#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  We all have so many afflictions. We have so much suffering that it's not funny. Ordinary people prefer to look away from that—choose to ignore that because they, they tell themselves—so we're suffering. So what are we going to do? Uh, so we—ordinary people—distract themselves from that. They say, "Okay, I suffer during the week working and, uh, on the weekends or after hours, I go and have fun to compensate for it." This is a... a typical reaction of all of us. Uh, we distract ourselves instead of trying to find a solution, and that's the nature of entrapment of slavery. And so we are all skilled at doing that. **We submit ourselves.** **We, we, we are willing to slave for our desires in this world—until the day we die—and then plan to come back and continue.** **And no one ever dares question that because we have a slave mentality.** **We condemn slavery but we never condemn slaving for our desires. Actually, we glorify it.** Uh, we glorify the celebrities, and the fame, and the power, and most of us die disappointed and bitter.