#6 and #7 differentiate "pain" and "distress" as physical pain or mental pain. Yet the terms for "sorrow, lamentation, despair" are not clearly indicated as mental or physical.
Any ideas? I doubt the Buddha would be redundant in those 3 terms, so there's some unique nuance of dukkha that is being expressed in those 3 terms...

-fk




Conventional aspects of Dukkha in more detail [M 141]

1. Birth

Whatever birth, taking birth, descent, coming-to-be, coming-forth, appearance of aggregates, & acquisition of [sense] media of the various beings in this or that group of beings

2. Aging



Whatever aging, decrepitude, brokenness, graying, wrinkling, decline of life-force, weakening of the faculties of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called aging.

3. Death



Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break up of the aggregates, casting off of the body, interruption in the life faculty of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called death.

4. Sorrow



Whatever sorrow, sorrowing, sadness, inward sorrow, inward sadness of anyone suffering from misfortune, touched by a painful thing, that is called sorrow.

5. Lament

Whatever crying, grieving, lamenting, weeping, wailing, lamentation of anyone suffering from misfortune, touched by a painful thing, that is called lamentation.

6. Pain



Whatever is experienced as bodily pain, bodily discomfort, pain or discomfort born of bodily contact, that is called pain.

7. Distress

Whatever is experienced as mental pain, mental discomfort, pain or discomfort born of mental contact, that is called distress.

8. Despair

Whatever despair, despondency, desperation of anyone suffering from misfortune, touched by a painful thing, that is called despair

9. not getting what one wants



In beings subject to birth, the wish arises, 'O, may we not be subject to birth, and may birth not come to us.' But this is not be achieved by wishing. This is the stress of not getting what one wants. In beings subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair, the wish arises, 'O, may we not be subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair, and may aging... illness... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair not come to us.' But this is not to be achieved by wishing.


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