Dhukka
Religious Studies A: AQA GCSE Religions, topic 1.1.6
The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
The First Noble Truth, the Dhukkha, is the first teaching of Siddatha Gautama after he reached enlightenment.
Dukkha
- Dukkha is often translated as 'suffering', or anxiety/distress, of which there are three types found in scriptures:
- Dukkha-dukkha, which are painful experiences such as birth, ageing, illness and death.
- Viparinama-dukkha are pleasant experiences which change to be unpleasant.
- Sankhara-dukkha is the unsatisfactoriness which pervades all existence and forms of life, because life is impermanent.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
- 'Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.'(Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)
Test yourself on Dhukka
What is the name of the First Noble Truth?
Which of these statements are correct regarding the three types of Dukkha?