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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Nov 2025
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 4 of 3,584, 1 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 0 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 1 of 4,438, 1 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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May 15, 2026
Where they stand
Talking pointsNot enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Emptiness should be understood as a lack of self-centeredness rather than blank nothingness.
“Perhaps on the simplest level we can understand emptiness to mean lack of selfcenteredness.”
Be Here Now Network · Nov 2025 · 3 episodes · 72K views on this topic
True identity is found in timeless loving awareness rather than the physical body.
“You rent it. You get to use the body, but you are that spirit that was born into this body that will also leave it.”
Be Here Now Network · Dec 2025 · 2 episodes · 5K views on this topic
The speaker finds it difficult to adhere to the Buddhist practice of abstaining from alcohol and cravings while attempting to incorporate it into his life.
“Buddhism, am I right? They talk about cutting away your cravings. I talked about it on the channel and you don't realize how desperately you need certain things or how hard it is. Yeah, I'm fine. Until you try and cut it out. Just like I try to completely cut away eating snacks.”
PewDiePie · Jul 2018 · 1 episode · 4.4M views on this topicDA
Dr. Aria suggests that realizing life inherently involves suffering and accepting its temporary nature is a path to clarity and resilience.
“I came to this realization that life involves suffering. There's no promise that it's going to be happy golucky and really pleasant all the time. really horrific things happen in life.”
The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2020 · 1 episode · 1.3M views on this topicDW
The Buddha's core teaching on suffering is that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional and can be managed by reducing resistance.
“So the pain is inevitable but the suffering is optional and the key is to reduce the resistance as close to zero as we can.”
10% Happier · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 846 views on this topic
The concept of desire causes human suffering because it reinforces the belief that one is lacking.
“there's this saying that goes that the wanting is part of the suffering because the more you want reinforces the idea in your mind that you don't already have it”
TigerBelly · Oct 2019 · 1 episode · 223K views on this topicEmptiness is a state where there is no self, and realizing this helps one move past the suffering caused by personal identification.
“the deepest teaching the Buddha gave I think was the concept of anata meaning there is no self that the self what you experience as me is just a set of phenomena that are coming and going”
Be Here Now Network · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 38K views on this topicBW
Bruce WagnerUnrated
The social order imposes a specific form of suffering that is conditional.
“The last suffering is the conditional suffering which my interpretation is that the suffering imposed upon us by the social order.”
The Rich Roll Podcast · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 14K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Jul 2018