Examples of this pain are problems with acquaintances, family and friends, my love partner, traffic, a shop closure, defect washing machine.

This form of suffering seems to be the easiest of all forms of suffering to solve, because I am in contact with my environment and can thus influence my environment.

But blind spots can perpetuate warped relationships.

Blind spots can always get me into trouble while I think it’s because of the environment. For example, an aggressive attitude in traffic. While I assume that it is the outside world, I project my dissatisfaction onto the world around me (behind every form of suffering lies the inner imbalance and misunderstanding that arises from ignorance, a distorted self-image. This is the third form of suffering, called ādhyātmika tāpas).

The person who is clean on the inside will not suffer from this type of pain so quickly. This figure experiences a beautiful, neutral, funny world. Take an irritation about something as completely neutral as a material thing that breaks. Or the fluctuating of my mood with the fluctuations of my bank balance.

Praying oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ (oṃ, peace, peace, peace) seeks relief for the three kinds of suffering: ādhidaivika tāpas, ādhibhautika tāpas, ādhyātmika tāpas.