Dukkha Samudaya Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 3)

Let's see the second truth of the four noble truths.It is Dukkha Samudaya Arya Sachcha. Before going to this, if you haven't read older posts of these four noble truths posts, find them in following.

Four Noble Truths (Part 1)
Dukkha Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 2 )

Dukkha Samudaya means the reason for the suffering and pain. As we discussed about the Dukkha, What do you think about the reason for the suffering and pain? Can you guess? The reason is the desires (called Thanha in Pali).

Everything in this universe is subject to the changing. Everything is changing in every second. We are trying to own them always.That is called desire.But we can not own them forever. Because of the changing, one day they will go away from us. That makes the pain in our mind.

Every living being in this Sansara  want to exist themselves in this universe. So that desire is binded with five Upadanaskandha. It makes the ego for a person. So desires grab the five Upadanaskandha. So five Upadanaskandha occurs and die every moment and the desires make it keep going without ending. That makes the consciousness to grab an another birth in a death with the help of the Karma.

A person has a desire about himself. It is the very tight and comes first always. Then his loved ones and then his properties. If they are lost then pain and suffering occurs.As an example, It is hard to bear the loose of the home and job, But if a death of the wife or a son is greater than that pain. But damage to own body is most painful among all of them. But if there are no desires then there won't be pain or suffering towards any of them.

Why we are not affaraid of the Sansara? If it is that much painful then why still we are love to five Upadanaskandha? Why we are not going to give up it? Because this five Upadanaskandha can be enjoyed. And also it gives effects too. But what we see is enjoyable status only. That's why we still love it. But Buddha and Bikkhu and other people who were/are in the Nibbana path had/have realized the effects of it.That's why they didn't/don't enjoy it. five Upadanaskandha is like a poisoned cake. we enjoy it without caring its painful effects in this Sansara.

There are three categories in the desires (Thanha)

• Kama Thanha - The desire to enjoy  the five Upadanaskandha          

• Bhawa Thanha  - The desire to make rebirths again and again in the Sansara and enjoy the five Upadanaskandha in that rebirths.

• Wibhawa Thanha  - Thinking that there is no Sansara and no rebirths, this is the only birth and only life and then enjoy  the five Upadanaskandha maximum.

So with these Thanha (desires) we keep continuing our birth and rebirths and it brings us endless pain and suffering. But unfortunately we are blind to see it yet!

Next post: Dukkha Nirodha Arya Sachcha (Four Noble Truths - Part 4)