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Duḥkha ()(Sanskrit; Pali: dukkha), 'unease', "standing unstable," commonly translated as "suffering", "pain", or "unhappiness", is an important concept in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism. Its meaning depends on the context, and may refer more specifically to the "unsatisfactoriness" or "unease" of mundane life, not being at ease when driven by craving/grasping and ignorance.

While the term dukkha has often been derived from the prefix du ("bad" or "difficult") and the root kha ("empty," "hole"), meaning a badly fitting axle-hole of a cart or chariot giving "a very bumpy ride," it may actually be derived from duḥ-stha, a "dis-/ bad- + stand-", that is, "standing badly, unsteady," "unstable."

In Buddhism, dukkha is part of the first of the Four Noble Truths and one of the three marks of existence. The term also appears in scriptures of Hinduism, such as the Upanishads, in discussions of moksha (spiritual liberation).

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Title	Speaker	Date
Unknown Date, Serial 00376 Consciousness, Suffering, Impermanence, Ego, Letting Go, confusion, Right Speech,...	Katagiri Roshi	[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown Date, Serial 00389 Suffering, Anger, Attachment, Consciousness, Balance, Liberation, Building,...	Katagiri Roshi	[field_wisdom_date]
Lotus Sūtra No. I-5 Serial: SR-00105 February 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, reality, Monks, Truth, Interview,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 1968 Series 1, Talk 5 Tassajara
Lotus Sūtra No. I-6 Serial: SR-00106 February 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Truth, Karma, Monks, Sutra, Suffering...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 1968 Series 1, Talk 6 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8 Serial: SR-00001 Fall 1968 Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Faith, Sutra, Priest, Suffering, Composure, Balance, Mahayana...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 8 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12 Serial: SR-00004 Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12 Shunryu Suzuki Lecture October 1968 Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 12 Tassajara
February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00002 Meditation, Transmission, Letting Go, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Composure,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1969
February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00003 Delusion, Samadhi, Meditation, Nirvana, Subject-and-Object, Pain, realization,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1969
February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00004 Repentance, Delusion, Happiness, Vows, Meditation, Suffering, Mindfulness, Passions,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1969
February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00006 Discrimination, realization, Anger, training, Suffering, Consciousness, Pain...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1969
February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00007 Suffering, causation, Fasting, Zendo, Echo, Greed, Intention, Anger, Describe,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1969
February 18th, 1969, Serial No. 00008 causation, Suffering, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Nature,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 18 1969
February 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00009 Attachment, causation, realization, Consciousness, Breath, Happiness, Community,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 25 1969
March 1969 talk, Serial No. 00010 Suffering, Delusion, Composure, Meditation, Lineage, Anger, Happiness, Hate, American...	Katagiri Roshi	Mar 1969
Find Out for Yourself Serial: SR-00011 Find out what "buddha-nature" and "enlightenment" mean. Study without purpose. How his teacher in Japan treated him; trying to discover the right thing to do. Sesshin, Zazen, Eiheiji, Suffering, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Beginners, Posture, zen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1969 Sokoji
March 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00011 Silence, Meditation, Attachment, Bodhidharma, confusion, Gratitude, Community,...	Katagiri Roshi	Mar 25 1969
April 14th, 1969, Serial No. 00031, Side A Birth-and-Death, New Year, Silence, lecture, Suffering, Pain, causation, Continuous,...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 14 1969
April 14th, 1969, Serial No. 00031, Side B Silence, causation, Suffering	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 14 1969
April 15th, 1969, Serial No. 00042 Silence, Nirvana, Meditation, training, Don't Know Mind, causation, Suffering,...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 15 1969
Zen Is Not Something To Talk About, And Also It Is Something To Talk About Serial: SR-00015 Shunryu Suzuki (with Ryogen Yoshimura) Afternoon Sesshin Lecture Sunday, April 19, 1969 Audio includes Yoshimura at beginning. Sesshin, Suffering, lecture, Monks, Don't Know Mind, Priest, Community, Posture...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 19 1969
April 19th, 1969, Serial No. 00013 Silence, Big Mind, Suffering, Meditation, Birth-and-Death, Fox, Patience, Vows,...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 19 1969
April 29th, 1969, Serial No. 00313 Evil, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Don't Know Mind, Community, Religion,...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 29 1969
June 10th, 1969, Serial No. 00015 Consciousness, Big Mind, Obstacles, Emotions, New Year, Samadhi, Suffering, Ego, Hate...	Katagiri Roshi	Jun 10 1969
The Most Important Precept Precepts, Dogen, Eiheiji, Sanctuary, Hate, Suffering, Truth	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 01 1969 Tassajara
The First Teaching Serial: SR-00158 Teaching of impermanence, everything changing; also there is selflessness, suffering and nirvana. The sufferings of birth, death, sickness and old age. Causes of suffering,... Suffering, Ego, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Suffering, Wisdom, Truth, Attachment,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1969 Tassajara
We Practice Zazen So That We Attain Selflessness Suffering, Wisdom, Dragons, Don't Know Mind, Meditation, Separation, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 03 1969 Tassajara
Twelve Links of Causation Serial: SR-00135 Twelve Links Of Causation Juni-innen (Jap.) Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.) English Japanese Sanskrit... Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 23 1969 Tassajara
Question and Answer Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Separation, Pain, American, Anger,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 25 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Fragment of Q & A Serial: SR-00210 File name: 69-10-14-X: fragment of Q & A (titled by pf) A fragment of about 2 minutes found after chanting on tape for 69-10-14. This is contiguous with the talk on... Dogen, Transmission, Suffering, Monks, sitting, Silence, Priest, zen, War	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 14 1969 X
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4 Serial: SR-00038 [Third Lotus Sutra Series] Saturday Evening, October 25, 1969 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Sutra, Priest, Mahayana,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 25 1969 Series 3, Talk 4 Tassajara
October 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00038 Greed, Funeral, training, Observe, Ceremony, lecture, Suffering, American	Katagiri Roshi	Oct 25 1969
December 4th, 1969, Serial No. 00041 Evil, Happiness, Religion, Addiction, Birth-and-Death, Delusion, Discrimination,...	Katagiri Roshi	Dec 04 1969
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 City Center Sesshin, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, training, Hate, Suffering, Pain,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 A City Center
February 1970 talk, Serial No. 00207 Pain, Suffering, Describe, Compassion, Hate, Transmission, Ceremony, Meditation...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 1970
Non-Dualistic Practice Serial: SR-00260 Sesshin Lecture No. 3: Wednesday, February 25, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, zen, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, training,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 25 1970 City Center
March 12th, 1970, Serial No. 00206 Silence, Pain, Delusion, Don't Know Mind, Suffering, Bell, Describe, lecture,...	Katagiri Roshi	Mar 12 1970
The Zen of Going to the Rest Room Ummon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 29 1970 City Center
April 7th, 1970, Serial No. 00200 Happiness, Religion, Repentance, Intention, Bell, Ceremony, Attachment, Fasting, Vows...	Katagiri Roshi	Apr 07 1970
Buddha Is Always Here Serial: SR-00051 Sandokai Lecture III Monday, June 1, 1970 Tassajara [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 01 1970 Tassajara
Today We May Be Very Happy Serial: SR-00057 Sandokai Lecture VI Wednesday, June 10, 1970 Tassajara [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai: Shiki moto shitsuzo wo... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Happiness, Zazen, Suffering, Pain, Buddha Nature,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 10 1970 Tassajara
Without Any Idea of Attainment Serial: SR-00061 Sandokai Lecture VIII Wednesday, June 17, 1970 Tassajara [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 21 Manako wa iro,... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Precepts, Subject-and-Object, reality, Oneness, Monks,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 17 1970 Tassajara
Within Light There Is Utter Darkness Serial: SR-00052 Sandokai Lecture IX Saturday, June 20, 1970 Tassajara [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 27 Meichu ni atatte an... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Suffering, Truth, Diversity, sitting, Duality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 20 1970 Tassajara

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