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Suffering: everyone has suffered, but they just forget it. As far as human beings are concerned, the persecution suffered by all people at birth is suffering. When we live in the fetal period, the uterus is the smallest prison, and the hands and feet of the fetus can't stretch out and shrink into a ball, just like sitting in a prison, which is extremely painful. In addition, various impurities in the uterus, such as amniotic fluid and blood. We have to endure it, it's really bitter; As soon as the fetus is born, it will come out of the small vagina, just like two big mountains. Mothers suffer and babies suffer, so all mothers know that babies cry when they are born, which is very miserable. In addition, the baby's skin is very delicate, and it hurts like a needle when it comes into contact with hot and cold air at birth. In addition, the fetus feels safer in the mother's belly, and it is like being lost when it is born. It is helpless, bitter and scared to death, so life is a kind of bitterness.
Old bitterness: our body and mind are weak and decadent, giving birth to all kinds of suffering, aging, and slowly disobedience is useless; And our hearts are getting weaker and weaker, our thinking is getting slower and slower, and everything is not as good as people, so we feel very painful; Old people are useless, wrinkled, hunchbacked, senile, unable to do things, and suffering to death. Some old people have nothing to do at home, and they are afraid of being abandoned by their children, lonely and alienated, and it is rare to find warmth and affection; When he was young and strong, the wedding was full of energy and spirit. No one expected that his situation in his later years was so lonely, lonely and desolate.
Sickness: Four major disorders of the body, full of diseases, so suffering. There are all kinds of diseases, some are mild, some are serious, and some dark diseases are not easy to find, leading to sudden illness and death. The most terrible thing is toothache, so that your family will give you three points. Really speaking, "eating" is a disease, and greed is also a disease, but these are all heart diseases, and here we are talking about physical diseases. Our bodies, like machines, will eventually degenerate, and degeneration is pain.
Death is bitter: we enjoy life, or die of illness, or die of natural and man-made disasters. At the end of life, the sight of death is unbearable and the heart of terror arises spontaneously. Some people turn blue with fear when they die, and they die horribly. Some people don't want to die when they are dead, and they hold hands tightly. If one day you find that your hands can't move, it will be very painful; When people are dying, all parts of their bodies can't move slowly, and their hearts must be very scared. This is a painful death. Everyone knows that birth, illness and death are bitter, and even they are numb and helpless to accept it; Everyone said they were going to die anyway. What do they want it to do? But nobody said he was going to get sick anyway, so why bother? When you are sick, you will croak, but when you are sick, you can't stand it. When death comes, you talk big and talk big. When it comes, you are afraid of death. If someone points a knife at you, you will be scared to death, that is, afraid of death-a bitter death; Before I met you, I was afraid of this, let alone when my death came.
Resentment can be bitter: you can't avoid enemies, and you often meet each other. This is called resentment. For example, a couple, with a happy marriage and love, later quarreled and fell out, but for the sake of children, the relationship between husband and wife is difficult to break up, and they have to meet and face every day; I am still a wage earner, who is at odds with my boss. I bend over for family planning and five buckets of rice, and I see my boss I don't like every day; There are some colleagues who quarreled with you once and stopped talking when they met. For some reason, you can't live without him and have to meet him every day. This is that resentment can be bitter.
Love is bitter: it is bitter to be separated from the closest person and the person you love. Because of some karma, the person you love is far away from you, and you can't bear it, so you feel bitter. For example, parents, their daughters get married or their sons go abroad to study. Missing always starts after breaking up, and they often worry about it. Some shed tears and cry; Some can't sleep or eat. These are not too serious, what is serious is the love between men and women, but the people who love each other are separated, so many couples jump off a building to double suicide. There are Romeo and Juliet in the west; In the east, there are Liang Zhu. These touching great love stories often make people who sympathize with them cry.
We use various methods and means to get what we like or lofty ideals, but we still can't get results. This is called making something out of nothing. It is the most common suffering, because people have too many desires, too many desires we can't achieve or get, so it is suffering.
What do we think of the five aggregates? (that is, the aggregation of five kinds of body and mind: color, acceptance, thinking, action and knowledge), and the persistence of body and mind is called five senses. Take means take. Take the moment of life and death, it has been moving and changing, so it is bitter.
Reference link: Eight Bitters-Baidu Encyclopedia