There are eight hardships in life, namely: suffering from birth, suffering from old age, suffering from illness, suffering from death, parting from suffering when you love, suffering when you hate, suffering when you can't ask for it, and suffering when five yin flourishes. First, suffering: many people forget the suffering of being born. In fact, it goes without saying that at the time of birth, a baby weighing six pounds and eight pounds passed through a narrow birth door, which is beyond words. After leaving the mother's body, it is stimulated by the hot or cold air outside, and it is grabbed by the huge palm of the midwife, which is more painful than whipping the baby's delicate skin. The baby's crying after birth is caused by physical pain. Second, the old bitterness: the Tang Dynasty poem says: "The fair world is only white hair, and the nobles will not be spared." Being old is inevitable for anyone. Han Yu offered a sacrifice to Lang Wenyun, the twelfth man: "I am not forty years old, but I look pale and my teeth are shaken." At forty, it would be premature. However, even if you are gifted, or have the skills to learn, the above phenomenon will always happen at the age of 7 and 8. What's more, after decades of hard work, besides the decline of physiological function, the back pain, back pain, rheumatic stomach disease and so on caused by past hard work are unbearable pains. As for women, aging is even more cruel, because in addition to physical pain, women have the psychological pain of losing their youth. From bright eyebrows and white teeth, the whole country is beautiful, but the chicken skin and the crane hair are old, which makes people feel sorry, but who can escape this old routine? Third, suffering from illness: people have an indissoluble bond with illness since the day they fell to the ground. Teenagers have diseases such as smallpox and measles, middle-aged diseases such as gastric ulcer and tuberculosis, and old-aged diseases such as hypertension and heart disease. Some people may say that as long as there is money, why worry about curing diseases? In fact, the specific drugs are constantly emerging, and new diseases, such as polio and cancer, are increasing in recent years. Furthermore, medicine can cure physical diseases, but can medicine stone cure mental diseases such as neurasthenia, schizophrenia, paranoia and mania caused by intense social competition? Originally, the four fake bodies will inevitably have the disorder of cold and heat. When they are sick, they will lie on their sickbeds and suffer pain for a short time. If they are lingering on their sickbeds for years and interacting with drugs every day, how can this kind of pain be described? 4. Suffering from death: The life span of a machine made of steel is only a few years to several decades. How long can a man of flesh and blood last? Qin Huang and Han Wu sought the medicine of longevity, leaving only the laughing stock of the ages. Cover the universe, live and die, and go on and on. Life is death, achievements are bad, Farr is like this, and Ann is an exception? According to the Buddhist scriptures, if you don't think about heaven, you will live a long life of 84,, but the newspaper will still degenerate and you won't be able to leave The six great divisions in the wheel of karma. In that case, it is not surprising that people died! Helpless, "die before your ambition is paid", every deceased person has his unfinished ambition, so there are many people in the world who die unsatisfied, and at the same time, they are suffering from physical and mental pain, four major separations, and difficulty breathing. There are thousands of words in their hearts and they can't say a word. At this time, the charming child, surrounded by the couch, left life and death, miserable, especially when he was dying, what he did in his life, good and evil, was reflected in his mind one by one. For those who are good and innocent, they will feel gratified and peaceful, but for those who are evil and have a conscience, they will feel regret, pain and terror. At this time, because of the pain and terror, I was called to meet in hell, and the gods were dragged by karma and fell into evil ways. What is more painful than the so-called "everything can't be taken away, only the karma can be carried with me"? 5. Love parting from bitterness: As the saying goes, "Happy is happy to learn new things, sad is sad to learn new things." Life and death parting, human tragedy, youth widowed, middle-aged childless, of course, is extremely sad, even if it is not death parting, or seeking food and clothing, or forced by the situation, it will feel painful to leave the life that loves each other. However, there is no such thing as a feast that must come to an end. As close as father and son, as close as husband and wife, it is rare to be together for life, let alone anything else. All laws are impermanent, and the pain of parting is inevitable for anyone. Sixth, resentment will be bitter: as opposed to love parting, resentment will be bitter. A congenial friend, a lover who vows eternal love, a deeply loving husband and wife, or a child who is trying to live under his knees, or parting, everything can't be independent. But on the contrary, those ugly faces and boring language; Or conflicts of interest, two incompatible people, partial and get together. Like these disgusting people, if they can't see for life, won't their eyes be clean? However, the personnel problems in the society are numerous and complicated. "It's not that people who hate each other don't get together." In some situations, the more people who hate each other, the more they are arranged together, as if there is no more time to disperse. Isn't this extremely distressing? Seven, ask for nothing: if you want to get something, economic power can't reach it; If you want to seek a certain position, you can't find it. A man fell in love with B woman, but B woman preferred C man. My interest is to be an elite in the computer industry, but I have to be a waiter in an Internet cafe in order to eat. These are all hard to ask for. Don't ask for it, even if the first wish is obtained, the second wish is born immediately. The valley is easy to fill, and people's desires are difficult to level. Who will feel that everything is satisfied? If you are not satisfied, you want something, but you can't get it. Aren't you upset? Eight, the five yin is full of bitterness: the five yin is the five aggregates, and the five yin gathers into a body. If the fire is blazing, the first seven pains are born from this. The color yin is flourishing, the four major disorders are not harmonious, and there is the pain of disease. Suffering from Yin's exuberance, receiving and accepting, respectively, makes all kinds of sufferings turn to extremes: I want Yin's exuberance, I want to pursue each other, but I have love to leave, I hate meeting, and I can't ask for all kinds of sufferings. The yin flourishes, and it creates various industries, and it is the cause of later reporting, and it is constantly moving because of the line, and it has the pain of old age. Knowing the yin is flourishing, confusing and creating a business, three generations of circulation, and there is a pain of life and death. Sometimes in Buddhism, suffering is divided into three categories: suffering, bad suffering and suffering. Suffering: it is the pain we feel in our lives. Even if it is not pointed out in the Buddhist scriptures, we still think it is bitter. This includes the pain of birth, the pain of aging, the pain of pathological changes and the pain of death. Love is caused by social environment: that is, dear people can't be together; Seek not to suffer: it is the desire that cannot be achieved; Resentment will be bitter: it is complaining about the narrow road at home, but not looking up. And the five aggregates are full of pain: that is, the pain of imbalance between body and mind. Bad bitterness: refers to our usual happy feelings. Judging from the wisdom of Buddhism, what we call happiness is not real happiness, but its essence is also painful. For example, we want to eat when we are hungry and feel happy when we are full, but will we still feel happy if we continue to eat? When you are dirty, you feel happy taking a bath, but are you happy soaking in water for a long time? I feel happy watching TV when I am bored, but do you feel happy watching it day and night? It can be seen that our so-called happiness is due to the temporary psychological balance after we have a certain desire and are satisfied by external stimuli, so we feel happy. However, the essence of eating is not happiness. If the essence of eating is happiness, we should feel happy no matter how much we eat. However, when we eat steamed bread with a strong desire, we feel happy after eating one, two or three, and eat four, five or six times. Eating is like this, and all the happiness in the world through desire is the same, because this kind of pleasure can go bad, so it is called bad bitterness. To be bitter: to be bitter is to move the flow and change the meaning. Everything in the world is impermanent, which is the law of life in the universe. However, the world does not know this law and pursues eternity: I hope that the body will last forever, the family will last forever, the marriage will last forever, the career will last forever, the interpersonal relationship will last forever, and the love will last forever. In fact, there is nothing eternal in the world, and things are impermanent. Beautiful things are often short-lived and fleeting. Because our understanding is contrary to the fact of the world-action, there is action suffering.