Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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148 FOUNDATION OF KINGDOM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
standing, which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment, to Nirvana !
5. 'Now this, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning suffering.
Birth is attended with pain ?, decay is painful, disease is painful, death is painful. Union with the unpleasant is painful, painful is separation from the pleasant; and any craving that is unsatisfied, that too is painful. In brief, the five aggregates which spring from attachment (the conditions of individuality and their cause) 3 are painful. .This then, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning suffering.
6. Now this, o Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning the origin of suffering.
'Verily, it is that thirst (or craving), causing the renewal of existence, accompanied by sensual delight, seeking satisfaction now here, now therethat is to say, the craving for the gratification of the passions, or the craving for a future) life, or the craving for success in this present life) 4.
1 On the following four truths' compare Dhammapada, verse 191, and Mahâ-parinibbâna Sutta II, 2, 3, and IV, 7, 8.
? Or is painful.'
8 Pank upâdânakk handha. On the Khandhâ, or the material and mental aggregates which go to make up an individual, see my "Buddhism,' Chap. III. Upâdâna, or 'grasping' is their source, and the uprooting of this up a da na from the mind is Arahatship.
One might express the central thought of this First Noble Truth in the language of the nineteenth century by saying that pain results from existence as an individual. It is the struggle to maintain one's individuality which produces pain-a most pregnant and far-reaching suggestion. See for a fuller exposition the Fortnightly Review for December, 1879.
4 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life'
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