Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If you've been listening to this

podcast for a while or if you're new to this podcast, today's going to be an

interesting episode and perhaps one that may seem a bit confusing

so you might want to listen to it more than once. But the key factor in this episode is

how do we be happy? How can I be happy as a human being and really have a beautiful life and the

key is get rid of the eye get rid of the we and we can have pretty amazing lives.

What the heck do I mean by that?

Well in today's episode we're going to talk about our egos

and how powerful they are, powerful in the sense that if we align with them, if we try to build

them up, we can greatly suffer from that sense of trying to find a sense of self, a sense of I'm great, I'm wonderful, everything's going well for me.

Or the opposite can be true.

I hate suffering.

What's wrong with me?

I need this to stop.

I hate what's going on in my life.

But in both those situations, the key factor is the I.

I this, I want this, I don't want that, I don't want that, I want this. I want people to appreciate me. I don't want to suffer.

It's all about the eye. When we focus on the, and we make that our main priority, suffering is going to pursue.

Because often it's very much external.

What I mean by that is we want to build up that eye, we want to feel good about ourselves, have

a really good self-esteem, but the mere fact that we're wanting to build up our sense

of eye, our egos, This will ultimately lead to suffering. We will suffer now, or sooner or later

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