Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton and today we're going to talk about

how to end your own suffering. Now, I know this might sound like a sort of esoteric topic or something

that maybe seems like an impossibility. But this is something that people have been talking about

for years. And in fact, this is actually something that I have been talking about for years. And in fact, this is actually

something that I have been on a journey to understand more deeply for a long time. Ever since I was a

child, I can actually remember myself as a little kid, going through distressful situations, going through situations

with my parents, with my family, in my environment, painful situations, where I often found

myself questioning why, not only why is this happening, but how can I make sure that this never happens again? And there was

something within me, this sort of naive innocence that set out on a journey to understand

what causes us suffering, what causes us pain, and how do we learn from that pain and suffering,

and how do we not necessarily avoid it.

In fact, I think that my journey and understanding suffering has evolved because I think like

many people, I started off on the journey to understand suffering by trying to avoid it.

And what I realized through that journey is that when we try and avoid suffering, it actually

epitomizes our suffering. It actually is the accentuation, the sort of brightening and

turning the volume dial up on our suffering. The more that we avoid it, the more that we try and get

away from it, the stronger that our suffering

seems to come on. And so today I want to talk about a practical means of ending your suffering,

wherever you are, and give you some very sort of practical tools. So first and foremost,

we need to understand what suffering actually is, right? Because it's a very

analogous sort of esoteric concept, right? Most people would think suffering equates to pain.

But what kind of pain? Because there's many different kinds, right? There's physical pain,

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