Our Sunday sermon is going to be about something I think about quite a lot, which is the nature of suffering. Let us begin our examination of this topic with some notable precepts from various world faiths.

Buddhism
The First Noble Truth (Dukkha) describes suffering as a fundamental reality to be understood and overcome: “Birth is suffering; ageing is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering…in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.”