Men and Women seek eternal happiness. Some people say their fulfillment lie with success in career, family, relationships, and pets. At the end of the day however, when you lie in bed awake can you truly say that you are happy? How many of us can say that we are truly euphoric with the way our lives have turned out?
Suffering and Us
Anguish arises from the disconnection of our thoughts and emotion from the realities of life. Restlessness is the root of all evil. We look at our discontentment and then view the outside world, but what we fail to realize is that like sorrow discontent is rooted within ourselves. Yet, we have never bothered to investigate or question our thoughts, our reasons for feeling uneasy. Time and time again, people try to feed their vexation with jumping from one thing to another, always failing to correlate that although intangible discontentment is not just a feeling it is a state of mind.
With the birth of everything Zen and spiritual one spiritual guru said that when you grind a knife against a grinding wheel sparks will fly; that is the nature of friction. People argue with themselves because they weigh whether to follow their...