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Ep. 34 - The Eightfold Path: Practicing Right View

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Dukkha - The Truth of Suffering

Dukkha means all of these things and all of us have experienced this authoring in our lives. We know of the suffering of the mind in terms of only afflictive emotions that can arise fear, anger, jealousy,. despair, envy, hatred, boredom, restlessness. They afflict us they're uneasy. Separation from the pleasant is Dukkha. Not getting what we want is DukKha. Then the Buddha summed all of this up in just a single phrase which is even more fundamental and comprehensive than any previous Buddhist work. It's a phrase that highlights the extent and subtlety of our wrong view. And so when you hear suffering you really need

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