Pleasure and Pain: Talk
In this concluding talk, we explore the two worldly winds at the heart of nearly every human experience: pleasure and pain. Drawing from the Lokavipatti Sutta (AN 8.6), we look at what the Buddha meant when he said the world “revolves around” these conditions, and how our constant chasing of pleasure and avoidance of pain keeps the cycle of saṃsāra spinning.
Rather than rejecting these experiences, the Buddha invites us to step off the hedonic treadmill by transforming our relationship to them—recognizing their impermanence, feeling them fully, and not being pushed and pulled by every…
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