Dr. James Doty
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jul
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That being said, what we do know is there are certain practices and rules that
And if you are going to get out of something or if you are going to change things, then the best way to do that, which has the highest likelihood of success, is to go through some of the things that we're talking about here.
And one of those is that, as an example, there is a tendency for us to want to achieve, right?
And if you're an athlete, you have a goal you set there.
Well, goals are fine, but if you focus only on the goal and have no concern about any of the other things that are going on.
The process.
Yeah.
Then you reach the goal and there's nothing there.
Yeah.
Yet what we do know, the greatest cause of suffering is what?
It's attachment and craving.
Desires.
Yeah, yeah.
And the thing is, when that is your absolute focus, and we can't all get these things, you're going to be highly disappointed, and you've ignored all the people in your life as you focus solely on that.
And unfortunately, many people learn that lesson far along after they've destroyed their families, they've been through multiple marriages, their kids don't like them, right?
Yeah, because again, as I was saying even about myself, I thought, well, if I just do this, my shame and insecurity will go away.
I'll be loved by everybody and my life will be perfect.
Yet at every one of those peaks, all I had was disappointment.
And while everyone told me life was great, I did not feel that inside because I had not understood that I was the only one who had the key to the self-created prison.
And until you realize that, you're on a very difficult path.
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