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Dukkha has three different meanings:

1. Painful feeling (dukkha vedana)
2. Inherent unsatisfactoriness (dukkha lakkhana or viparinama dukkha)
3. Mental concocting (sankhara dukkha)

Element, I have not read yet the suttas, but in your understanding, those this three aspects of Dukkha are separate "things" or maybe levels where in a non mindfull state can lead the mind to one another. Are this three states of mind really separate entities?

I can tell that the experience of each can lead to the experience of the others. For example, many times I go through painfull feelings... this painfull feelings, if the mind is not mindful, can lead to an inherent unsatisfactoriness because with the painful feeling comes a mental concoting about "your - self" becoming into anguish and disstress, like saying "Oh, how much I hate to go through this experience..."

There is a painful feeling but we add to it many additional ideas that lead to think about a personal painful existence... at that moment the mind is in mental concoting but if this is established then there can sprout a kind of Inherent unsatisfactoriness also after this event.

In short, when I see those three dukkha "categories" I can see a kind of gradient of depth. If it is so, if there is mindfullness about the painful feeling we can work it so not to reach Inherent Unsatisfactoriness or Mental Concocting.

Here by painful experience I understand any sort of experience that becomes painful like being attached to what has to fade awaya or trying to run away from things we do not like. So that hate and greed are painful experiences.

I'll be happy having your comments

Thanks,