Suffering

Suffering in life.

A. SUFFERING BECAUSE ANY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL PAIN (Dukkha-Dukkha):
1. Suffering of birth: the discomfort of birth and experiencing the world for the first time; and the discomfort of relating to new demands or experiences.
2. Suffering of old age: the discomfort involved in the process of aging and growing old; this can apply to psychological as well as physical discomfort of aging.
3. Suffering of sickness: the discomfort of physical or psychological illness.
4. Suffering of death: includes the pain of separation and not being able to continue on in your endeavors, as well as the physical discomfort of dying.

B. SUFFERING BECAUSE OF CHANGES (Viparinama-Dukkha):
5. Suffering of getting what you don't want: being unable to avoid difficult or painful situations.
6. Suffering of not getting what you do want: this includes the pain of trying to hold onto what is desirable.

C. SUFFERING BECAUSE HUMAN BODY FORMATION (Sankhara-Dukkha):
7. Intention.
8. Five Aggregates.

"Bhikkhus, what one INTENDS, and what one plans, and whatever one has a tendency towards: this becomes a basis for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When consciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the production of future renewed existence. When there is the production of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair come to be. Such is the ORIGIN of this whole mass of suffering." - Buddha, Cetana Sutta.