The Noble Truth of Suffering : 3. Suffering as a result of Illness [byadhi dukkha]

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The Noble Truth of Suffering :

3. Suffering as a result of Illness [byadhi dukkha]

 

 

Illness brings pain, weariness, aches and weakness to the home that is our body.

 

The Lord Buddha taught that suffering as a result of illness comes from the malfunction of the bodily elements. Some comes  from the malfunction of the bodily elements. Some times such malfunction leaves us feeling cold. Sometimes we are left feeling intense heat and pain inside.

Metaphors for Suffering as a result of illness

 

 

Suffering as a result of Illness [byadhi dukkha]

 

1. A donkey dying while giving birth to a mule: to bear the suffering of illness is as hard to bear as the suffering of a mother donkey who dies painfully while attempting to give birth to the kicking mule in her womb.

 

2. A parasitic creeper: A creeper starts by growing on a tree trunk, but eventually it will compete for the nutrition of that tree and eventually strangle that tree to death like reed and bamboo competing for nutriments in the soil.

 

 

The Lord Buddha taught that suffering as a result of illness comes from the malfunction of the bodily elements.

 

Illness brings pain, weariness, aches and weakness to the home that is our body. Illness undermines the sturdiness of our body and deprives us of happiness, bringing us misery in its place. Even the Buddha and the enlightened ones are subject to the suffering of illness so who are we to overlook the misery of illness?

 

to be continued...

 

 

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