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Duḥkha (Sanskrit: दुःख; Pali: dukkha) is a term found in the Upanishads and Buddhist texts, meaning anything that is "uneasy, uncomfortable, unpleasant, difficult, causing pain or sadness". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is also a concept in Indian religions about the nature of transient phenomena which are innately "unpleasant", "suffering", "pain ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
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Something against Dharma. Advaita non-dual, such as in Advaita Vedanta Philosophy. Agastya Hindu sage. Agni Fire god. Ahamkara Sanskrit term for "ego". Ahimsa A religious principle of non-violence and respect for all life. Ahimsa (अहिंसा ahiṁsā) is Sanskrit for avoidance of himsa, or injury.
Not only have Siri Leknes and Irene Tracey, two neuroscientists who study pain and pleasure, concluded that pain and reward processing involve many of the same regions of the brain, but also that the functional relationship lies in that pain decreases pleasure and rewards increase analgesia, which is the relief from pain. [8]
Passion and desire go hand in hand, especially as a motivation. Linstead & Brewis refer to Merriam-Webster to say that passion is an "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction". This suggests that passion is a very intense emotion, but can be positive or negative. Negatively, it may be unpleasant at times.
Ishq (Arabic: عشق, romanized: ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent. The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran , which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the ...
The usage of saudade as a theme in Portuguese music goes back to the 16th century, the golden age of Portugal. Saudade , as well as love suffering, is a common theme in many villancicos and cantigas composed by Portuguese authors; for example: "Lágrimas de Saudade" ( tears of saudade ), which is an anonymous work from the Cancioneiro de Paris .