#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  What is liberation? Liberation from your afflictions. This is what most people don't think about because you you are submerged in it day in day out. That's why you don't see it as a need to liberate yourself anymore. We so afflicted and we don't know how to put an end to it. putting an end to it is to liberate ourselves from afflictions. When you're afflicted, you keep on draining people. You keep on draining others around you. Being afflicted is like being a black hole. We can sucking and draining people's energy. And that's why afflicted people are unpleasant to be with. In other words, people are draining each other constantly. So to be liberated from your afflictions is actually a virtuous thing because you are not constantly draining others 24 hours a day. Isn't that interesting Buddhist perspective how damaging it is to be afflicted? So that's a virtue. The virtue is that if we are free from afflictions, we're not draining anyone.