The Three Characteristics: Pain
by Lisa Goddard
The Three Characteristics are considered core insights of Insight meditation. The three is Dukkha, or pain more often translated as suffering, which this talk will explore. Impermanence is the way in which all experiences can be characterized by change, and Anatta, which translates to not self. Dukkha is literally translated as painful but is commonly translated as suffering. Some translations refer to Dukkha as unreliable. All experiences can somehow be characterized as having some quality of unreliability, some level of dissatisfaction. Part of the function of our mindfulness practice is to see over and over again this is pain, this is dissatisfaction, here it is and to develop its opposite. The opposite of pain is well-being.
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