Gets Hurt Easily? - This is for You! || Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

Full video: How to stop taking things personally? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Transcript

00:00Something hurts you only when you exist to resist that thing, right?

00:04A stone thrown through air does not hurt the air, or does it?

00:08But it hurts the first thing that resists it.

00:11So when you see that your personhood is a myth, you become the air.

00:15You become the open sky.

00:17Then you cannot be hurt.

00:19You're not hurting me.

00:20I'm not who you are, who you think I am.

00:22You're throwing something at me.

00:24It passes through me.

00:25I can be hurt only if first of all I am the person you think I am.

00:29I'm not that.

00:31So when one stops taking herself seriously, it becomes very difficult for the world to hurt her.

00:40And remember, if someone can hurt you, they can also possess you.

00:44The one who is able to hurt you will also be able to control you.

00:48And you do not want to be controlled, right?