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So when I say human suffering a lot of people think like oh the people suffering That are in other countries or people that are going through terrible trauma and all of that stuff That's not what I mean when I say suffering pain Like I'll give you a quick example just to make it more sense give you a little more context, right pain would be Somebody cheating on you suffering is waking up and thinking about that every single day the pain happened That is inevitable. You're gonna have pain in your life. The suffering though is optional There's some people that are still suffering 10 years later from somebody that cheated on them 10 years ago and thinking that they're not good enough 10 years down the road and so when I say suffering That's what I mean and we're gonna talk about the path of a human and the path of growth is a human and First we start off being a child, right? And if you think about about children like I have a lot of children that are in my family I grew up and you know when I go to Christmas we have 40 45 of us that are back home But when I was a kid there were always children around always, you know, we were raised Roman Catholic so we reproduced like bunnies and so Those you guys that are Irish Catholic, I'll know that Irish Catholic not Roman Catholic. So When you think about this though, you think about being a child and if you ever see a child children are just free They're just they're true as selves aren't they like they can get naked in the middle of a target And they don't give a damn what you think about them. They don't care. They're just free They're just they're true as selves and that's the way we come into this world and then at some point in time we are Taught how to fit in with society taught how to fit in with our family. We are Domesticated, I guess you could say right and through the domestication process We lose our true selves and so you might be too loud while you're at the grocery store and your parents yell at you You know the other day I was at I was at a restaurant with Dean and his family and his little two-year-old I think he had just turned three just decides in the middle of a restaurant nice restaurant just a Scream like out of nowhere. It didn't it came from nowhere. And we're like what the hell just happened, right? That's just a child. That's what they do and they don't care what anybody thinks in their entire restaurant And so we're all like she got to be quiet So we're telling him not to be as true as self. It's hard. It's hard to do this to Domesticate I'm gonna keep using that word intentionally domesticate a child into fitting in with society And also be like how do I not how do I not squash their freedom of expression? Right and so then as a child you're running around in public and you're in the grocery store and you're you have all of this Energy and you're going crazy and you be you're yelled at so that you stop running Right and the average child because I get it parents have to reprimand their children to keep them alive a lot of times a lot of times they get reprimanded just because The parent doesn't want to have to deal with it, but the average child statistically is reprimanded eight times more than they're praised Let me say this again for people that are parents and people that want to be parents or people that are grandparents all The average child is reprimanded eight times more than they're praised Which means that they are told that they're true as self if we're really taking a step back They're true as self is not acceptable in this moment, right? They think that they are not enough Eight times more than they think that they're enough Why is it that everybody has some sort of paradigm of I'm not enough? Well, that's why is because we have to be quote-unquote Domesticated and fit in with society. It's societal pressures to make sure that the children fit in and that they act a certain way And they act certain way when they go to school and what happens over time Is it we as humans now as adults listening to this? We have abandoned our truest self at some point in time We learn that our true self does not fit in with society And so the best way to talk about this and give you this this this idea of why we suffer and how to get free from suffering Is from a Danish theologian and philosopher his name is Soren I'm gonna try to pronounce this but I'm gonna screw it up. Kirkgaard. I think that's how you say it he was around in like the 1800s and The best way of thinking of this is this is what tends to happen with people and this happens I see this happen when people all the time When they go on a personal development journey is they go on a personal development journey and as they start to work on Themself, they realize that they're parts of themselves That they don't like that they want to get rid of and they start to think that they're worse than normal And they want to fix these things just so they can feel normal And so the biggest problem from the top if you can imagine like we're gonna work from the top of a page down Right, the biggest problem is that usually it starts at some point in time with I wish to be Other than I am to have a different self And this is the first thing he discovered is that almost everybody at some point in time in their life thinks himself I want to be different than I am Right, we've all been there. I've been there many times. Have you ever been there before? I want to be different than I am better richer whatever it might be right I Want to be different than I am I want to be a different self And so right under that it flows into so I try to make myself into someone different What we do is we tend to abandon our truest selves and try to make ourselves into somebody different Into somebody that we are not so that we can fit in so that we can succeed so that we can Be perceived that we want the way that we want to be perceived whatever it is The first piece of it is I want to be different than I am to have a different self So I try to make myself Into someone different and as you try to make yourself into someone different. There's two ways that it could branch off either number one I fail and I hate myself in some sort of way because I failed and I am still the the person that I was but now I Still want to change so that's one side is that I fail and the other side is that I succeed in changing myself And I abandoned my truest nature So let's dive into each of those right I fail at becoming somebody else and I despise myself for it Oh my god. I I want to change. I want to be different. I don't have the motivation I don't have this this this this and it comes from I want to be somebody different And so I'm trying to change myself into someone different and I despise myself for failing and I fail and I despise myself For not being who I want to be which is somebody different right Following me now on the other side of that is that I succeed at becoming quote unquote and quote unquote becoming somebody different I abandoned my true self and I succeed at becoming somebody different And I become somebody completely different than who I am at my truest self I lose myself my true self in the character that I have to play, you know and it always brings me back to the spiritual awakening that Eckhart Tolle talks about in the power of now where he was depressed and he was thinking of committing suicide and he had this this Awakening when he said to himself I can no longer live with myself, right? So let's look at that phrase. I Can no longer live with myself. So there there is the I that is the true self that we're speaking about and Can no longer live with myself Which is the self that we have built ourself into when we become somebody who is not our true self And so he realized he didn't need to commit suicide and this isn't a whole thing about suicide or diving into it There's a lot of people that go through mental struggles and all this stuff. I'm just talking specifically about Eckhart Tolle The I can no longer live with myself. He realized he didn't need to kill himself He needed to change the self and go back to his truest nature, which was the I which is the true self, right? So either way whether I fail at becoming who I want to be and in changing myself From my truest self either that is is one side or the other side of the coin Is that I actually succeed and I lose my true self either way? I'm losing my true self and what happens is I get so far away from who I truly am I don't know who I am anymore and I don't know about you I found myself here a few times in my life where I don't know who the fuck I am and I'm like I I Don't know I'm lost and it's like a dark night of the soul of like who am I? What am I? What have I built myself into? You know, there's a lot of very successful people That becomes successful and then either become depressed or they commit suicide or whatever it is might be and a lot of times It's because they have to abandon Let me say that again They think that they have to abandon their true self in order to get to the mountaintop the top of the mountain and they Get to the top of the mountain and they realize that it didn't do anything for them They don't feel any different right I remember thinking to myself like oh when I am super successful when I become a millionaire Then everything will be fine and then I got to the quote-unquote top of the mountaintop and I was like I don't feel any different like money did not solve anything the only problems that money solves are money problems Nothing else everything else is exactly the same and so either way we lose ourselves We have to lose our true selves in order to Some point time get in here and start to figure out who we are who are not all that stuff I do think that is the natural flow and Of a human soul is to have to go through all of this stuff because you have to lose yourself to find yourself Just my belief I've heard that from a lot of other people as well But you can you know take that if you like but maybe you know people think to themselves Well, maybe I have to make myself so tough because the world is so tough and if I if I'm not tough the world will beat me up and We have to become this real tough like a lot of men feel like we have to I felt this way Had to become really tough and really hardcore and you know I would have to be brash with my words and cut you first so that you didn't cut me and I'd put up a wall and not Let you in but then really deep down inside All of us are just soft emotional beings that just want love. That's it. And so then what happens is we realize whether it is the the path of Failing of becoming who we want to be but we still hate ourselves and we want to change ourselves or succeeding at changing ourselves Either way both of them flow into I Lose my true self. I'm so deep into the whole. I'm so deep into wanting to change myself I'm so deep into wanting the things to be different that I actually lose myself in the process my truest self and as I said earlier most people do not know who they are and It can be scary and it's not a fun road to go down, but I think that when you go through that dark night of the soul You start to realize what you do want what you don't want who you are who you're not You start to kind of piece it all together and go back to who you were so we think you know and Going back to being successful and getting to the top of the mountaintop and realizing nothing changes a lot of people think that By buying the house it'll make us feel better But nothing changes by buying the car and it'll make us feel better, but nothing changed by buying the clothes No, you know if we're gonna be so much better And then nothing changes having a million dollars in the bank account and then nothing changes you still feel exactly the same and Then you start to realize as you lose yourself completely, which is the path that you're going to go through if you're trying to Lose if you're trying to get rid of yourself and you fail or you do abandon yourself And you do succeed quote-unquote succeeded that either way you lose your true self. And so you find yourself in a place where Kind of like despair. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go from here and Will you realize at this point? Hopefully if you have this awakening that nothing you could ever do Or nothing you could ever achieve can make you more or less than what you currently are Like if you today, let's say you're not a millionaire, right? Let's say you have 12 dollars in your bank account Let's say in five years you have a million dollars in your bank account in five years When you have that million dollars in your bank account Are you more of a human in five years with that million dollars in bank account than you are right now? No You're still the same. You're still a human. It doesn't make you better It does having a million dollars in bank out doesn't make you a better person and not having a million dollars in bank out Doesn't make you a worse person Are you More of a human when you buy that Lamborghini and less of a human We don't have it. Are you more of a human when you have that mansion and less of a human when you don't have it? No There's nothing that you could do or achieve or say that would add or subtract to who you currently are and That is what we all need to realize. There's a meditation that I do Every once a while by this guy named Muji. It's on YouTube and you know I'll put him on and do some guided meditations with him every once while in the morning and one things that he says during the meditation is he says you have no pockets and Obviously like I'm wearing pants right now and you might be like well, I do have pockets I do have four pockets on my pants. What he means is your physical human body Has no pockets So he says you have no pockets. You have no storehouse There's nothing that you could do or say to make you more than what you currently are Like you will you and I Came into this world naked. We will die naked We will literally leave with what we came in with which means that nothing that you could ever do or achieve or Have quote-unquote have Because you don't really have anything, you know as soon as you're gone Everything is going to be put back into the system. The money is gonna be put back in the system The house can be put against it back in the system the land that you own is gonna be put back in the system Which means nothing you could ever make or do would make you more than what you truly are and so to escape the suffering To escape the anxiety to escape the stress what we need to do is that we need to realize That we have to accept our true selves. We have to accept ourselves as we are We need to try to take the path back to who we were as a child before we were domesticated and we have to look at ourselves and say Yeah, I do have a scar on my face, but I still love myself. Yeah, I do have a big old butt But I still love myself You know and you look and you start from a place of love versus a place of hate and wanting to change change change Because you hate yourself and you start, you know looking at yourself and saying, you know what maybe I am 15 Pounds overweight, but instead of hating myself to lose weight What if I love my body for all that it's done all of the shit that I've put it through the alcohol that I've given it the Drugs I've given it the bad food that I've given it and still continues to run instead of from a place of hate All right, like I hate my body It's like I want to accept and I want to love my body and I want to take care of it because of all of the Stuff that it's done for me and The goal is to try to be the self which is truly 100% integrated with who we truly are Going back to the phrase I can no longer live with myself The self is the character that we have built ourselves into What we're trying to do and what will actually cause The most happiness and the most joy is to go back to the truest form of you The I that was here when you were born before we domesticated before we were reprimanded eight times more than we were praised before We were told what we should should not do in every single aspect before we had our heart broken The first time before we started seeing advertisements that told us that we weren't good enough until we buy those products Before we were bullied in school before our parents told us what we should and shouldn't do all of those things and we go back to I the truest nature of ourself and realize that in this moment right now There's nothing that you could do say achieve that would make you more than you currently are right now ever You've always been at this level. You will always be at this level. There's nothing that you can do Then you could say there's nothing she can achieve So the goal to remove suffering and to bring the most happiness into your life Is to stop trying to change yourself from a place of wanting to hate yourself But go back to the truest version of who you are rediscover who you are And try to integrate the truest version of yourself into life that you currently have now most people at that point I'll be like well Rob But if I love myself if I love my life if I love all these things all lose all of my motivation I'll never become a million I'll never become successful Oh, no no no grasshopper what I've come to find is that when you love yourself more It makes taking the right action so much easier because you don't have to push yourself You feel in flow you feel aligned you feel like what you're doing is the right thing And it makes it very easy to start making decisions and start taking actions that are in alignment with your truest self Which allows you to achieve more and makes it so much easier to achieve and become whatever is that you want to become as Your truest version of yourself versus trying to build yourself into someone that you're not so That's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode Please share this on your Instagram stories and tag me in it Rob dial jr. 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