Episode 2 - The Nature of Human Suffering

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[@Goozeeeee]

Great stuff. I’m reminded how much ACT borrows from Buddhism in so many ways as you explain here. The pain of presence and absence, the struggle with the conceptual self, the acknowledgment of suffering. I love the resurgence of these ideas in the modern day.

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Wow. This helps a lot. Especially since everyone is obsessed with the phrase... “stay positive “

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[@bmovie5002]

It is what it is. Took me 53 years to learn this.

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Thanks to you I'm starting to listen more to myself

[@sjferguson]

Oh my goodness. This has got to be the most conscice explanation of suffering that i have ever heard. I'm definitely sharing this podcast! You really broke it down in very understandable terms. I've been studying the Dharma for awhile now and i have a fair grasp of this concept but you really put it in a new light for me. Wonderful segment ❤🙏

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Thank You and Namo Budhaya 🙏🏻

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This is so helpful right now.

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I want to recommend you to show the documentaries because i'm stupid at english but I like to listen your voice . Thanks a lot. I want to read carefully and slowly.

[@professorb3744]

I believe what you are meaning to ask him for is what we call “captions” in English. Captions is a word that represents a transcription of the spoken word into written word and played along with the video

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Thank you. Helps a lot all this knowledge.

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I’ve been on this journey for about 10 years now and you’re talks are very clear and easy to grasp. Glad I stumbled upon you. Tashi delek

[@ohmbasa]

This is very useful! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheDianaJC]

This is really well done! Congratulations. I have been trying to get into Buddhism for a while. I knew about the four noble truths, but I never really understood them. This is the best introduction to Buddhism I have found. I can see the Hinduism influence, in the past I tried to learn about Hinduism and I remember learning about Raga and Dvesha, desire and aversion, also as the foundations of pain in life.

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[@chinwahyin]

Excellent. Sadhu. Sadhu.Sadhu. _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

[@yanaypuente]

Unfortunately, I experience the type of suffering "wanting life to be other than it is" as a condition for my happiness. You nailed Noah! 👌 Now, how to change the way we look at things? By looking at things with gratitude. Especially those things that I want to be other than they are. ✌

[@Existentialist-earthling52]

I've thought for a while now: Pain is a fact, growth is a choice.

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

Buddha said the root of all suffering is Desire and/or Attachment, yet as the sentient, self-aware, conscious beings, capable of intelligence we are, desire and attachment will spring forth from that. Attachment is born of procreation and the associated to pair bonding in the rearing of the offspring. It was intended for humans to suffer or it wouldn't be one of the absolutes of human life...pain, suffering, death and learning. No human has escaped those 4. All other things being possible, yes, but not guaranteed. When you think about it since death is a guarantee of life here, it wouldn't be a huge stretch to suggest that, here, life is a death sentence.

[@professorb3744]

What is secularism? Is Secular Buddhism different from Buddhism?

[@Patrick-qm7wf]

There is unnecessary suffering and pain in this world. We each share in this suffering as human animals and non human animals as well. Unnecessary suffering is a part of life weather we want it or not. What we do about it is the important thing. We learn to love, have compassion, and be kind. Human kindness is greater than any answer religion gives about suffering. Unnecessary suffering/pain in this universe is not God's plan, and any God who has that plan is a moral monster and not worthy of my worship. Just be a kind human and relieve human animal and non human animal suffering and pains. Kindness makes for a better world.