is beginningless, fueled by the ignorance and craving of beings. [11]
Social suffering, according to Arthur Kleinman and others, describes "collective and individual human suffering associated with life conditions shaped by powerful social forces". [17] Such suffering is an increasing concern in medical anthropology, ethnography, mass media analysis, and Holocaust studies, says Iain Wilkinson, [ 18 ] who is ...
The tech genius—who with a net worth of $80 billion is one of the world's wealthiest people—was born in Taiwan in 1963 and spent the bulk of his early life in Thailand, before moving to the U ...
The problem of evil has been extended to non-human life forms, to include suffering of non-human animal species from natural evils and human cruelty against them. [12] According to scholars [a], most philosophers see the logical problem of evil as having been fully rebutted by various defenses. [16] [17] [18]
The pontiff has suffered from lung-related issues for much of his life. As a young man, he suffered from severe pneumonia and had part of one lung removed. The Vatican has been releasing twice ...