MINDFULNESS VIDEO SERIES (5): HOW TO STOP SUFFERINGS IN THIS WORLD

HOW TO STOP SUFFERING? WHO AM I? WHAT IS MY REAL IDENTITY?
Many of the problems that we will experience are connected to the temporary nature of the body that we have.
It is said that mindfulness helps a person increase their self awareness. But who is the self? If a person wants to be really mindful and find solutions to the problems that we face in this world, then we need to consider “Who am I?”

Studies at the Oak Ridge Atomic Research Center revealed that about 98 percent of all the atoms in a human body are replaced every year. You get a new suit of skin every month and a new liver every six weeks. The lining of your stomach lasts only five days before it is replaced. Even your bones are not the solid, stable structures you might have thought them to be. They are undergoing constant change. The bones you have today are different from the bones you had a year ago. 1 Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1978), pp. 321-22

Many people believe that a person is the brain or some part of the brain. Recent studies on the turnover of the molecular population within a given nerve cell have indicated that... their macromolecular contingent is renewed about ten thousand times in a lifetime. In other words, the matter making up each brain cell is completely renewed every three days.
*There is a complete, 100 percent turnover of atoms in the body at least every five years.
There is a famous saying that virtually all suffering in this world is because people misidentify themselves and others as their temporary bodies.