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What is the importance of the contemplation of dukkha for meditation?

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Dukkha is the essence of Buddhist meditation.

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The Buddha said the

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full realization of dukkha is the first noble truth.

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That's what leads you to give up the second noble truth, which is clinging.

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When you see dukkha, and it doesn't mean thinking about dukkha, it means actually contemplating those things that are dukkha.

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And when you see them as dukkha, when you're able to see that they are unsatisfying, then you will give them up.

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You will give up the second noble truth, realize the third noble truth.

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This is the path, which is the fourth noble truth.