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Ep. 13 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing

Dr. John Vervaeke

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The Power of Self-Destructive Behavior

Dukkha is a word for this kind of loss that's often translated as suffering, which is dukkha. Dukkha again does not mean pain. It means like an empty gap that's sort of dirty so that as things are moving within it, they're destroying themselves. So realize that all of your life is threatened, very really threatened, existentially threatened, by a capacity for self-destructive behavior.

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