Buddhists often say: What do five poisons, six desires, seven emotions, eight sufferings, nine difficulties, and ten difficulties mean?

The Five Poisons, Six Desires, Seven Emotions, Eight Sufferings, Nine Difficulties and Ten Calamities are concepts in Buddhism that are used to describe the various trials and tribulations that people experience in life.

Specifically:

Five poisons: refers to the five kinds of troubles such as greed, anger, ignorance, delusion and pride, which are the root causes of people's suffering.

Six desires: refers to the six roots of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. They are connected with external things. People often suffer from the desire for these things.

Seven emotions: refers to seven emotions such as joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and surprise. These emotions are also one of the causes of people's pain.

The eight sufferings: refers to the eight sufferings of birth, old age, illness, death, resentment, separation from love, failure to seek, and the rise and fall of the five yin. These sufferings are the inevitable realities of life.

Nine Difficulties: It refers to nine kinds of difficult problems that are difficult to overcome, such as difficulty in birth, difficulty in old age, difficulty in illness, difficulty in separation from love, difficulty in meeting resentment and hatred, difficulty in not getting what you want, difficulty in path, difficulty in practice, difficulty in attaining fruition.

Ten kalpas: refers to the ten kalpas that people need to go through in order to be freed from reincarnation, including beginningless kalpas, infinite kalpas, boundless kalpas, etc.

In Buddhism, through spiritual practice and the practice of compassion, people can reduce or eliminate these pains and sufferings and achieve spiritual peace and liberation