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If someone were to feel joy by the victim's fall from grace, they would be experiencing schadenfreude. Roman holiday is a metaphor from Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, where a gladiator in ancient Rome expects to be "butchered to make a Roman holiday" while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering. The term suggests ...
[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 ...
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
It has also been suggested that humour may serve as an attempt to relate to people from a distance, evoked by a childhood desire for social contact. [6] Typically humour is described as an emotional and cognitive state and its absence has been found to cause depression and anxiety. [24]
For Schopenhauer, the Will is an aimless desire to perpetuate itself, the basis of life. Desire engendered by the Will is the source of all the sorrow in the world; each satisfied desire leaves us either with boredom, or with some new desire to take its place. A world in thrall to Will is necessarily a world of suffering.
Ignorance , the first cause of suffering. It obscures the higher self by firmly establishing negative habits and resisting change [1] [3] Ego , attachment to the ego. [1] [3] Attachment , desire for material objects, relationships, status, power, or other desires [1] [3]
Thinking is mind karma, and so forth with body or voice action which is revealing. Contaminated action in samsara causes either happiness or suffering. When karma causes an effect in nirvana, the truth of the path then is called uncontaminated action. In a single life, it is the seeing karma, resulting in ripening in the current life.