【Further Meditation on Suffering 希求解脱】 the suffering of change (one of the three types of suffering) 1 三苦之坏苦 1

【Further Meditation on Suffering】- the suffering of change (one of the three types of suffering) 1

【Pleasant feelings experienced by beings in cyclic existence are like the pleasure felt when cool water is applied to an inflamed boil or carbuncle: as the temporary feeling fades, the pain reasserts itself. This is called the suffering of change】

What are the "three types of suffering"? They are the suffering of pain, the suffering of change and the suffering of conditionality. Each is a type of suffering. The first one is the suffering of change. For this suffering of change, he gives an analogy. It is much like "an inflamed boil or carbuncle." The inflamed boil, ah, it feels like it's burning so much, and you feel terrible! So you would put some water on it. Ah, it would cool for a moment and it would seem like happiness. The so-called pleasures that we feel in this cyclic existence are exactly this, exactly this. Actually, this in itself is not happiness. When it fades, there'll be all sorts of suffering. Therefore to sprinkle some cold water on an inflamed boil or carbuncle may bring some pleasure, but when the carbuncle breaks, ah, there is enormous pain! Hence these two are the suffering of change. The pleasure that it brings is not worthwhile at all.

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71B 12’46” Vol 9 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P238 L10
English Lamrim Vol 1 P289

日常师父法语📡71B 12’46”手抄稿第9册P238 L10

希求解脱 : 三苦之坏苦 1

【第三修三苦者。谓譬如极热或疮或痈，若于其上洒以冷水，似为安乐，于生死中所有乐受，若坏灭时，还起众苦，故名坏苦。】

“三苦”是什么呢？就是苦苦、乐苦以及行苦，这么一个一样。第一个是乐苦，乐苦他举一个譬喻，就像“极热或疮或痈”，那个生的疮，唉呀，那个地方烫得要命啊，难受得要命啊！然后呢上面弄一点水，哎呀，凉一下，就好像是安乐。我们生死当中所受的这个所谓快乐，也就是这个，也就是这个。其实这个本身并不是快乐，坏灭的时候呢，还要这种种的痛苦。这个痈跟疮洒一点凉水觉得安乐，然后呢这个疮破的时候，唉呀，那是绝大的痛苦啊！所以这个两个是坏苦，快乐是一无可取