Suffering Informs The Meaning Of Your Life

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]One of the greatest ways for you to miss the meaning of your life is for you to try [music] to avoid your suffering. The Buddhists have this math.

[00:00:07]They say that suffering [music] is pain multiplied by resistance. The most important teacher of the meaning of your life [music] is your suffering.

[00:00:14]Give me an example. So, in large groups of people, you find that when you ask them to talk about the meaning of their life, they always talk about their terrible times. They always talk about their suffering. Always. When my mom died, when I almost lost my business, when I flunked out of college, when I got really sick, when I was truly scared, and I made my way through it.

[00:00:34]When I understood when I went through that suffering [music] was my teacher about who I am as a person and the meaning of my life. That's the way it is. And if we have a culture that tries to get rid of pain, you have a culture that gets rid of meaning. It's not only get [music] rid of pain, it's resist it. Right.