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Why Do People Suffer?

25/04/2026

Based on reality and Buddhist teachings, the reasons why people suffer can be briefly summarized as "excessive desire" and "a lack of understanding of the truth of the world." The main points are as follows:

Attachment / Clinging (Upadāna): We often hold onto the belief that this body, this mind, or various objects are permanently "ours." When these things change, deteriorate, or do not go the way we want them to,

we experience suffering.

Craving / Desire (Taṇhā):

Kāma-taṇhā (Craving for sensual pleasures): Wanting things we like (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical touch).

Bhava-taṇhā (Craving for existence/becoming): Wanting to be this or that or wanting a situation to remain exactly as we desire forever.

Vibhava-taṇhā (Craving for non-existence): Wanting things not to be a certain way or wanting things we dislike disappearing.

Resisting the Laws of Nature (The Three Marks of Existence / Ti-lakkhaṇa): Everything in this world is impermanent (Anicca), incapable of remaining in the same state (Dukkha), and truly uncontrollable / non-self (Anattā). However, our minds often resist these natural laws—for example, by wanting happiness to stay with us forever, or by not wanting to age or get sick.

Mental Proliferation / Overthinking (Papañca): Often, we do not suffer because of the actual events that happen, but because of the "thoughts" we fabricate and add onto them. Examples include anxiously worrying about a future that hasn't arrived or excessively dwelling on the past.

To put it simply: Suffering occurs when "reality" does not align with our "expectations."

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