The Happiness Podcast 011 - Are You Suffering? Try This!
Aug 26, 2019
Listeners are invited to inspect a current pain, worry, or anxiety and find the desire hidden beneath it. The conversation explores how craving amplifies that desire and how identifying your sense of self with it deepens suffering. The talk guides you to notice these patterns as a path toward freedom.
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Identify The Desire Causing Your Worry
- Investigate any current worry by naming the desire underneath it.
- Anthony de Mello guides listeners to actively pick up the desire causing their suffering as the first step to freedom.
Suffering Reveals A Hidden Desire
- Suffering signals an underlying desire driving pain or anxiety.
- Anthony de Mello asks listeners to notice the specific desire beneath their immediate suffering to reveal its source.
Craving Intensifies Pain
- Not all desires are ordinary; they become cravings that intensify suffering.
- Anthony de Mello distinguishes a craving from a simple want to explain why pain persists and escalates.