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

About this episode

The episode explores the belief in personal importance and its connection to suffering from a Buddhist perspective.

Do we each secretly believe we matter just a little more than everyone else? That my happiness, my ambitions, my relationships carry greater weight? From a Buddhist perspective, this deeply ingrained belief is the root of our suffering: a delusion known as ignorance, considered the true source of everything from heartbreak and disappointment to the quiet dissatisfaction that lingers even when we get exactly what we want. This is a modern retelling of the Buddha’s first teaching, T...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Snibbe

Topics covered

• self-importance
• Buddhism
• suffering
• ignorance
• happiness
• relationships

Keywords

• self-importance
• Buddhism
• suffering
• ignorance
• happiness
• relationships
• delusion
• disappointment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Buddha’s first teaching

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