Episode Details

Do you want to solve 99% of your problems? Then stop numbing them and go and find what is causing them.

We are very good at numbing. We put a plaster over the top and carry on. If you have a thorn in your finger, a plaster is no help. You have to take the thorn out. Meditation is not there to remove today's suffering. It is there so you can meet tomorrow's. We think we have five hundred problems. Really we have a hundred bigger ones underneath, and most of them share a root. It is like walking down the road complaining about the stone in your shoe.

One thing to try: Grab paper. List what is bothering you, then draw a line from each to what is underneath it. Watch the list shrink.

In this episode

• (1:36) We want to numb, and numbing is the problem
• (3:50) Meditation is for the suffering that comes later
• (5:46) Accepting this moment is not pretending it is fine
• (6:21) Brushing it under the carpet solves nothing
• (7:38) The thorn in the finger and the useless plaster
• (10:08) Five hundred small problems, a hundred real ones
• (11:21) Take a piece of paper and find the root
• (13:10) The stone in your shoe

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