Life

Birth, aging, illness, death, separation from those we love, meeting those we hate, wanting what we cannot have, and the burning intensity of the five skandhas.

The Maharatnakuta Sutra says: "Nanda, you should know that while in the womb, one suffers all manner of hardships such as these."

People say the pain of birth is the suffering we experience when we enter this world. But is being alive, to some extent, also a kind of "suffering of birth"?

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