The Pain of Suffering

Why is there suffering?  Why is life so hard that suffering is always looming in the background?  Will suffering make me a better person?  Is suffering a vital part of my life?  Can it end, or am I destined to languish in it's wake?  In order to answer these questions, one must ask what suffering is.  One must understand it, to make sense of it.

Navigating through the Journey

So you've chosen the Path of Knowledge, you have chosen the most direct path, the quickest.  Now what to do? What will I find?  Where will I go?

I think therefore,, I do?

Our minds are very busy things, there are a dozen or so thoughts a minute, and these thoughts vary - some pleasant while others not so, it's so frequent that we do not even remember everything we think of.  We tend to remember those we deem important, those thoughts that has some impact on us.  Other thoughts, and there are a lot of them, fall on the way side.

Truth: A Choice or a Fact

The relevance of truth,,, let that marinate,,, think about it.  What is an absolute truth that you know?  Are you certain of it?


In this life we value the currency of truth and base our journeys and judgments from it. Our societies teach us to hold truth above all else, we have been indoctrinated since childhood that truth is our guiding light.  Also from truth do we get our views on right and wrong. But what is the truth?

Rinse and Repeat

Doesn't it seem like particular things happen over and over?  Usually this cycle it seems like, is something that is troublesome, feels like old rotten furniture thrown away that miraculously makes it's way back to your door.  You wonder why it's back and wince, getting a familiar vibe from it that you might not be fond of.  And now you have to deal with it again, either you have a band aid solution for it; pretend that it isn't happening; or once and for all look at it and figure out what it is, and solve it.

Thoughts about Love

Nothing in life is reliable, what does this mean?


Things never last, everything has an end -- may it be your debt when you've paid it off or not pay; schooling - we graduate; a song - a last note is heard; a film, the day, the month, the year, relationships, and life itself.  This is the way things have always been, we have never experienced anything opposed to this.

What's for Breakfast? How bout Freedom??

Everyone wants to be free,,, man has from the beginning of time fought for it, yearned for it and would die for it.  But what is freedom? And why do we struggle so much to achieve it?  We have been taught that in order to obtain freedom, we have to suffer a great deal first, but do we really have to?

Freedom is being able to do what we want, no limitations or repercussions.  No responsibilities to tie us, nobody telling us what to do, no guidelines to follow and hence no rules.