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Cessation of mental suffering || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Nirvana
Suffering
Resistance
Perfection
Conditioning
Ego
Fear
Kabir Saheb
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the cessation of suffering is not the stopping of something real, but rather the cessation of the confidence one places in suffering. He describes suffering as a psychological concept rooted in the false perception of being limited or small. This perception leads to resistance, and it is this resistance to reality that constitutes suffering. He distinguishes between pain, which is a physical fact, and suffering, which is an imaginary psychological state. A person who lives truly may experience pain but does not suffer because they do not feel bad about themselves or resist the situation.