Suffering and freedom from suffering

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Suffering and freedom from suffering • Generally, suffering and freedom from suffering refer to the experience of confusion and, respectively, freedom from confusion. Many problems arise due to confusion. One is free of suffering when one is free of confusion. • The difference between a state of suffering and a state free of suffering depends upon each individual’s degree of confusion. True happiness in Buddhism is described as a state beyond the suffering and happiness that ordinary beings are subject to and continuously experience. • • One identifies suffering as a moment-to-moment experience of discomfort, of physical or mental anguish and pain - experiences that oppose one’s hopes. • The moment-to-moment experience of satisfaction is what one usually refers to as happiness. This is not seen as true happiness in Buddhism. • Worldly situations are a result of karma and can never be reliable because they change and end. True happiness in Buddhism is defined as having nothing beyond or outside of it. • One needs to know this. True happiness is the experience of perfect buddhahood, the completely awakened mind. The characteristic of buddhahood is all-knowing – it is the experience of true happiness and freedom from suffering. The term for ‘buddha’ is sangs-gyäs in Tibetan , sang meaning ‘complete purification of the twofold coarse and subtle veils’ and gyäs meaning ‘attainment of the twofold realizations,’ which are knowledge of the fundamental or undistorted nature of reality and knowledge of the manifold ways phenomena arise and function. These two attributes are expressions of a fully awakened buddha. • http://www.dharmadownload.net/pages/e...

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