Full Video: Dealing with painful thoughts || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2022)
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00:00If current situations have pain, ask yourself what makes you bear that pain.
00:04If you are bearing the pain to preserve your bondages, then you are on your own enemy.
00:08If you are bearing the pain to fight your bondages, then the pain is worth it.
00:12Pain is unavoidable. Pain is the very fact of life.
00:16The question is, what is it that you suffer the pain for?
00:19And believe me, there is nobody who doesn't have to suffer.
00:23Look around yourself, what do you see?
00:25If you look honestly and deeply enough, you will see a lot of suffering.
00:28Suffering is, suffer for the right cause.
00:32That's the best you can do.
00:33The solution to suffering is not a state of no suffering.
00:36The solution to suffering is right suffering.
00:38And to complete the story, I would say, if you suffer rightly,
00:42then slowly your tendency to suffer keeps reducing.