Learn to suffer || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Dealing with painful thoughts || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2022)

Transcript

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.