Speaker 1
And every human suffers. Every life form suffers, because life is hard and challenging and precarious for every life form. From the moment life comes into being, life is challenging and precarious. For humans, for animals, for plants. Every form encounters obstacles in its attempt to grow and expand. And it continuously encounters obstacles to its expansion. Every human, in one form or another, if you come into this world very quickly, you'll find obstacles, seeming obstacles to your expansion and growth and well being and flowering. I think you can all, if you think about your so called life, how many obstacles life seems to have put in your path towards happiness. And some people perceive life as life continuously sabotizing my attempts to find happiness. Why is that? And then they have the strange theories that god is against me, or whatever the theory is. But it does seem like, and this is related to the buddhis term duca or suffering. Wherever you go, you will find life is sometimes helpful. And then obstacles. Again, some people believe if you only protractis positive thinking continuously, you will no longer encounter obstacles. But that, unfortunately, is not the case. Positive thinking is a great thing, can be extremely helpful and bring about certain shifts in you, but it does not free you from experiencing the obstacles that life will put onyo in your path and the challenges that come. So those obstacles, whether they come in the form of loss, or illness or relationship problems, many of them arise from their own mind. Because your mind creates an enormous amount of problems that are quite unnecessary, but the mind doesn't know that. So the mind creates an enormous amount of conflict that is unnecessary in your life. That's one kind of obstacle, is your own mind. And again, you are you need to experience the consequences of the obstacles that your own mind creates, the cronflicts and the unnecessary problems that your own mind, because you're identify it with the mind, creates, you need to experience the suffering that you create for yourself out of that unconsciousness of conscioues means completely identifying with the mind, the egoic mind, which in many cases transforms challenges, which could be solved easily, into much bigger problems. So you have theid your mind created obstacles that you ultimately create yourself, because you are not conscious enough. And then you acounter suffering. This is level of suffering. And this is you need to experience the suffering that comes through unconscious use of the mind in order to awaken.