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Duhkha (Pali, dukkha) exists. 2. Duhkha 3. has an identifiable cause. That cause may be terminated. 4. The means by which that cause may be terminated. The Sanskrit term duhkha (Pali, dukkha) is traditionally translated into English as "suffering" but, though it certainly includes this concept, it possesses a wide spectrum of connotations besides. At one extreme it takes in the most dire forms of mental and physical pain: the agonies of cancer, for instance, and anguish of someone who falls prey to total despair.

If they don 't work for us, then we can cast them aside with no qualms . The nature of the direct experiential knowledge towards which the Bud­ dhist teachings point came out very well many years ago in the intervi ew that john Freeman made with C . G . Jung on the "Face to Face" series on BBC Television. Freeman asked jung direcdy if he believed in God. Jung b alked a litde . "The word believe is difficult for me , " he explained. "You see-I know. " In short , knowledge is direct first-hand experience about which there can be no argument.

It is a gruesome picture, but it also portrays a virtuoso performance of its kind and it impressed five other ascetics, who asked if they could join him. However, in the long run Siddhartha had to admit to himself that it had not provided him with a fully satisfying answer to his problem, and he realized that if he went on abusing his body in that way he would die before finding one. He therefore took a little food in order to give himself enough strength to make a new start. " This in itself gives a hint of the spiritual one-upmanship that so often underlies that sort of ascetic athleticism.

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