#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  What's affliction? It's a state of agitation of the mind. Your mind is agitated. That's—you're afflicted because your mind is agitated; it's being moved. And people of the world... they... nothing they can do. When they are afflicted, they are confused. They have no means of dealing with their own afflictions except [to] substitute one affliction for another. What they don't realize [is that] when they're afflicted... they do something else which only creates more afflictions for them. Actually, [it] aggravates the afflictions. The current affliction is still there, but it's... now it's being in the background and something else on the foreground. You see that? And that's why... that's called... what is that called? Accumulation.