In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
how do i do that though?
If it is something you can change… Try. It may not work and wanting it to work may hurt you should it fail to change, but you got to try.
If it’s something you can not hope to change try to relieve yourself of worrying about it.
This is actual Buddhism and not the white yuppy idea of sitting in a nice garden and emptying your brain of thinking about stuff.
You should try to empty your head a bit. Focus on what is in front of you currently but you will always have some suffering. You may want food but not have anything to eat. You can try to ask for it, or make some, or think that food is unnecessary as ways to appease that suffering but you may just end up hungry at which point you must try not to lament on it. Things will not always be true, not even life.
The trick is to be content with living. And live the moments that are happy and not try to hold on to tightly should they leave.
Well you won’t find happiness in Buddhism. That’s not that it’s not worthwhile or a good religion, it’s a great religion, it just isn’t selling happiness. It’s hawking inner peace, and the price is adherence to the eightfold path in an attempt to live a life of neither excess nor self deprivation so that you may stop the suffering caused by desiring transient things like happiness.