On the pain. I started, I like to start with meaning, with concept, with etymology, with everything that is about it so that we can start from what we have. I brought you a catch not only what we have today, but also what has been thought about the pain over time. About physical pain and about moral pain, which are two pains that we don't know which of the two is worse. Moral pain, which then impacts spiritual pain, psychological pain, emotional, mental pain, impacts everything there. Or physical pain, the disease, the imbalance of health. They are two
difficult pains and sometimes they arise together, which is even worse. How do we face this, since once there is no possibility that we get out of here, without facing it? This is a fact. The world is dual. While there is light, there will be dark, high, low, there will be hot, cold, always duality will be with us. So it is impossible that we do not go through the pain, that it will be with us at some point. How can we face this in the best possible way? Are there mental forms, ideas, postures that can put
us better in the face of pain in life? So I'm going to take a historical walk with you. To get to know a little about what is thought and what has been thought about it. I started with a very current concept, which is from the International Association for the Study of Pain, the concept of 2020. A concept very much aimed at medical language, biological language. They say the following. Pain is a physical and emotional experience, unpleasant, associated or similar to those associated with a disease, and which is not a physical experience. It is not a
physical experience, it is not a mental experience. Pain is a physical experience, unpleasant, associated or similar to those associated with a disease, and which is not a physical experience, unpleasant, associated or similar to those associated with a disease, and which is not a physical experience, unpleasant, associated or similar to those associated with a disease, a real or potential tissue damage. Complex language for us, right? They say a tissue damage means a wound, a break in the physical plane, something that is equivalent to that in the emotional plane, and this is called pain. Pain in the
physical plane is a break in a tissue. In the emotional plane, something equivalent to that in the emotional plane. That's what they mean. It's a modern concept, 2020 date, this is the concept that is used in relation to what comes to be pain. I brought a concept, a little more philosophical, that I think is more understandable for us. Seen from the philosophical angle of the pain, a feeling of anguish and suffering before daily mãe ntimo, an internal or external stimulus, aggressive or perceived as such, may even not be aggressive, but you think it is. And
there's the pain, for how many times do we suffer outside our lives by doing things we thought would be painful, which we never used to know how to do, we did not even experience it. And have never even experienced it to be able to find out. They don't even experience the pain that its known. They don't even experience it to be part of the fattening image. They don't even experience the pain that its known. How many times we suffer, for things that we thought were painful, we don't even know how toarm it, and then we
only experience it. And in fact they were. Do you realize that we suffer for life because of ghosts? One day you live that experience, and you think, it didn't hurt so much. And it was years of our lives fearing that thing. Maybe it's like that even with death itself. Maybe it was going to be like that. We fear so much, so much, so much. Maybe we get there and say, it wasn't for that much. It wasn't for all that. It was much simpler than I imagined. So, what is taken as aggressive, or what is actually
aggressive, that threatens our physical and psychological balance. This is the pain. Concepting so that we start from a common concept. Within Greek mythology, the theogony of Exile, the time of Exile, Homer, the Archaic Greek time. Exile has a book called Theogony, where he numbered the names of the gods. The first gods. The goddesses that appeared in the Greek pantheon. And then he will talk about a goddess, which is Ares. This goddess was not even a little Benquist. She is the goddess of darkness, she is the goddess of all evils, as you can imagine. Of hatred,
of all dissensions, of all problems. And she has a lot of children, each more monstrous than the other. And one of these children is exactly the Augea. Which are the pains that make you cry. It's interesting, right? Because it's a very broad concept. Both physical and moral. And the emotional ones make you cry. Sometimes it's very difficult. Sometimes I stop to think, what must be the greatest pain of the human being? Then I think about one, I think, no, that other is stronger. That other, what will it be? The greatest pain of the human being.
We go through a series of circumstances in our life, quite painful, considering our limits. Sometimes we find out that humanity has gone through terrible situations. We are still in a cycle that is not easy. We are still in a cycle that we can call the pandemic. Where there were people who lost more than one family member for something like that. How terrible, right? How terrible. I think this must be one of the worst pains we can live. The loss of a loved one. How humanity goes through situations throughout history. How we have already subjected each
other. Because many of our pains are caused by humanity itself. Many of them. How we have already subjected each other to pain. And this is the peak, then, would be this lady of pain. The goddess of pain. It may seem strange to you, but there is a goddess for pain? Well, if there is a goddess for pain, it means that for Greek mythology, pain was necessary. Man needed them for something. You have already achieved, philosophers have been putting themselves in imaginations, proposals of imagination. You will not imagine a whole life without any pain. Will you?
Would that be good? Would we grow? Or would we all stand still in place, because there is nothing bothering me? When there is absolutely nothing bothering me, I feel like walking, to go ahead, to overcome. Overcome what? Everything is so comfortable. How would our life be without any pain? It seems that what is said in mythology is that the goddess is considered a goddess, that is, she is doing something necessary. That is, pain has a need within human life. It's good to think about it. At my age, if people ask me what were the most
important moments of my life, the ones that made me grow the most, I will probably remember painful moments. Or is not it so? Have you also had this experience? Moments that I grew the most. I will remember painful moments. There is a certain tendency in the human being, when situations are pleasant, he does not reflect. Have you seen that? He enters into a kind of euphoria, commemorates, does not reflect. When you suffer, you reflect. Then you stop, think, see what it was, where did it come from, why did it happen. When we suffer, we actually
reflect. And we need to reflect. So there are a series of things that we can think about, to get closer to the subject. The Epicuristic and Stoic schools, which are two moral schools in Rome, both thought that we would have to have serenity to face moral pain. Ideally, we could have serenity to face all the pain. But at least the morals, that is, sadness, anguish, loss, at least moral pain, we should have serenity to face them. There should be something that for us was more valuable than what life threatens to take away from us. We
should have confidence in life, we should have a whole psychological scheme that would make us be able to overcome pain. There is something that I always do when I enter into a painful situation. A habit, that I leave as an advice, an observation for you, who knows, it is useful. Every time I enter into a painful, difficult, complex situation, I always think that I only get out bigger than I entered. That I get out on the other side, at least a millimeter bigger than I entered. Otherwise it's not worth it. What is it? Masochism? What
kind of life is this where I suffer without any purpose? That I get out on the other side a little bit bigger than I entered. Then it starts to make sense. But you realize that to go through this, you need to have a very specific posture in front of pain. And really want to make it a ladder, so that you can climb up, and reach another level of consciousness. Just as a curiosity, the Epicurists, they had what they called tetrapharmacology, that is, four medicines that they considered, Epicuro, who was the great founder of the school,
considered that he was able to apply any pain. Then it's just another curiosity, because honestly, tetrapharmacology, at least for me, none of the four medicines works for absolutely nothing. It's totally innocuous. But Epicuro believed that with these four medicines, he could relieve the pain of anyone. Which was, first of all, there is nothing to fear about the gods. He said that one of the pains is to fear that the gods, who were polytheists, or God, for those who are monotheists, punish me for something. He said, look, if there are gods, they are not even there
for you. So, you can be relieved of this, because they will not do anything to you, neither good nor evil. So, you are already relieved. Second, we fear some kind of pain, we fear some kind of suffering, and suffering comes through sensations. Suffering is sensory, it comes through sensations. When you die, the sensations die. So, how are you going to suffer in death? So, you will not have any sensation, it will not hurt, there is no way. So, calm down in relation to death, it should not hurt. You don't feel anything anymore. I don't feel
anything at all with this explanation, but anyway. The third, he came saying the following, happiness is possible. That is, it is no use to be distressed, thinking that life is a valley of pain. Happiness is possible and consists of the health of the body and the serenity of the spirit. Because you don't run after very big joys, don't want too much pleasure, want a simple, simple life, with little pleasures, and then, that way, you will not have any pain. And then, you will be out of life. He said that man must live for pleasure, but
not for so much pleasure, because this will upset your spirit. So, happiness is possible if you have small ambitions. If you want small things, happiness is possible. And finally, he said, we can escape pain, because the evils do not last or are assimilated. If you suffer little, it will pass. If you suffer a lot, you will get used to it. And he really thought that the person would be consoled in front of him. But, anyway, it was something that was very successful for a while, and he really believed in relieving human pain with these four
arguments. It didn't work very well, let's say, if they passed. So, in India, they also have a concept about pain. Very interesting. In the Indian traditions, there, for millennia, they say that there are basically three pains, or three forms of dukkha. These are the three that are here. The first one, which is the Dibaltika, is the pain caused by beings or external things. We have to learn to react with justice and balance. What does that mean? Someone will pass by you who will be unfair, who will treat you badly, just as a person who is
fair will pass by you and will treat you well. The world is dual. A person will pass by you who will treat you in a way that will hurt you, a person will pass by you who will suddenly offend you. You have to learn, in relation to these aggressions that arise in the day to day, because of the coexistence we have with human beings, you have to learn to be fair without being so much. Well, something was done that hurt me, that we apply justice to that. But I don't feel so hurt and offended like
that. Otherwise I will waste my life. Because this will be constant, this will happen many times. So if a person offends me, the problem is hers. I didn't accept that offense. There is a Zen story, well known, that talks about this. Maybe you already know it. It says that there was a master, a Zen master, that one day a young man came to challenge him, a young man from another monastery, because he was a great martial artist, and a young man came to challenge him. Then when he arrives, he starts to make a lot of
offenses to the master. He says the worst things to him, offends him in every way, and the master is very calm. Until he gives up, because he can't offend the master at all. And he leaves. The disciples say, but master, how did you hear so much dissatisfaction? And you didn't let yourself be affected by anything. How did you do something like that? He said, well, if you want to give me a gift and I don't accept it, whose gift is it? It's yours, right? You have to take it back. He wanted to give me these
offenses. I didn't accept it, he took it back with him. So this is an interesting thing, according to the Indians, in this Baltic side. You learn to react. You learn to react to these things without them affecting you so much. Well, I need to be fair, I need this person to be led to some kind of judgment, so that she doesn't do this to everyone. But not because I have hatred for her. Not because this has overwhelmed me deeply. I know how to lead myself in such a way that I am fair, I do what
I have to do, and I follow my life with lightness. I don't stay eternally bitter because someone offended me. So this for them is the first thing. The Baltic side consists of you not letting the daily pains of coexistence affect you so much. Be fair, but don't get attached to this fact for life outside. Then comes the second type of pain for the ancient India, which is the didaivika, which means belonging to daiva or destiny, the invisible or divine forces, including karmic consequences. Learn to accept with the necessary purification. What does that mean? There are
things that I missed in the past. For those who believe in other incarnations, for those who don't believe here, I made mistakes. And these mistakes are a cause that will have an effect. At some point this will come back on me. Be patient, be accepting, understand that these are effects of causes that I generated. And therefore I have a debt, I have to pay it with sobriety, nobility, and not despair with it. Know that the mistakes I made will come back to me at some point, so that I can pay this bill. This is the
law of karma, cause and effect. Therefore, in the face of these things, man has to understand that while he does not purify himself completely, to the point of not acting, not a millimeter out of the law, not a millimeter out of the Dharma, which is the great law of the universe, is the arm of God extended over the cosmos, while he does not act precisely above the law, he will make mistakes, and these mistakes will have consequences. And in the same way that we accept, within a school series, for example, if I do a bad
test, I know I'll have to go to recovery, I know I'll have to go to a second time, I know I'll have to do some work to redeem that bad grade I had, it's part of it. Therefore, accept this karmic mechanic of life with sobriety. I know I made mistakes, these mistakes will come back to me. When they come back, I will be able to accept them with sobriety. I know I really made a mistake, and I will correct my conduct from this learning. And then comes the third pain, which for them is the mother
of pain, it is the worst of all pains. And it is, the worst of all pains, which is the diatmika. The diatmika literally means the soul, and includes suffering caused by our own mind, through the failure to recognize ourselves as a spirit. On this, the man must act throughout his life. This is the mother of pain. Changing in children, there is within us a divine essence, which came to the world to do something, then you wrapped this divine essence in a personality. This personality is totally alienated, turned away. She wants to survive at any cost,
she wants pleasures, she wants fun, she wants to stand out, she wants this, she wants that. At no time does she open a gap for this essence that came to the world to say a word, say what came, what came, what came to do in the world. At no time do you give space for your soul to manifest itself. Personality closes the stage. And takes account of the stage. And does not let anything internal of yours manifest. It says that this is the worst of all pains. It is the mother of pains. I remember that
once, many years ago, I always tell this detail, because I found it so significant, symbolically, I had a dream in which I was pregnant and I didn't want to let the child be born. At the time of birth. For some reason, I feared something, I don't remember the details. I knew that I was hugging that belly and I didn't want to let the child be born. And the pains were horrible. And I kept this image, this image was very impacted on me. You know what it is? You have something germinating inside you, wanting to come
to life, and you don't let it. Can you imagine how much of our pain that should come from there? Frustrations, anguish, depressions. There is something inside us that came to the world to give a message. That came to the world to carry out a mission. And we don't let it. Because our time is over. Our time is all divided between banalities, between superficialities, between absolutely unimportant things. And I don't have a moment of inner life, I don't have a moment where I manifest what I really am. It says that this causes a process of as
if it were a birth, which is not being realized. You are not letting yourself be born in the world. And then comes pain, that the man sometimes doesn't know how to interpret what pain is. And then he looks for a thousand other things, and he finds the causes. Ah, it may be that when something is hurting and you don't know what it is, what are you going to do? You will associate the things you know. I'm feeling pain because when I was little, my mother did such a thing. I found the culprit for my pain.
It's not. You are suffering because you are alienated from your own soul. But it's hurting, you have to find a culprit. Ah, I'm suffering because so-and-so ended up with me. That is, it is a romantic pain. It's not. You are suffering because you can't stand yourself anymore. You can't stand living by running away from yourself the way you do. You can't stand being so alienated from the way you are. That's why you're suffering. But since we don't want to try to cure this pain, we try not to see it either. And then we live feeling
pain that we are stereotyping the sources. They are always the same things. And they are not, actually. It was not that. It was not that. It was not because the mother said, or because the girlfriend ended, or because the job is so-and-so. It was not that. It was frustration. When you pick up the pain with yourself, you can't stand the frustration you feel for the kind of life you are leading. The years go by. One day you have that birthday congratulations. You tell yourself how many years you have been there. How many cycles you have
already closed. What did I do of my dreams? Nothing. What did I achieve that makes you feel like that? What did I do that makes my life have value on earth? Nothing. What did I do? I survived. Trying to enjoy the most. I survived. But nothing. I will survive. Even a plant survives. You are a little more endowed with resources than a plant, my dear. A little more. I think I was supposed to do more. So this one, which is the Jatmika, this name comes from Atman, which is the name that in India is given
to this most spiritual element of man, which means your soul pressing to be born. And you don't let it be born. It is a stopped, interrupted birth. It is the mother of pain. And sometimes we give other names to her and she doesn't know that what is hurting is her. This is an interesting thing. It is that the man who is at peace with his own soul, who makes things that he can say, I made a difference to the world, I added, I did something valuable. This man is very prepared, even for death. He knows
that if he leaves the world at this moment, it's okay. I will stop doing a series of things. I could do more, but I already did something. I didn't live in vain. My presence in the world has already made a difference. I didn't live in vain. If the man is sure that his life is making a difference in the world, probably most of the pain that men suffer would not have. Because most come from there. And we don't know. We don't know how to attribute the source. Let's talk a little about the pain of vehicles.
This is important for us to understand. On a physical level, when it hurts, what is missing? Health is missing. There is a imbalance. We have a medical science that is fantastic. That is getting more and more modernized. That is full of resources. We have to look for a professional and see what is missing for the balance of our body. What is missing for our health. Physical pain is that. Medicine and reality. Medicine and healing resources. Emotional pain. What is missing for this pain to manifest? In general, what is missing, among other things, is a great
lack of confidence in life. Do you realize that sometimes when things happen, we feel totally helpless? As if that was a great injustice and you couldn't turn to anyone? During the pandemic, we have been in a state of crisis. During the pandemic, I went through a series, a battalion of people on the internet asking me this question. Why does God allow the pandemic? And it really didn't work to make this chat with God, to ask for details about his planning. But what I stop to imagine is the following. There is a meaning for all the
experiences of the world. There is a reason. Nothing is by chance. When a man believes that the world is casual, that life is casual, he believes that at any moment something will fall on his head, not because he has some need, but because he simply was unlucky. This institution of luck, which is a tremendous nonsense. Just like your opposite, luck. There is no luck or luck. There is the law of need. Which gives each one what corresponds to him at each moment. If I trust that life is like that, and knows what each one has
to give at each moment, I believe that what happens to me, is because I needed this experience. And that gives me a lot of calm. Trusting in life gives us a lot of calm. When you believe that it is chaos, you think, an injustice. What am I going to do? There is no resource, the universe is chaos. When I believe that the universe is cosmos, sooner or later I will understand the purpose of this experience. Sooner or later I will understand why I had to go through it. Because it makes sense. Everything makes sense, why
wouldn't this experience have? So sooner or later I will understand it. And that gives a lot of calm. Therefore, psychological pains are above all, overcome, let's say, supported, through trust in life and serenity. A capacity to control our emotions. Stay calm. Mental pain. What is missing? Why do we sometimes have mental pain? And we have. Mental pain is not just a headache. It is really pain of not knowing who you are in the midst of this world's nonsense. Lack of identity. Lack of own ideas. You look in the mirror and say, who are you, human
being? What do you think? What are the things you believe? Where do you want to go? There is no answer. You have to see what everyone is doing to answer. Because I never stop to think about these things. I have to look for the answers. I have to look for what is in fashion to think about it. To see what I think. Because I did not build an idea. There is nothing that is really mine. That is, I am nobody. When you take and do a statistic. Let's say I do a questionnaire of about ten
questions. And I do a statistic and see the average of the answers of people in Brazil at this time. About these ten questions. And then I take another citizen. And his individual answer. Does it coincide exactly with the average? What can I deduce from this? He did not think. He was thought. He just cloned what everyone is thinking. There is no hint of self-reflection. No hint of having stopped and thought about life itself. No hint of knowing yourself. There is nothing. He thinks what everyone thinks. And it hurts, you know? It hurts. It gives a
terrible emptiness. I do not know who I am. I am a stranger to myself. I remember. I always tell this in my lectures. It was an experience that marked me a lot. When I entered Nova Acrópole. I was a girl. And my teacher came to me and said. Tell me one thing. On your day. That has made you happy. What are the things in your life that make you happy? And I did not know how to answer. I was 24 years old. I did not know what made me happy. I got home and thought about
it. There was a moment when I was at the happy hour. I was not happy at all. I do not drink. Everyone drank. I was just upset. There was a moment when I was in such and such place. No, I was not either. Why am I doing these things? You do not give me any happiness. Because everyone does. And when was I happy? There was a moment when I was moving on the ground. And planting a rose. Now I know what makes me happy. I got in front of the mirror and said. What a mess.
You are 24 years old. I did not even know what makes you happy. What have you been doing for 24 years? So. It's amazing. This self-discovery. This total anonymity in which we live in front of ourselves. It hurts too. From there comes the so-called mental pain. Lack of identity. Lack of own ideas. Lack of knowing who you are in the world scheme. Spiritual pain. Lack of inner life. Lack of reflection. Lack of internal dialogue. Lack of practice of virtues. Lack of letting your soul express itself. Very similar to what India said just now. So, from
the impermanence of the material, discover in yourself something of a lasting nature. That justifies everything else. Act according to spiritual values. Stop at this moment and look at the things that make you happy. The things you have. Will any of them stay with you forever? Probably not. The house, no. The car, no. The clothes, no. Even the people around us. If they are older than us, they probably won't stay with us forever. Isn't that so? Everything is impermanent. Don't you think this is a source of anguish? The human being needs things that don't pass. He
needs a dose of eternity. When I love, for example, justice, I try to be just. When I love generosity, I try to be generous. And I come in front of the mirror and I guarantee myself that I will be generous while I breathe. I will be just while I breathe. I will not be generous. I will not allow it. Consciousness is born from contrast. In the contrast between what remains and what passes, you discover who you are. We have much more to do with these things that remain than with those that pass. The sum of
these things that remain is our identity. And if we don't find anything, life becomes tremendously distressing. It's the spiritual pains. The lack of inner life. The lack of reflection on what is true in the midst of all these things that are always being taken from us. What remains, what remains. Finally, I wanted to make a reflection on this with you, because I found it interesting. Notice everything we said on this last page. Regarding physical pain, emotional pain, mental pain, spiritual pain. It's always because something is missing. Don't you think this is curious? Therefore, pain has
more to do with the future than with the past. Why am I suffering? Why did they do such a thing to me? It's not exactly because of that. Are you suffering because of the virtue that you had to have possessed so that it would not offend you? You didn't have. The attitude you had to have taken, you didn't know how to take. The value I had to have conquered, I didn't know how to take. Therefore, I suffer for what is in the future. For lack of it. That person hit me, why? Because I was so
vulnerable that I let myself be hit. Because I gave so much importance to the other's opinion that I let her hurt me. In other words, things are missing for me. Suffering has much more to do with the future than with the past. There comes a point that, in the face of a painful situation, I recommend this reflection to you. Ask yourself. What is missing here so that it doesn't hit me? A person hit you, a person hurt you, a situation offended you. What is missing in me to protect me so that it didn't hurt me?
Then you will realize that maybe you are a little late in the victim relationship of life. Because life has a programming, it brings experiences. What did you have to do? You had to have acquired virtues to be able to withstand the experiences. Life was faster than you. It gave you an experience and you hadn't conquered the virtue yet. You were left behind. In general, it is not because of what happened, but it is because of the virtue that we needed to have that we don't have yet. That is there in the future. It is because
of the lack that we suffer. That which we have not yet built. Much more than for what is in the past. It is for what is in the future. This is interesting for us to realize. That happened. That event showed you that something important is missing. And that therefore you must provide urgently. Continuing. Pain is not a demerit. It is a delicate thing to deal with, but we have to deal with it. Pain is not because you are an evil person and have to suffer. It doesn't exist. Pain can be perfectly because you did everything
right and now it's time to move on to the following experience. Can't you? A boy who did everything right in the third series. Everything is fine. It's been a year. Then he will have to move on to the fourth. Where colleagues change, teachers change. He will have to adapt again. It is painful. The change is painful. But why is the change painful? Because he did well in the last stage. And now he has to move on to the next. Imagine that every time we suffer because we did something wrong. That would be a kind of...
A sinister view of life. So I'm making mistakes all the time. It's not like that. It's not a punishment because you did something wrong. It's because at that moment life programmed this for you. Because you need to learn and grow. And the other side too. Pain is not a demerit. It doesn't indicate that you are bad. Nor is pain a merit. That there is also this mentality. I have to suffer to purify myself. This pain will be to be able to pay my sins. This comes from a very... It's delicate to say, but it's true.
It comes from a wrong Christian mentality. Jesus Christ suffered a lot. So I have to suffer too. Because that's what's right. I am not Jesus Christ. This is not how it works. Ah, because if I suffer, I will purify my sins. Imagine some divine being. That you believe. Be it God, be it Jesus. Be it any master of any religion. That you believe. And would he have any pleasure in seeing you suffer? Why would you provoke a suffering without need? Thinking that this will please God? Why would he want any of his children to suffer
for nothing? One thing is to face with due dignity the necessary pains. Another thing is to invent pains. And that happens. Oh, I'm so suffering. I will receive the kingdom of heaven. No. The kingdom of heaven is for smarter people. Not those who put their finger in the pin and live their lives outside. This is the hell of masochists. Right? The kingdom of heaven is not for that. So these mistakes exist in both. And within the Christian mentality. I repeat. Many times, the middle ages had this crazy. Then people would be there, tickling each other.
Massacring each other. Because with that they would have some kind of indulgence of their sins. Then we think. Now we overcome the sin. And we think. Oh, this didn't get better. We still have and a lot. Well, pain is part of the duality of life. And it can be used as a vehicle of consciousness. This is the basis of the mentality of another religion. Which is Buddhism. Buddhism is a very interesting religion in this sense. Because it is born from the desire to overcome pain. It was all built around that. So it has some very
interesting guidelines to pass on this subject. Imagine you. A 15 year old boy. A boy. A teenager. And one day he discovered. That people get old. People get sick. And people die. Then he decided. A 15 year old boy said the following. I will not rest until I free humanity from pain. And he left. And he didn't rest until he found a way to free himself from pain. Man is the size of his difficulties. Imagine a problem of this size in the life of a child. What size did this human being have? To get to
do what he did. This was Siddhartha Gautama, a Buddha. He had exactly this concern. To overcome the pain of humanity. To find a way to overcome the pain of humanity. A boy who sees a person one day. Old, a sick person, a dead person. And says. I will free humanity from this. From these great pains. And builds a whole doctrine on this search for overcoming pain. And says. I will free humanity from this. From these great pains. And builds a whole doctrine on this search for overcoming pain. This is the doctrinal basis of Buddhism. Let's
get to know it a little. As a curiosity. Here are some reflections. That are worth knowing before we know the question of pain in Buddhism. It is necessary to understand that pain is a sign of the body. So that it takes an attitude. Act. Take your hand off the fire. Says the pain. Don't eat that anymore. Says the discomfort. Don't relate to him anymore. Says the sadness. This is not the voice of pain. It indicates exactly what should be corrected. If you, instead of complaining. If you, instead of complaining. Be able to talk to her.
The wise man dialogues with pain. And assimilates his advice. All pain has something to tell you. Dialogue with her and know what she advises you. What has to be conquered? What has to be overcome? What is in the future that we have to conquer? To get out of that situation? And what are the elements of the past that we have to overcome? And what are the elements of the past that we have to overcome? What are the elements of the past that we have to overcome? Instead of carrying my moral pain like a burden. Instead
of carrying my moral pain like a burden. Can I use it as a tool? Have you noticed that the overcoming of pain. Sometimes brings us a level of light out of the ordinary? Sometimes brings us a level of light out of the ordinary? Sometimes brings us a level of light out of the ordinary? Great thoughts are born from pain. Your overcoming is a great moment. When you can make a synthesis. When you can make a synthesis. And understand why you are suffering. And overcome the pain. With the use of elevation of consciousness. Of learning, maturity.
Overcoming pain means. Congratulations, you grew. Isn't that right? Someday you will sit and think about everything that happened, which is torturing you. You come to the conclusion, you want to know something? This is all because I did not take such a posture, I will take it now and I will end it. I will stop at that moment. And you can do it. And the pain stays behind. a glorious moment, the overcoming of pain, done by a willful act, consciously, by learning something new, can make you overcome several steps in life. And that's what it exists
for, by the way. So, look for this glorious moment, where we synthesize the why of pain, and find a way out for it. Then we will get to know it very quickly, because this is not the subject of the lecture, but only some ideas from the Buddhist view of pain, which is very interesting. They put four noble truths. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, when he got over pain, he came to this synthesis. The four noble truths. The first one is about pain. What is pain? Pain is something that is part of life. Birth is pain, death
is pain, in the middle of the path there are a thousand pains, pain is part of life. So pain is a normal mechanism of life. It is the first noble truth. About pain. The second noble truth is about the cause of pain. The cause of pain is the attachment you have to things that you will necessarily lose. That is, things are all temporary, all transitory in life. I cling to something that will soon go away, because it is part of the flow. And I cling terribly and suffer. The cause of pain is that we want
to take as ours things that are temporary. Not even this here, my physical body is not mine. At a certain moment it will be taken away. So I should cling to things that are permanent. If I cling to my generosity, to my capacity for altruism, they will never take it away from me. Maybe not even death will take it away from me. Now, if I cling to my long hair, to my no-curls hair, to my ... You will suffer. You will suffer. Do not doubt it. Every time we want to freeze what is flow, that
will have to follow its destiny, we are condemning ourselves to suffer. Therefore, the second noble truth speaks about the cause of pain. Tanhã, thirst for the pleasures of the senses. We are attached to what we will necessarily lose. The third noble truth will tell us that it is possible to overcome pain. It is possible to be in a world where pain exists and not even for that you suffer with them. It is possible to overcome pain. The fourth noble truth will tell us about the path to overcoming pain. That is what the Buddhist tradition calls
the Noble Octagonal Path. So, the four noble truths, we've seen. And then we will see the Noble Octagonal Path. It is important that you understand that the Noble Octagonal Path, are eight things, eight measures that the man will have to take, it symbolically represents everything you will do in your life. Everything has to be done in a straight way, in a noble way. When I do something, for example, we have here the Noble Octagonal Path. When I have straight opinions, my intention is that people say, wow, how wise he is, right? How good his opinions
are. Look at this interesting citizen, look how he says appropriate things. That's it, my dear, I'm going to lose. Soon there will come someone who will not like what I'm saying. Today I have fame, tomorrow I am absolutely ignored. Today they mock me, tomorrow they hate me. The world is dual, it is so. I will not give up. Now, do you know why I want to have straight opinions? Because I want to be a straight person. Regardless of what others think they want. I want the straightness. Ah, okay, then you have something you can keep.
Because if you are straight, you can continue to be until the last moment of your life. Who can take that away from you? So you guarantee that you have something that is permanent. And then it goes. It is the noble octopus, that is, straight opinions, straight intentions, straight words, straight conduct, straight means of life, straight effort, straight attention, straight concentration. Eight acts, straight. I say it is symbolic because it represents everything you can do in life. Straight way to get on the internet. It fits, it fits. Straight way to get on the elevator. It fits,
it fits. Straight everything you do in life. It is the noble octopus. He is trying to summarize all the activities of life. That you do them all in a straight way. Do you know what that means? I'm going to take my desire for reward from recognition for these actions. And I'm going to put it in the straightness. I'm happy just because I was straight. And not because people recognized what I did. Because I gained some kind of success. Because I gained some kind of profit within society. No. I gained material results. But for the straightness
itself. If I was straight, I'm already happy. What will come from there does not interest me so much. One thing is you wanting to grow as a human being. Wanting to be bigger. This is a dream. But not that you are desperate after that all the time. Every step you take, you have to be happy with what you have. With the beauty of what life gives you at every moment. It's impressive how life gives us beautiful things. At every moment. Every day. One day I was out in my house to pick up the clothes that
were in the closet. One moment. Nothing. I looked and saw the clothes of the people I love, the people in my family, dancing in the closet. I imagined those things that involve our body with so much dignity. That allow us to act. That allow us to do what we have to do in life. Look how beautiful it is. It seems that they are there. Telling our story to the wind. It was a very beautiful scene. Those fabrics flying in the wind. As if they were telling our story to the wind. I found that a beautiful
moment. I stopped to observe the dance of the clothes on the curtain. It's beautiful. It's beautiful the moment you're seeing the little plant here. Making that force to break the earth on top of it. What a miracle life is. It's amazing one of those things. All moments are full of beauty. Why do I have to be anxious for something that will happen in the future? What kind of life is this? What kind of happiness is this? To the point that a person becomes a YouTube network and recommends it as universal happiness. You have to have
libido. You have to be desperate for something. Otherwise you will be apathetic. How are we lost? Are we not? How are we lost? So no one can be happy with what they have. You have to be desperate to achieve something else. That is not his. So he will lose too. He gets desperate for something else. That is, it is a crossroad of despair. What is this? What the noble Octopus of the Way is proposing, understand this, is that you want to be straight. And not the final goal of what you did, if people liked it
or not, if it was successful or not. You want to be straight. I acted in a straight way, great. I was recognized? No. Ah, okay. But I did what I had to do. I left my mark in the world. I did things the way I had to do. I was a human being. Whoever passed through my day today was a human being. Therefore, I am worthy of a happy day. From the sleep of the righteous, I did what corresponded to me. This is one of the forms of pain that our society cultivates. The despair for
achieving something that is ahead. Then you run, run, run. When you get there and reach that thing, it was not so good. Your despair was not worth it. Then you have to despair for another. Isn't that right? To the point of recommending yourself as a model of life. I found it very curious. So for Buddhism it is this. Act with rectitude and you will overcome the pains. The pain comes a lot from the anguish and expectations we have about life. Then I brought you some sentences that I think are one of the most beautiful things
that has ever been written about pain. Which is Kali Ujjibran. I know our time is over. But it is very worth knowing the prophet of Kali Ujjibran. Which is a wonderful book for those who do not know. He talks about pain. And some of his statements have everything to do with everything we have talked about so far. As a reflection so that we have a beautiful ending. Talking about the meanings of pain in human life. So your pain is breaking the shell that involves your understanding. That is, you break that shell that involved. That prevented
you from seeing reality. It's like you were opening a door. So your pain is the one that makes you break barriers and get closer to your essence. Your pain breaks the shells of the shell that involves your understanding. As the seed of the fruit must be broken so that your heart appears before the sun. So you must also know the pain. Something must be broken. Something must be left behind. And it hurts. But also from that something new will be born. And occupy that space. If your hearts could always be amazed with the daily miracle
of your lives. Your pain would not seem less wonderful than your joy. You stop to analyze your life. How worthy was that moment when I was suffering? How I tried to position myself in the best possible way as a human being. How I tried to live my pain with dignity. How I tried to overcome it in the best possible way. It's a moment as beautiful as any other. Don't you realize that? When you look at the past and remember a moment of pain. Don't you think you're beautiful overcoming pain? Don't you think that moment was
a sacred moment? If we had this notion that everything in life is necessary. Everything would seem beautiful to us. Even painful moments. And would you accept the existence of pain? And would you accept the seasons of your heart? As you always accepted the seasons that pass under your fields. And would you wait with serenity during the winters of your suffering? We have autumn, winter, spring, summer. And we prepare. We know we're going to be cold. We know we're going to be hot. We know it's time to plant. We know it's time to harvest. And if
we are prepared for that, we do not suffer. There will be moments of loss. There will be moments of gain. There will be moments when everyone loves me. There will be a moment when many do not love me. There will be moments when people recognize me. Moments that completely forget me. I'm ready for all seasons of life. Because life is cyclical. It will go through all of them. Necessarily. And if we don't prepare, we will be caught by surprise. For colder than we can stand. Or hotter than we can stand. Know that life is cyclical.
Just like the seasons are. And it will bring us very diversified moments. And guarantee that we are prepared for them. Many of your pains, you chose them yourself. It is the bitterest remedy with which your inner doctor cures your sick self. Sometimes we want, I don't know, a very greedy person. Who wants to own many things. She is asking for the proof to go to the bank. To learn to value other things in life. She is asking. Once I read a text that talked a little about this. When a person asks God, for example, to
learn to be patient. What is she asking? May God put a boring in her life. So she acquires patience. Because of our needs, we could know what we are asking for life. We are asking for experiences that will give us this level of life. This is what we need to have to keep walking. We choose ourselves. Because if we want to grow, life hears. Ah, he wants to grow. I will send exactly the tests that will hit these points that he needs to work. Unconsciously, we are the ones who ask for this in life. Therefore,
trust in the doctor and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. Because your hand, although heavy and hard, is guided by the soft hand of the invisible. And the cup he gives you, although it burns your lips, was made of the clay that the eye has moistened with his sacred tears. Everything came from the meaning. Everything came from something greater. And pain, then, is also sacred. I remember that phrase from that philosopher from the last century that I always quote in my lectures. Mercelli-Adde. That the sacred is the function of giving meaning. If a pain
made you grow, does that make sense? Yes. Then it was sacred. If a pain made me overcome a weakness, does that make sense? Yes. Then it was sacred. As sacred as any moment of joy. It was ceremonial. Finally, summarizing everything we saw in all these traditions. Physical pain warns of something wrong to correct. Moral pain can indicate a moment of growth. Therefore, if it is hurting on the emotional, mental, spiritual level, run after it. What you need is growth. On the physical level, you need health. On the subtle levels, you need growth. Life demands growth.
Serenity, confidence in life and the desire to grow. These are three infallible elements against pain. They are not the tetrapharmacin of the epicure, but they are better. They work well. Remember the law of the cycles of nature. So as not to expect that life is always linear and always brings the same nature of things. Be prepared for the cycles of life. We would not be what we are without our pains. Think about what we are, how much we grow, we owe our pains. Therefore, have more self-control and more patience with the difficult moments of life.
Because they promise to make you greater than they found you. Remember that initial advice. That I only leave this test greater than I entered. And finally, this Nietzsche phrase, which I find quite interesting. If you opt for the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for pain. Necessarily. Or we stagnate so as not to hurt. And then comes the worst of pains. Which is the pain of not meaning anything in the world. Of not having done anything. Of not being anyone. When we escape pain, we fall into even greater pains. And that's what I would like to
bring to you as a reflection. I hope we have covered the issue from various angles. That it can serve for you as a good reflection. About how to face our pains. What to think of them. And the sobriety, the balance and the confidence in life that we have to have. To be able to face and answer them. And a great love for growth. As a purpose of life. We want to leave here greater than we entered.
