How to Cultivate the Discipline of Great Suffering

Suffering can enhance us, or it can destroy us; and often what determines which plays out are the beliefs and assumptions we hold about the meaning and value of suffering. In this video we explore how a negative vision of suffering has infected the modern zeitgeist and fueled a widespread dependence on psychiatric and illicit drugs, alcohol, junk food, pornography, and technology use. We then present a positive vision of suffering which can help us cultivate what Nietzsche called “the discipline of great suffering”, which involves heroically enduring suffering and using it as a catalyst for personal growth.