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4.B.2.B.1.b. Actual Meditation on Unsatisfactory
Experiences (Suffering) [Teachings]
- Thinking of the suffering of cyclic existence
in general
- No certainty
- No satisfaction
- Having to abandon your body repeatedly
- Having to take rebirth in cyclic existence
repeatedly.
- Changing status repeatedly, from exalted
to humble.
- Essentially being alone, no friends.
The unsatisfactory nature is summarized in 3:
- The unsatisfactory experience of suffering
and pain
- The unsatisfactory experience of change
- The compounded, pervading unsatisfactory experience
- Thinking about the suffering of individual states
- Suffering of 3 unfortunate states (discussed
earlier)
- Suffering of 3 fortunate states
- Unsatisfactory experiences of humans.
- Birth
- Aging
- Sickness
- Death
- Being parted from what you like
- Meeting with what you don't like
- Not obtaining what you like
- Having contaminated physical and
mental aggregates
- Unsatisfactory experiences of the demi-gods
- Unsatisfactory experiences of the gods
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