EPISODE · Apr 24, 2026 · 2H 36M
On Buddha and the End of Suffering | The Complete Buddhist Philosophy For Sleep
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Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/voteThere is a story that begins with a man who had everything, and who walked away from all of it on a single night. Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of the Buddha.Twenty-five centuries ago, a prince in the foothills of the Himalayas left three palaces, a wife, and a newborn son because he had seen three things on a road that made the comfort of his life intolerable. Six years later, sitting under a fig tree in what is now northern India, he claimed to have understood something that no accumulation of pleasure could reach, and he spent the next forty-five years explaining it to anyone who would listen. Over the next two and a half hours, we walk through ten chapters of his life and his thought, from the diagnosis that life is suffering, through the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, into the radical doctrines of no-self and impermanence, through the twelve links of dependent origination, and out into a comparison with Heraclitus, Hume, and Schopenhauer. This is not a devotional video. It is a careful, philosophical reading of the Buddha as one of the great systematic thinkers of any civilization, a physician of the mind whose prescription can still be tested today.Please listen only in safe, restful contexts.(0:00:00) Life Is Suffering(0:16:02) The Prince Who Left(0:31:27) The Night Under the Tree(0:47:01) The Four Noble Truths(1:02:23) The Eightfold Path(1:18:35) No Self(1:33:39) Everything Changes(1:48:56) The Chain of Becoming(2:05:13) The Buddha Among the Philosophers(2:21:36) The Wheel Keeps TurningThe Dhammapada, translated by Gil Fronsdal, Shambhala Publications: https://amzn.to/4eCMf7lIn the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications: https://amzn.to/4sNyxlCThe Foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin, Oxford University Press: https://amzn.to/4tmE57CThe Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Pariyatti Publishing: https://amzn.to/4ctgHiQBuddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction, Mark Siderits, Hackett Publishing Company: https://amzn.to/3QCgS2MBuddha, Karen Armstrong, Penguin Lives: https://amzn.to/4u36dMWMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.All research and writing is done personally.
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Vote on what comes next: https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/voteThere is a story that begins with a man who had everything, and who walked away from all of it on a single night. Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of the Buddha.Twenty-five centuries ago, a prince in the foothills of the Himalayas left three palaces, a wife, and a newborn son because he had seen three things on a road that made the comfort of his life intolerable. Six years later, sitting under a fig tree in what is now northern India, he claimed to have understood something that no accumulation of pleasure could reach, and he spent the next forty-five years explaining it to anyone who would listen. Over the next two and a half hours, we walk through ten chapters of his life and his thought, from the diagnosis that life is suffering, through the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, into the radical doctrines of no-self and impermanence, through the twelve links of dependent origination, and out into a comparison with Heraclitus, Hume, and Schopenhauer. This is not a devotional video. It is a careful, philosophical reading of the Buddha as one of the great systematic thinkers of any civilization, a physician of the mind whose prescription can still be tested today.Please listen only in safe, restful contexts.(0:00:00) Life Is Suffering(0:16:02) The Prince Who Left(0:31:27) The Night Under the Tree(0:47:01) The Four Noble Truths(1:02:23) The Eightfold Path(1:18:35) No Self(1:33:39) Everything Changes(1:48:56) The Chain of Becoming(2:05:13) The Buddha Among the Philosophers(2:21:36) The Wheel Keeps TurningThe Dhammapada, translated by Gil Fronsdal, Shambhala Publications: https://amzn.to/4eCMf7lIn the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications: https://amzn.to/4sNyxlCThe Foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin, Oxford University Press: https://amzn.to/4tmE57CThe Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Pariyatti Publishing: https://amzn.to/4ctgHiQBuddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction, Mark Siderits, Hackett Publishing Company: https://amzn.to/3QCgS2MBuddha, Karen Armstrong, Penguin Lives: https://amzn.to/4u36dMWMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.All research and writing is done personally.
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