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.
