Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe #15 [rebroadcast]

How to Train a Happy Mind

Do each of us believe deep down that we’re just a little bit more important than everyone else? My happiness, my goals, my relationships? The root cause of our suffering from the Buddhist perspective is this belief, a delusion called ignorance, seen as the true source of all our suffering: from disappointment in the face of life’s setbacks, to the dissatisfaction we can feel even when we get exactly what we want. It’s a retelling of the Buddha’s very first teaching, The Four Noble Truths: on suffering, its causes and antidotes, with a modern twist.
Episode 15. Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe?

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Chapters

1. Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe? (00:00:00)

2. The Buddha’s first teaching (00:02:27)

3. Why do we contemplate suffering? (00:04:22)

4. The Suffering of Suffering (00:04:50)

5. The Suffering of Change (00:05:45)

6. All Pervasive Suffering (00:10:40)

7. The Causes of Suffering (00:11:58)

8. I am just a little more important! (00:12:59)

9. What if I feel less important? (00:14:38)

10. The antidote to dissatisfaction (00:15:47)

11. The root cause of our problems is our delusions (00:17:03)

12. The root delusions (00:21:19)

13. Attachment (00:22:54)

14. Anger (00:29:35)

15. Ignorance (00:34:05)