You're not a victim, you're a survivor! #shorts

If you look at the Buddha's life, he was a prince. He could have had anything given to him, delivered to him. His father was the king, right? So, and his father said, you can have anything you want, just never go beyond the walls of the compound. So what does he do? Goes beyond the walls of the compound. He says, of course, right? So looks around and sees, wow, this is horrible out here. No wonder he doesn't want me out here. So goes back inside. Years goes by. He sneaks out a couple of more times. And what he realizes is people are suffering on the other side of the wall, and on this side of the wall, everybody's got it made. So he realizes that in order to become enlightened, or in his words, it was to save the world from suffering, he must experience what suffering is because he had no idea. So what he tells us is you have to experience all the bad and all the good in order to become enlightened. Because you can't become enlightened if you've only lived half a life. It's being okay when nothing is okay.

And we all have different experiences that when we all come back to our home, we rejoin and we've now, we've got the benefit of that, those experiences together.

When I work with clients, I point out what their suffering was because chances are you've gone through it and your suffering is the worst suffering in the world because it's yours. Absolutely. My suffering is the worst. We don't need to do the comparison. You've been there, you've experienced it. We're just going to pull it out and show you that you're not a victim, you're a survivor. And once you've accomplished that, you understand what the basis of this reality is.

Oh, Ray, you just gave me chills. That must mean real stuff is happening here, because, uh, no, you're right.