What suffering is, what produces it, and how it ends.
In life, you cannot always get what you want in the way you want to get it. Sometimes, to get what you want, you have to do what it takes to get it the way it needs to be done.
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Emotional pain and suffering is very easy to eliminate because it's essentially not real. You must test this information and prove it to yourself in under one minute. You must do the proving yourself with this very simple exercise otherwise if it...
Racism and bigotry are very common in this world unfortunately and many people have to face this sad reality. Many immigrants feel that in their new country they've lost their confidence, they feel depressed and lost. In their home country, they ...
Thinking of the past, regrets or things people did that upset you, will just keep upsetting you. Negative thoughts make the brain secrete chemicals which are destructive to the body, like acid burning away your heart or stomach.. Just remember th...
Remember this in relation to anything that you find is earth shatteringly important, and you will free yourself from so much pain and frustration and have far less arguments.. Yes, there are some things which are very important, but this ethic is...
Other than the hell you live each day in regrets. Live in a way that you have nothing to regret and you will never live in hell.. Exercises. Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say. Pay attention to your words, noticing whether or not they are ...
Stress is a learnt weakness, it is not natural. It is natural to be able to handle everything calmly. How can we overcome this habitual stressful reaction? We must put in effort to feel stress. It is fully self-created and self-maintained. St...
A wild animal doesn't mate well in captivity. There is no room for its spirit to roam free so it will not have the motivation to reproduce in its small cage. Then it takes viagra to deliver what nature moves it to want. Using this analogy, see ho...
Ask yourself this question; 'If you were given a choice, would you choose to have $10 million but not be entirely happy or, to be incredibly happy all the time.' Another question is; 'Would you rather fit in to society and be accepted as normal b...
At some times, perhaps many times in our life, we all feel that God or some demon is out to get us. I certainly have been thoroughly convinced of this myself very often for many decades. I have also figured out that anyone who thinks or says; ‘wh...
The problems of the rich are more difficult than the problems of the poor because they have already tried and found the emptiness in the solutions that the poor still hope can bring them happiness. The point is to say that although money does sol...
Why people cannot get motivated or why people cannot find anything to do is a common question. I think one reason for some people is because they actually do not want to have anything they love and enjoy to do that they can become attached to. Th...
I have written often about motivation, and having talked to many people, especially young people, who have so many ideas, but they never actually do anything. They are called ADD or lazy or not focused. I have found the ultimate reason is the att...
You lose motivation when you feel hopeless because nothing is working and you think you have tried everything, or you will never meet the right partner. But this is an arrogant attitude that implies you already know everything or every one of the...
Devotion and commitment are the keys to happiness because that equates to submission. You submit to what you are committed and devoted to. Submission is the opposite of resistance. Submission is the opposite of dissatisfaction. As Buddha said; ...
If you find you have perpetual chain of problems in your life, it may be because you need to have problems, not just because you have bad luck. Self Pity is probably the most common negative emotion that everyone has. Everyone has it to some degr...
There will always be people better, smarter, richer than you, and there will be many more poorer, sicker, lonelier and more unhappy than you. What would a staircase be if there were no steps in the middle? Strive to improve yourself and at the s...
Many people speak of how we should all be happy, it is so easy, just be happy, don’t worry. Yet many people find happiness very elusive. Why is it so difficult to find happiness if it is truly our natural birthright? If it were true that it is so ...
I may not be a follower of any religion, but I believe there is wisdom in many teachings, if we use our mind to find it. In this article, we will explore a real life example of how this saying leads to happiness or depression. The ‘devil’ is depr...
The illusive object of desire for everyone despite all the other desires that are expected to bring us the ultimate one is, happiness. This simple article will explain a few step by step points, very simple, yet powerful enough to change your lif...
I had an impacted wisdom tooth pulled many years ago. The pain continued for weeks after the operation. The dentist cut me open again and looked but could not find anything. It took him cutting me open three times until he found a small piece of ...
When anyone asks; "How are you?" I am always well. The secret to always being happy is to have nothing you want to do. This is the essence of the Buddhist teaching that all suffering is caused by desires. The more we desire, the more we ...
Buddha is famous for the saying; “Life is suffering and desires are the cause of suffering.” I have spent my life working on eliminating desires, and of course, it is not possible for a human being to eliminate all desires. We will always have som...
***Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment,*****Buddha** There are three things which rule our lives; desires, fears of all types and, regrets for mistakes, missed opportunities and decisio...
Many people get the feeling that everything in life is just an empty waste of time, totally futile. So much of our time spent on empty interactions, work to make money just to pay taxes and survive, etc. is just a waste of time and effort, given t...
Insecurity, fear, inhibitions, lack of self-confidence and freezing up are some common plagues. Feeling great then all of a sudden feeling down, a spontaneous emotional drop in mood and energy, or any emotional swings without significant cause is ...
We all suffer from a heart that is closed, either a little or a lot, and we spend our life trying to avoid being aware of this, but it is always there in the back of our mind. This article will take the article; “How To Find What You Really Are” a...
Things are not often what they appear and, what they clearly are at the time, is not always what they turn out to be in the future. Often, a wonderful safe and enjoyable childhood leads to difficulties in adult life. While we grow up, our fragmen...
Being alone can be the best or the worst, it depends on if you are empty or full. To be alone and have nothing to do can be a wonderful feeling without any obligations or stresses. But if that space is empty, it soon becomes painful, so we seek a...
Self-mutilation, or other means of self-inflicted pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, are common to everyone. Everyone finds some way to inflict one form of pain or another on themselves, and we all wonder why. One young person told me tha...
The title of this article is a basic principle of Buddhist teachings. The common interpretation is that unfulfilled desires cause pain and suffering. This is very easy to understand, that desires themselves are the cause of suffering and we have t...
Continuing on from Part 1 of this article, the removal of pain brings pleasure and happiness. When you can see that mental pain is 100% in your mind due to your resistance of the state of things as they are, you cease to believe the illusion. At t...
Why must we feel pain and suffering? That is a very good question and the answer is found in being able to see its usefulness. This article will show the reason that pain and suffering exists and how to end it by understanding its purpose for self...
Many people tell me they cannot find any point to life. That is very sad of course, to continue to live just because it is the only alternative to death. Maybe they are right, or maybe not. Even if you have a purpose and see a point, this article ...
We have all been lied to, cheated, tricked and hurt. Sometimes it is just the common result of business, other times it is incompetence or a lack of accepting responsibility, but most of the time it is someone who is either a stranger or at least ...
Do you feel like this; I have no hope for my life, I lost my job and am too old to get another one, I have no money, I cannot find a partner, I am tired, life sucks, I live in a dump and cannot afford a better place to live, my car is an old junk ...
There is a big difference between being bored or depressed, however they appear the same in an adult, and so boredom becomes confused with depression. The longer you are bored, the more you will think and appear to others to be depressed, If it l...
Buddha said that life is suffering and that the cause of suffering is desire. That is a very clear and obvious truth. If I desire something, that means I do not have it, and if I want or need something that I do not have, that craving for it does...
Many people who believe in karma (the law of cause and effect in respect to previous incarnations if you believe in that) have the concept that the negative situations that happen to them are a type of karmic debt. That somehow they deserve whatev...
Scientific studies show that people who feel they have no control over their life are more prone to depression, but people who feel they have control over their life in general are happy and positive. Therefore we can say in a generality that a f...
Many people in Western countries have a very comfortable life with all the necessities that anyone can ask for, yet they are unfulfilled and dissatisfied. The normal course of action is to find a new job or relationship. It does not take long unti...
It is an interesting thing I have noticed, that everyone dreams and wishes to be a certain way, free of negative emotions, free in spirt, open of heart, without pain or fear, and meet someone like that. Yet if they meet someone who possesses those...
The only way to be truly free is to accept your prison, be that in the society or in your own mind. In that acceptance, you have released your resistance. By releasing your resistance, you become free. Negative emotions and resistance is a denial...
Let me tell you what frustrates me. The frustration comes from my own limitation to help people in a certain position, I simply do not know how to get this type of person past the point they are stuck at. This is not to say I do not know how to ...
Depression, which is partly anger at ourselves, is self-destructive and drains our energy to the point that it is sometimes difficult to function even minimally. Depression is an illness of will, which becomes diseased, making a person incapable o...
Law of Attraction - Service & Contemplation Series If you have no useful purpose, your work, job, something that you do that is useful and serving humanity daily, or if you do not find what you do to be a useful service, then you may have a f...
I have often heard people say that they have no more to give, that they have given so much and have nothing left. I do not understand how this is possible. I wonder what it is that they have none left of. If I understood the conversation correctl...
Depression is a rampant disease according to our scientific medical community. Is that an accurate statement, or is it a massive misdiagnosis based on the real problem being too illusive to cure or too “spiritual” for medical science to acknowledg...
