suffering - Concepts

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Concepts

Dukkha - The Buddhist concept of suffering, dissatisfaction, and the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned existence.
Attachment - Psychological clinging to experiences, outcomes, people, or things that causes suffering when they change or are lost.
The Second Arrow - A Buddhist parable teaching that while we cannot control external pain (the first arrow), we can choose not to inflict additional suffering on ourselves through our reactions (the second arrow).
Will to Live - Schopenhauer's concept of a blind, irrational striving force that drives all living beings and is the fundamental source of suffering.
Philosophical Pessimism - The philosophical tradition holding that existence is fundamentally characterized by suffering and that life contains more pain than happiness.
Negative Happiness - Schopenhauer's view that happiness is fundamentally the absence of suffering and desire rather than the presence of positive pleasure.
Four Noble Truths - The Buddha's core teaching on the nature of suffering and the path to liberation.