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Episode 46: Watkins Magazine Interview

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Is There a Third Type of Suffering?

Suffering of people who are imprisoned or tortured is an ultimate kind of suffering i think most of us would sensibly seek to avoid if we could. But all those are ex extreme exampleso where am physical pain, discomfort, danger, abuse. So the kind of resistance one would feel to such an experience is entirely legitimate. I wouldn't begin to judge that kind of resistance. If you have ultimately no time, then the concept of cause and effect cannot exist, because cause and effect require time. Consequences require ime. We can't learn anything er, we can't regret anything, and so forth. The sense of being a separate self depends upon time for its xistence

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