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This Buddhist source identifies the first noble truth as dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), enumerating birth, aging, sickness, death, and related experiences; it does not identify the first teaching as the claim that life is an illusion. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: 1. The Truth of Suffering · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:fa961776ef962497a8c53d4267f10e3b4cb6383e854ce880a482bce287e55712

The noble truth of suffering (dukkha) is this: birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; disassociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering. In brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.