Viparinama-dukkha

Translated as “the suffering of change”. It's the kind of unpleasantness that comes from losing things that make us feel comfortable or seen.

 It's the kind of unpleasantness that comes from losing things that make us feel comfortable or seen. It’s the feeling that hits us when we move to a new place and lose access to our favorite grocery store, or when a teenager moves out to college, or when the hours of the gym change, forcing us to change our routine. It’s odd because even “positive” change can make us feel this way. Buddhism teaches that this kind of suffering comes from a failure to perceive one of the “marks of existence”, namely impermanence (anicca or anitya), which reminds us that everything, good and bad, is temporary.