Difference between revisions of "Eight difficulties"

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eight difficulties (八難). One has either no opportunity or no motivation to see a Buddha or hear His Dharma, while in any of the eight difficulties:
(1) as a hell-dweller;
(2) as a hungry ghost;
(3) as an animal;
(4) as an inhabitant of Uttarakuru, the northern continent, where life is too pleasant;
(5) in deep meditation in a formless heaven;
(6) being blind, deaf, or mute;
(7) as a worldly eloquent intellectual;
(8) in the period between the presence of one Buddha and the next.

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-'''eight difficulties''' (八難). One has either no opportunity or no motivation to see a Buddha or hear His Dharma, while in any of the eight difficulties:
+[[eight difficulties]] ([[八難]]). One has either no opportunity or no [[motivation]] to see a [[Buddha]] or hear His [[Dharma]], while in any of the eight difficulties:
 (1) as a hell-dweller;
-(2) as a hungry ghost;
+(2) as a [[hungry ghost]];
-(3) as an animal;
+(3) as an [[animal]];
-(4) as an inhabitant of Uttarakuru, the northern continent, where life is too pleasant;
+(4) as an inhabitant of [[Uttarakuru]], the northern continent, where [[life]] is too [[pleasant]];
-(5) in deep meditation in a formless heaven;
+(5) in deep [[meditation]] in a [[formless]] [[heaven]];
-(6) being blind, deaf, or mute;
+(6) being blind, [[deaf]], or mute;
-(7) as a worldly eloquent intellectual;
+(7) as a [[worldly]] eloquent [[intellectual]];
-(8) in the period between the presence of one Buddha and the next.
+(8) in the period between the presence of one [[Buddha]] and the next.
 </poem>
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