This is daily breath. I'm the park shopra. We're on our journey from here to here, journey without distance, secrets of

the self from the book of secrets.

The most common reason that people turn to spirituality is to deal with suffering.

Our fifth secret of the self reveals the cause of our suffering.

What is the cause of our suffering?

Here it is in one word, illusion. The cause of all suffering is illusion or

unreality. So let's discuss this one point.

First thing I want to say is that pain, physical pain is not the same as suffering.

Physical pain is actually a very important experience.

It tells us that something is wrong.

So if you didn't have pain in your toes and you had gout, you'd never seek medical advice.

If you didn't have indigestion, you'd never correct the cause of the indigestion.

If you never experienced heartburn,

you'd never know that you have acid reflux

and that needs to be corrected. In fact people who lose the ability to

experience pain as a result of neuropathy for example, neuropathy or

neuritis which happens with diabetes for example or other

diseases neurological diseases people who do not experience physical pain

their limbs atrophy. They lose their toes and they get burns and they get all kinds of problems and then they begin to suffer.

So pain is not the same as suffering.

Pain is a useful symptom to remind you that something is wrong and you need to correct that.

You need to go back to self-regulation.

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