Originally Posted by
Jundo
Hi Shujin,
Well, Dukkha is often translated as "suffering", but it is perhaps better described as the “dissatisfaction,” “anxiety,” “disappointment,” "friction" that results between the "me/self" and the "everything else not me"**. It is created by our view of division, combined with all the anger, excess desire, attachment, jealousy, fear, regrets and the like that go with it when our little self is not satisfied with how the "not the self" is.
And Samsara is the whole divided, messy world of "me" and "you", anger, desire, attachment, beautiful and ugly, peace and war, times of health and sickness, birth and death which is where Dukkha is encountered and played out.
Buddhist Practice, in all schools and all its flavors, is about getting past or seeing through this division, and the dissatisfaction, anxiety, disappointment, anger, desires, fear, etc. etc. of the little self.
When that is so, Dukkha vanishes ... Samsara becomes Nirvana.
Of course, a tricky part of this Practice is how to continue living in this messy world of "Samsara", and as this often craving and dissatisfied little "you", even after seeing through them. Samsara is Nirvana even while still messy Samsara.
That is an "in a nutshell" response.
Gassho, J
PS ** Worth mentioning that even the sense of "me" is really part of the "not me", because we treat ourself like an object, are often dissatisfied with ourself just as much as any other thing in the world.
