Dukkhatā
					
					dukkhatā,(abstr.noun fr.dukkha):'the state of suffering',painfulness,unpleasantness,the unsatisfactoriness of existence."There are three kinds of suffering:(1) suffering as pain (dukkha-dukkhatā),(2) the suffering inherent in the formations (saṅkhāra-dukkhatā),(3) the suffering in change (vipariṇāma-dukkhatā)" (S.XLV,165; D.33).
(1) is the bodily or mental feeling of pain as actual]y felt.(2) refers to the oppressive nature of all formations of existence (i.e.all conditioned phenomena),due to their continual arising and passing away; this includes also experiences associated with neutral feeling.(3) refers to bodily and mental pleasant feelings,"because they are the cause for the arising of pain when they change" (Vis.M.XIV,34f).