Anyone who’s been on this earth for any length of time at all knows that trials and tragedies aplenty, afflictions and adversity galore, and all the anxiety, disappointment, grief, and other forms of mental distress that our personal portion of life’s cruelty gives rise to are a fundamental, chronic and universal aspect of our human condition, and the condition of all living things. In other words, as the Buddhists say, life is sorrow. And all self-aware beings capable of reflecting on this fact desire to understand such a woeful existential state of affairs, and long for an effective solution to the indigenous-in-the-world problem of suffering. This of course is all a given.

We can all agree that it’s a poignantly self-evident truth that all men and women suffer and yearnfully dream of getting to a suffering-free place in their lives. Unfortunately today, in our overtly and overly materialistic culture, many of us erroneously think that we can reach such a blissful mode of being merely by achieving economic security and success, by accumulating a lot of money and possessions. Many people, robotically following their cultural programming, just keep plugging away at trying to attain or hold on to a degree of affluence, even though this only seems to multiply their cares and worries.

John and Jane Q. Public have completely and credulously bought into the whopping big lie of our crass consumer society, that the meaning of life and happiness is owning the latest iPhone model, the most coveted luxury car, the priciest widescreen TV, the trendiest designer outfits, etc. None of this ever really brings us the deep, lasting, and truly satisfying kind of joy we hope and pine for, but sad to say nowadays many of us apparently can’t think of any other way to engage in the pursuit of happiness.

Of course the cruel irony is that not only does a life devoted to getting and having material stuff not increase our contentment and emotional well-being, it seriously undermines it. Our hankering after material things and riches makes it difficult for us to ever rest satisfied with and be thoroughly grateful for what we have, it keeps us in an innerly disquieted state of always wanting something else or more.

Then there’s also the rub that investing all our happiness in our worldly belongings and assets is a highly risky proposition, that it just sets us up for the pain of loss when a downturn in the economy or a stroke of bad luck takes away some of the goodies we’ve grown attached to. And even while we continue to sit pretty we feel a good bit of angst about the prospect of one day losing what prosperity we’ve been able to precariously eke out for ourselves. No, money most definitely doesn’t buy adequate peace of mind.

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The mind needs liberation from you and you need liberation from the mind, it’s that simple. When you realize who you are, you no longer depend on the mind’s limited intelligence and this liberates the mind from the responsibility of living this life. There is an influx of inner peace and happiness when you no longer believe the fearful thoughts generated by the mind, but you won’t be able to do that unless you realize the truth of your being. Know who you are and then dwell in the truth of your realization, this alone will liberate you and bring you back to your nature state of being – pure joy, love and peace.

Almost everyone would like answers to some of the really tough questions life makes us ask.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Why do people die when they are still needed?

Why is there suffering in the world?