Suffering and Awakening.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions from a live audience, including one about how

suffering can lead to awakening.

He says we need challenges in order to evolve.

The great paradox is we are liberated when we surrender to life's difficulties.

Eckhart says eventually we can become grateful for our suffering because it pushes us to

become more of who we are.

I, Eckhart, thank you for taking my question.

Thank you.

So it has to do a little bit with suffering and awakening and I'm just going to read it.

I have lived an incredibly traumatic and violent life for most of my life.

And I'm still unsure how to use the suffering and pain and trauma to help bring myself

into awareness and awakening.

So can you elaborate more on how that's done?

And there is a second part to the question that relates to it.

You've said that the purpose of the life of life is to sort of go into the to become

awakened.

So I'm kind of taking it like if this why aren't we just born awakened?

But why is there the need for this suffering to bring us there?

Do we choose the suffering or does it just happen?

Well, thank you.

A big question.

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