CLAIM YOUR SEAT: Buddha's Teachings on Doubt

About this episode

This episode explores how healthy doubt can help us uncover truths about happiness and suffering, drawing on Buddha's teachings.

Our common experience of doubt – in ourselves, and in our ability to make good decisions for ourselves, especially - is actually the very last thing the Buddha himself struggled with just before he became enlightened. In fact, his own awakening was his profound message to us: that we all have the innate capability to discover for ourselves what will lead us towards more happiness, and what will lead us towards more suffering. This talk explores how we can use our healthy doubt as the antidote to our unhealthy doubt in order to reveal what is true.

Topics covered

• doubt
• Buddha's teachings
• enlightenment
• happiness
• suffering

Keywords

• Buddhism
• spirituality
• self-discovery

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