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Episode 46: Watkins Magazine Interview

Rupert Spira Podcast

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Is Suffering a Sign of Intelligence?

Suffering is a symmetrical situation in the mind. When we're suffering, it's an intelligent signal from the mind telling us you have overlooked the nature of your own being and as a result, you have invested your desire for happiness in objective experience. Pause, instead of just seeking satisfaction in the object, which can never fully satisfy you, pause, investigate the source of your suffering. I mean, here you come back. I thinkou never to leave to things like martyrdom, unto the more extreme forms of the lives of the saints of different religions or asceticism. A we tend to think of suffering... i'm certainly that.

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