Arthur C. Brooks

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1,407 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Those two parts go together, they can be separated.

But the whole point is that those parts of pain have kept you alive.

Pain is your friend because it's a signal.

That's something you need to pay attention to.

Suffering isn't the same thing as pain.

Suffering equals your pain multiplied by your resistance to your pain.

And that's what you learn, which a lot of people tell me they learn because I've never taken psychedelics, when they take psychedelics.

And that's what I learned through my religion.

And that's what I learned working with the Tibetan Buddhists, which I've done over the past 13 years.

Well, except that the Christian faith worships a man who didn't resist his pain.

and so therefore was in bliss and union with God.

His pain was enormous.

His suffering was lower by the end because his resistance went away.

This is even worse than talking about gender differences.

Instant cancellation.

So most people don't need better technique at lowering pain.

they need to learn to lower the resistance to pain.

So even when pain is inevitably high, suffering isn't.

My mother-in-law, when she was dying, I was very close to my mother-in-law.

I was closer to her than I was to my own mother.

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