Hi, I'm Johnny Jones. To create greater happiness in life, we have to address the suffering state of mind. So today we're looking at what suffering is. So we know what we're dealing with. So what is suffering? Suffering is simply any negative state of mind, which creates some happiness from within.

For instance, fear, anger and patience, and the list goes on. And that does not matter whether it's big or small, because if we only focus on the big ones, we're going to surely forget to address the smaller ones. And the smaller ones may be magnified by an outer experience later on, such as our fear of public speaking. We may not really feel it now. In our daily lives until we put in front of In the audience, so suffering with a big ozmo is equally important to be addressed. And that's really important also to be aware that suffering is a state of mind rather than inaction.

So you may not appear angry. But if you're experiencing anger even slightly, then you're angry. It's simple as that. It's important to develop this awareness because we can only address what we are aware of. Now that we know what suffering is, let us look at the cause of suffering. This is the alto course and this course it has using sample one since l. work colleagues did something to make us angry.

What is the L two course? This work colleague? And how do we address the Delta course? Well, they vary with the various ways you can address it by arguing with them. You can address it by avoiding or suppressing the anger. I'm not here to talk about the right way of addressing the outer cause, because that's completely up to you.

I'm here to say, if we do not address that, and of course, no matter if you win the argument with an oil, if you successfully avoid this person for the rest of your life, you will still experience suffering state of the mind, again and again when a similar situation arises. So that's why it's important to know what the cause of suffering is, so we can address it. So what's the course? Well, personally, when I started out on my journey of addressing the suffering state of the mind, I did not know that and of course, and as a result, I created very little self transformation. In the beginning, I just couldn't, no one told me what the end of course was. I actually tried to look for And books in the internet.

But everyone was talking about how to manage it at the surface level. After a while, I realized it's really important to know how suffering begins at the deepest level. So we can address it there. And if we because by doing that, we don't have to experience it again. So I went on my own journey of researching how suffering was created. And to do my research, I would wake up every day at 5am, prepare myself and meditation and yoga to stabilize my mind because I would put myself in suffering situations day by day, so I can experience what this experience of suffering really is in the mind.

For instance, if I wanted to study the fear of heights, I would go ride a roller coaster I would climb a tree I would. I thought stump plane, I went bungee jumping and those shorts Just to bring the fear out. If I want to, to study anger, then I would surround myself with people I didn't like to study and patients, I went on really long, horrible meditation retreats that just seem to last forever. And that really bought them patients out of me. And I simply up shift and not shift and was quiet. It was quite a stimulating and horrible experience.

But, of course, meditation really helped to stabilize my mind through the experience so I can simply observe what was happening. And what I discovered was that old forms of sufferings with its fear, angle and patience. When you're in a state of suffering, you're in a state of rejection towards yourself towards a situation, what personnel side I call this state of suffering a state of rejection of yourself. Because to the deeper mind itself is everything that exists in the world. And what creates this state of rejection that comes from the negative ideas we create in our minds and what a negative ideas they do ideas, which promote the rejection of the self, and they can be easily understood as self declarations, which begin with it's not okay. For instance, it is not okay to fail.

It is not okay to be embarrassed. It's not okay to be rude. It is not okay to waste time and oh shorts. And from this negative idea, come suffering. So from the negative idea comes suffering from all levels of the mind. Because it's not okay.

For instance to fail. Then there will be a state of rejection to what's the sound When it fails, there will be the negative physical sensations to do with failing, there will be negative thoughts about failing because it's not okay to fail, there'll be fears of failing because it's not okay to fail. They'll be negative judgment towards each other for failure. So from one negative idea, so that one negative idea is experienced, and all levels of the self and that comprises the suffering experience. I know it's really hard to understand this at the intellectual level and I've greatly simplified it. You can look at him in more detail my website creation within creation calm.

But what you can do with this information, I guess, is From now on, when you go through a suffering experience, try to describe it through negative ideas. For instance, a work colleague says something angry to you. Ask yourself What? Perhaps a workaholic has something to make you angry, then you can ask yourself what negative ideas are driving my suffering experience. And often you will find many negative ideas. But most often, you will not know when negative ideas I applied.

Because when we are suffering, we're in a state of confusion as well. The mind will be stimulated with those sorts of thoughts, thoughts about how to punish the other person, how to escape the situation, how to sew the outer cause, rather than the intercourse. This is why it's important to develop stillness because this will help us to be in a state of observation rather than reaction. So we can know the negative ideas within our suffering experiences. So in summary, to We've learned what suffering is. We've learned that suffering is any negative state of mind, which creates unhappiness from within, whether it's big or small, equally important to be addressed.

With understood the outer cause of suffering. The outer cause can be understood as the experiences we go through, which brings out the inner cause of suffering into light and negative ideas. In the next video, we'll be talking about how to transform our sufferings, so that we do not have to experience them again. So I'll see you in the next video.