Seeing Beyond My Complaints and Problems

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.9 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Daily life throws a lot at us. When our state of life is low, it can be easy to get wrapped up in complaint. Buddhism teaches that caring for others helps us see beyond our problems, having a more expansive view of our lives with deeper appreciation and happiness.

Today’s guest, Daeseon Kim, of Queens, N.Y., shares how tying his dreams to a deeper purpose helped him move to the U.S. and advance in his career as a physical therapist.

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0:00.0	From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability.
0:07.0	The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:20.2	The moment you wake up, are you already thinking about the 10 things that you have to do?
0:27.0	Or maybe you didn't sleep well because of an argument you had with your partner.
0:32.1	As the day goes by, you're wrapped up in all the little and big problems you've got.
0:38.3	Why can't they just see it my way?
0:40.3	This meeting totally could have been an email.
0:44.3	They really need to get over themselves.
0:47.3	Is it seriously another day of rain?
0:50.3	We all have complaints, we all have problems, but when we're so absorbed in our own, we don't see others.
0:58.8	Buddhism teaches that caring about people actually makes us happier and experience deeper meaning in our lives.
1:07.0	Today's guest is Dason Kim of Queens, New York.
1:19.6	He says that chanting Namyo Hōdenge Kiao and the courage of a good friend helped him see how his complaint and tendency toward arrogance was causing him to suffer.
1:29.5	All right, welcome, Desa.
1:32.9	Thank you so much for joining the bootability podcast.
1:37.0	And of course, we know each other because we're both in New York City.
1:42.9	So for folks listening that don't know who you are, you can just introduce yourself. So you can share just like a little bit about who you are and maybe like kind of how you grew up,
1:47.0	how you were introduced to Buddhism.
1:49.0	Yeah, sure.
1:51.0	Yeah, thank you so much for this opportunity.
1:53.0	Yeah, I'm really excited to share my, a little bit about my story.
1:58.0	So I was born and raised in Korea and I moved to this country like four years ago.
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