Abstract

This qualitative research consists of three objectives namely:  (1) to study Schopenhauer’s main work, ”The World as Will and Representation” contained there the concept of suffering. (2) to study the Four Noble Truths as part of the Theravāda Buddhist Tradition, in particular the concept of suffering (dukkha), (3) to compare Schopenhauer’s concept of suffering on the” World as Will and Representation” compare to the Buddhist concept of suffering (dukkha) in Buddhism. Essential for the understanding of the complexity of suffering is it necessary to study (dukkha), as the intrinsic of the Fourth Noble Truths, part of the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, given in the first sermon of the Buddha and many others Suttas. The Four Noble Truths contain the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. The realization of suffering (dukkha) is not just how one feel but is instead a nature’s inherent in the world as one experience it, and the meaning of the Four Truths, it means for Nibbana to be the cessation of suffering, it is including birth, sickness, death and loos.                                                              

For Schopenhauer life is suffering, which mean all life and everything that lives. Suffering is the direct and immediate object of life; our existence must entirely fail of its aim. Suffering and misfortune are the general rule in life, not the exception. He believes that life is suffering, but the World is mere a Representation and the cause of all suffering is the will. 

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