Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Notes on suffering and affliction

The heart of Prajnaparameta Sutra
with verses without a stand and prose commentary

venerable Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua
English Translation by the buddhist Text Translations Society
copyrite 2002

Three kinds of suffering
Suffering of suffering itself
suffering of decay
suffering of the activity of the five skanhas

8 kinds of suffering of which the first four are produced from the body. (birth sickness, old age and death)

external situations, being apart from loved ones, being around those you detest, not obtaining what you seek, the 'flourishing' of the five skandhas.

there are 84,000 kinds of affliction

twenty subsidary afflictions - they follow you and me (Im guessing its on an individual basis)

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