Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a lot of work.
What is that?
Well, the Eightfold Path is the way that the Buddhists teach you to live such that you can live in non-resistance, that you can live to non-resistance to ego, to non-resistance to suffering, sorry, to pain, non-resistance to the things in life such that you can be integrated into a life that has inevitable pain but not inevitable suffering.
This is the balance.
If I were a Buddhist, which I'm not,
I might say you should always have complete non-resistance and disregard pain.
I'm not a Buddhist.
I'm a capitalist, not an American, right?
I think there are lots of cases when you should actually try to lower the pain.
I mean, I take a Tylenol.
If I wake up, my back hurts a lot.
I got, like, back issues.
And I take Advil because I want an anti-inflammatory.
By the way, I also am very familiar with the clinical research on back pain, which shows that you should alleviate the pain, manage it a little bit, but you shouldn't take a narcotic analgesic because that's eliminating the pain.
I should manage the pain and then have non-resistance to the fundamental presence of it in my life, which will actually co-occur with my life every day for the rest of my life.
It's okay.
It's okay to say, I'm a guy with back pain.
I can manage it a little bit because Advil's pretty good, but I can also live a really, really good life.
And I can focus on the things that I like.
And so what I'm doing is I'm combining the lowering of pain with non-resistance in a way where the suffering is where I need it to be in my life.
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