Lam Rim Sunday School
A Path of Spiritual Growth
Lesson 22 - The First Noble Truth:
Dukkha ("Suffering")


What is dukkha?
Stress?
Suffering?
Pain?
Distress?
Discontent?
Anguish?
Yes!
Birth, Aging, Sickness, Death
Association with the unpleasant
Separation from the pleasant
Not to achieve what one desires
What kinds of dukkha?
The Suffering of Pain
The Suffering of Change
Pervasive Suffering
Understanding suffering
prepares us to discover
its causes,
its cessation,
and the path beyond.