英語で仏教、今回のテーマは【苦】です。

仏教は【苦】を大きなテーマとして扱う宗教です。そのあたりを、日本語と英語で味わってみたいと思います。

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The Buddha was aware that this world is one of suffering. All things are impermanent; we will someday grow old, fall ill and have to die.

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We feel this as distress, cause for grief and anguish. Buddhism takes the fact of being born, growing old, becoming ill, and dying as fundamental sufferings of all sentient beings and calls this the “Four Sufferings.” These four are:

(1) birth

(2) old age

(3) illness

(4) death

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At a later time, four more were added;

(5) parting from those one loves

(6) having to meet those one hates

(7) not being able to have what one desires

(8) clinging to the five aggregates; suffering of the mind body

These four added to the first four are called the Eight Sufferings(hakku), and from this comes the Japanese expression shiku-hakku, meaning “in agony or distress.”