Buddhism: Life is Suffering

If you’ve ever felt like your life is an endless wave of suffering, you’re not alone. Everything we hear is news of things going from bad to worse.

How do we thrive amidst this chaos? How do we find peace when it feels like a storm? These are the questions that Buddhism seeks to answer.

[anthropocene-]

Desire is suffering. And we suffer in imaginaition than in reality.

[JoshTheWhale]

"YouTube is suffering" is the perfect shower thought, because the platforms are becoming the literal algorithms of desire, with ads that make profit when they influence our desire. 🤯

[conflict]

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

[vibetech]

Buddhism could be the solution to fundamental philosophical questions and our mental health issues

[dennisdolan]

Clear, logical and balanced presentation .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you from a Catholic brother. God bless all who embrace such a noble goal!😎

[kraytwinsmanor]

A great teacher on all things Buddhism is the legendary Thich Nhat Hanh in case anyone is searching. His books are really good!

[alisharickha]

it is not a video, your videos are itself a eye opener

[literallynobody]

I came across buddism bc of psychedelics I think it's interesting how the things I've seen on trips and buddism go hand in hand and I've been a Baptist Christian my whole life

[squishyushi]

As a sort of hedonistic person for most of my life, I’ve had moments of discipline and I know that my life would be “better” if I let go of my addictions and slept right. But during my meditations and my dip into the “Gateway process” (still learning it and studying the declassified files and tapes) I’ve constantly come back to the question of “if I’m here for a short time regardless and tomorrow isn’t promised to have me in it, then why not enjoy as much as I want without hurting others?” And I know that’s just the addiction talking but also why not indulge my body while I’m here? I smoke weed and drink soda, I want to look a certain way and act a certain way, why deny my human form these pleasures?

Edit: also I’ve developed my world view to a point where I believe we are just shells, like we are a “VR experience” for our souls, we put on the suit and come into this game we call life, and there’s many many many infinite amounts of possibilities and scenarios that may take place but it’s all just a game, and my only conflict with that view currently is that suffering and pain exist and the people not enjoying their lives would probably say they did not choose to be in pain and or suffering. But I also look at it like this: if you were an infinite cosmic being and you had nothing to do for eternity, at least for me, I’d be doing exactly what Near Death Experience-ers describe the afterlife as, which is that we are all one and we are each just individual souls who recognize they are part of the one but also are their own beings who can make separate free will choices. Part of living forever means you’d eventually be sick and tired of pleasures, you’d want some pain to spice things up and or you’d want to be the bad guy. So idk. It makes sense to me? But also I feel like sometimes I can’t just say that because then people would assume I think ‘it’s fair for those suffering right now to continue doing so’ and I do not think that. Even though it’s a game, we shouldn’t be actively sabotaging or hurting others. I think a goal of the game would be to achieve a good ending. And I believe their may also be universes where we get the bad ending and shit really goes bad, there’s probably realities where I don’t exist or the human race never evolved the way we did to have larger brains and so we died off. I’m just saying I would like to get the good ending, I don’t think anyone should be suffering if we can help them and currently we have a small group of people hoarding the wealth of the planet, we need to make the world a better place and tax the rich more, pay workers fair wages, abolish the police system and start a new system from the ground up, same with our governments, make modern rules that aren’t allowing the same old fucks to continue fucking over the world because they can’t be bothered or they might lose money if they change certain laws

[Coldlight]

Best video you ever made so far. Keep it up.

[BangMaster]

How would you be able to define happiness, beauty, pleasure, good, harmony, peace, bliss, and love without its counterparts.
The World is not all 100% only suffering. We suffer more in our minds than in reality. The world has aspects of suffering and aspects of bliss. It is for the most part our reaction to life that can cause suffering.
Unless you are seriously physically or mentally injured to the point of not being able to heal, you're not really suffering. Disease, injury, financial hardships, etc...are momentary suffering, not permanent suffering.
And, what doesn't kill you, does make you stronger, so in the future, you won't suffer as much or even at all from the same type of hardship.
Life is neutral for the most part, it is our choices and actions that can bring in suffering or happiness along the journey.

[Someone_wrf]

"Life is suffering but there's meaning in that suffering"

[SeoulSold]

Have you thought about expanding to other platforms? Like uploading the audio to Spotify.

[mandarvaze]

A few very important corrections here: Buddha did not teach lessons on dharma Buddha taught only and only a technique of meditation called “vipassna” and that’s it. Buddha did not care about philosophy, he was more interested in getting to the awareness than the intellectual entertainment.

[Harthikreddyy]

Im ready to start fresh new friends new job new place new life.

[njaraganumaina]

Ater you told me that I wasbreathing manually, I was unable to breath normally for about 30 seconds. Thanks for that.👍

[Auburnisntmyrealname]

I just want u to know that ur death video really helped me calm my fear of death and improve my Christian faith. Keep on making theese videos, they help people❤

[pow]

Nirvana is a state with an overwhelming feeling of being free from suffering, everything else is suffering. Since a person cannot live their life in nirvana, life is suffering.

The meaning of life is to live.

There will never be another today.

[gatch]

Point your mind towards the goal but don't introduce tension to it.

[TenderWhale]

Why are we still here, just to suffer?