The Buddha Did Not Teach an End to Suffering
<p>It has become normative and conventional to translate the Buddhist term “dukkha” as “suffering.” This is a bad translation. “Suffering” is not what the Buddha meant by “dukkha.”</p>
<p>Translating terms about concepts is always tricky because often the closest words in the target language don’t mean quite the same thing. That’s part of the problem with “dukkha.” But there’s an even bigger problem. The term subtly shifted in meaning over the thousands of years since the Buddha spoke about dukkha. Even though the word has been in continuous usage, it now no longer means what it did when the Buddha said it.</p>
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