Michael Jackson, "King of Pop," dies Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest today. Officials confirm that Michael Jackson collapsed, went into a coma, and never came back as he was worked on in an L.A. hospital today.Dukkha ("suffering, sadness") definition:
"Now this is the Noble Truth of dukkha: Birth, aging, death; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair; connection to the unloved; separation from the loved; not getting what one wants. In short, the Five Aggregates are dukkha" (SN 56.11).
Ven. Sariputra explains
"Now what, friends, is the Noble Truth of dukkha? Birth, aging, death; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair; connection with the unwanted; separation from the loved; not getting what one wants. In short, the Five Aggregates are dukkha....
"And what is aging? Whatever wearing away, decrepitude, brokenness, graying, wrinkling, loss of life-force, weakening of the faculties of the various beings in this or that plane of existence is called aging.
"And what is death? Whatever ceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, completion of lifespan, break up of the Five Aggregates, casting off of body (form), interruption of the life faculty is called death" (MN 141).
Fanatic Jake Byrd reacting to jury decision in Jackson's last trial (Jimmy Kimmel)
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