Suffering about pain. Suffering about change. Suffering of mental proliferation (mental concocting; mental constructing; attachment). Bhikkhu Bodhi below, with a neutral translation:
Bhikkhus, there are these three kinds of suffering. What three? Suffering due to pain, suffering due to formations, suffering due to change. These are the three kinds of suffering. The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed for direct knowledge of these three kinds of suffering, for the full understanding of them, for their utter destruction, for their abandoning.”
https://suttacentral.net/sn45.165/en/bodhi
SN 22.1 includes the word "vipariṇāma" and shows the translation "suffering
of change" is probably inaccurate because SN 22.1 appears to show change (vipariṇāma) can be experienced without suffering. SN 22.1 appears to show it is the clinging to "
I am changing" that is the suffering (rather than the change itself).
They’re obsessed with the thought: ‘I am consciousness, consciousness is mine!’ But that consciousness of theirs decays and perishes,
Tassa ‘ahaṃ viññāṇaṃ, mama viññāṇan’ti pariyuṭṭhaṭṭhāyino, taṃ viññāṇaṃ vipariṇamati aññathā hoti.
which gives rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
They’re not obsessed with the thought: ‘I am consciousness, consciousness is mine!’ So when that consciousness of theirs decays and perishes,
Tassa ‘ahaṃ viññāṇaṃ, mama viññāṇan’ti apariyuṭṭhaṭṭhāyino, taṃ viññāṇaṃ vipariṇamati aññathā hoti.
it doesn’t give rise to sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress.
Tassa viññāṇavipariṇāmaññathābhāvā nuppajjanti sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā
https://suttacentral.net/sn22.1/en/sujato
Similar,
SN 36.6 shows "suffering
of pain" is probably inaccurate because SN 36.6 shows physical pain can occur without mental suffering.
Srilankaputra wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 3:30 amNote: Among these sankharadukkha is considered foremost. From dhammapada, verse 203
"sankharaparama dukha"
The above is consistent with my interpretation. The supreme suffering is the suffering of mental proliferating or attachment; as was taught in the 1st noble truth about "upadana".
Thank you!