Buddhist Teacher: No One Is Talking About This Hidden Epidemic! The Western Lie Behind Depression and Anxiety

We're all at the mercy of our own minds. But the problem is is that in modern life we're constantly made to feel we're not good enough. Something's always missing and I will be happy or unhappy if this or that happens to me. So we become prisoners of life. And you weren't this the hard way. Yes, when I was in a long retreat, cut off from the world for four years. and memories were coming up from the past that would build into horrific amounts of depression, anxiety, pain, and I jumped over the wall and tried to escape because of what happened to me when I was fourteen. Are you comfortable talking about this? Erlong Tupton is a Buddhist monk who spent over 30 years helping Hollywood stars, CEOs, and corporations stay in control within a world overloaded with stress, addiction, anxiety, and burnout. Here we go.

I became controlled by distraction, controlled by negative thinking. What is life gonna do to me next? How will I handle it? And things only changed when I Hit rock bottom. I had spent so much effort trying to push that suffering away. 'Cause it's so disgusting and so shameful. But it was just making it worse. So many of us run away from pain though. But the reality is you can run to the end of the earth and that thing that has been tormenting you will always trip you up. And so I went back into that retreat knowing the methods are there. I just need to know how to use them and I could Learn to conquer this. And that's where meditation comes in. You think you can teach me? Because I very much feel like I'm on the receiving end of life. First of all, chuck all those things away. There's a lot of spiritual tat, isn't there?

I actually hated meditation when I first did it because there's a lot of misconceptions and actually all you're doing is these three things to be less controlled by negative thinking. And the beauty of this is that they can show in brain scans there'll be visible changes in your brain. So let's try this. Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me thirty seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place.

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