
Science + Mysticism w/ Duncan Trussell
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The Root of Suffering
The root of suffering is the identification with an eye, he says. How would you not identify with thi self? Would you not think you were something? I mean, obviously you're something, right? You have all these thoughts appearing in your mind. But it's like, well, all right. Surely i'm a thing. And so we end up playing this game that is called somsara,. based on a kind of ignorance of the realityo formlessness in our own lives. That's why buddhism doesn't just suffer; there is more than one way to get rid of suffering.
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