Besides suffering other translations of the pali word
dukkha include unsatisfactoriness, dis-ease, and instabillty.All these words point to the fact that on conditioned phenomenon can provide true happiness in our lives. The first step in a spiritual life is to look very closely and honestly at our experience of life and see that there is suffering.we tend to overlook or ignore or just blindly react to the unpleasant, so it continually haunts us. Yet although physical suffering is a natural aspect of our lives, we can learn to trancend mental suffering.