How to cope with the unavoidable suffering of Being Alive

About this episode

The episode explores the concepts of avoidable and unavoidable pain to find meaning in life.

A thesis on parsing avoidable and unavoidable pain in service of finding meaning in the present moment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Blindboyboatclub

Topics covered

• suffering
• meaning
• pain
• existence
• philosophy
• present moment

Keywords

• suffering
• pain
• meaning
• existence
• philosophy
• present moment

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