The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness… — Pali Tipitaka

The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

Pali Tipitaka
100 BC
★ 3.6
Provenance
Current citation
Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56.
Original citation
Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56, p. 11.

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