Samvega &mdash; dharma notes https://paper.wf/dharma-notes/tag:Samvega 人人人 notes on the way 人人人 Fri, 15 May 2026 03:05:56 +0000 Samvega https://paper.wf/dharma-notes/blockquote-samvega-was-what-the-young-prince-siddhartha-felt-on-his-first <![CDATA[blockquoteSaṁvega was what the young Prince Siddhartha felt on his first exposure to aging, illness, and death. It’s a hard word to translate because it covers such a complex range—at least three clusters of feelings at once: the oppressive sense of dismay, terror, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it’s normally lived; a chastening sense of our own complicity, complacency, and foolishness in having let ourselves live so blindly; and an anxious sense of urgency in trying to find a way out of the meaningless cycle. This is a cluster of feelings that we’ve all experienced at one time or another in the process of growing up, but I know of no single English term that adequately covers all three. Such a term would be useful to have, and maybe that’s reason enough for simply adopting the word saṁvega into our language. - Thanissaro Bhikkhu /blockquote https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/NobleStrategy/Section0004.html #Dharma #Samvega ThanissaroBhikkhu #fediverse #networking @dharma-notes@paper.wf @dharma@a.gup.pe @ThanissaroBhikkhu@a.gup.pe]]> Saṁvega was what the young Prince Siddhartha felt on his first exposure to aging, illness, and death. It’s a hard word to translate because it covers such a complex range—at least three clusters of feelings at once: the oppressive sense of dismay, terror, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it’s normally lived; a chastening sense of our own complicity, complacency, and foolishness in having let ourselves live so blindly; and an anxious sense of urgency in trying to find a way out of the meaningless cycle. This is a cluster of feelings that we’ve all experienced at one time or another in the process of growing up, but I know of no single English term that adequately covers all three. Such a term would be useful to have, and maybe that’s reason enough for simply adopting the word saṁvega into our language. - Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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