The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!
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sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
to endure (years of suffering)
sour expression on one's face
bitter sweet
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) / the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
(slang) prison
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
gallbladder
wormwood / Artemisia absinthium
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
endive
to entreat piteously / to implore
endive
Ixeris denticulata
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
suffering / distress
ascetic practice
ascetic monk
penance (to atone for a sin)
to admonish strenuously
wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
(loanword) coup d'état
(loanword) coup d'état
(coll.) miserable / wretched
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦[], the cause of suffering is desire 集[], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭[], the way 道[] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[] / also called 四諦|四谛[]
deep grief / extensive sorrow
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
to spare no effort
to make nothing of hardships
second persecution
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom) / fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits
to pour out one's grievances
see 備嘗辛苦|备尝辛苦[]
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
to treat (sb) unjustly / anguish caused by an injustice
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