Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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You have to have the inner strength, the inner...
equanimity to be able to say, okay, non-resistance, non-resistance.
And that's when you said, I need to embrace this thing because you were in a state of profound non-resistance.
You wanted to understand exactly what it meant because you could, because your pain was high and you wanted to hold it and understand it because your resistance was low and so therefore your suffering was not unbearable in this moment.
Well, that can become masochism when you actually want the pain.
Dude, try it again.
You got to come back.
Buddhism is the only religion with no martyrs.
Yeah.
But part of it is also is finding your way to an adult understanding of a very, very complex phenomenon like any faith as opposed to the third grade version that was ingrained into us that doesn't make sense.
This is one of the reasons that people in their 40s and 50s are more likely to be more religious than people in their 20s and 30s because you get to the point where your age or 10 years old or my age, you're like, yeah, well, nothing makes sense.
Right.
Why not get something from it?
Newsflash.
When I get invited to the after party, it's all nonsense.
I mean, this book of Job in the Bible is all about, like, I did everything right, and you made me suffer.
Why?
And God's answer to Job in the whirlwind, he gets to talk.
Like, Job puts God in the dock in chapter 38.
Job is like, you killed all my livestock, and I was your boy.
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