Pain Is Inevitable - Suffering Is Optional: Peter Crone
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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"Suffering is wishing things were other than they are" - Buddha
Suffering is a part of life for the vast majority of us - but does that really need to be the case? Pain is inevitable, but psychological suffering is not. This is something I discussed with Peter Crone - aka The Mind Architect - and we talked about it stemming from a fundamental case of mistaken identity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along. Now, suffering is part of life, but does it really need to be? |
| 0:05.7 | Pain, yes, is inevitable, but psychological suffering, perhaps not. |
| 0:10.9 | Now, this is something I discussed with Peter Crone, aka the mind architect, |
| 0:14.6 | and we talked about how fundamentally it all stems from a case of mistaken identity. |
| 0:34.6 | Music fundamentally, it all stems from a case of mistaken identity. It was pinpointing that experience of a human being, which is the eye that we think we are |
| 0:40.8 | that is separate from everything else. You just said there in the eye that we think we are |
| 0:46.0 | separate from everything else. And the stories we form are all around this, this eye or the |
| 0:52.5 | me. Do you think, you eye or the me. Yes. |
| 1:01.9 | Do you think, you know, the suffering that most of us experience beyond, let's say, the pain that is inherent in life, is born of that, identifying with that eye and the feeling |
| 1:10.6 | of separation, the feeling of being separate. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, 100%. |
| 1:15.5 | Like, and you articulated it beautifully. |
| 1:19.2 | And I know from what you've discussed, you've done a lot of work in that realm, or like, |
| 1:23.4 | whether we call it non-dualism, or understanding the difference between sort of an identity |
| 1:29.1 | or a persona that we think ourselves to be versus the essence perhaps of who we are. So yeah, |
| 1:34.1 | so you articulated it perfectly. All the suffering, and I would distinguish suffering from pain, |
| 1:38.3 | as you did, pain is really physiological. It's unavoidable as a sentient organism. We're going to |
| 1:42.8 | stub our toe on the coffee table and spill hot drinks on our wrists and, you know, the things that we do and it hurts physically. |
| 1:50.0 | But what I'm really eradicating and getting rid of people is suffering, which does belong, I would say, exclusively to the idea of ourselves. |
| 1:59.0 | I don't solve problems. I dissolve them. |
| 2:02.9 | So that's to your point about leading people home. So my work is very much a dissolution process. |
| 2:07.8 | Like I would assert that the human part that we touched on a minute ago, the eye that we believe |
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