Look At The Cause, Not The Effect

Treating the effect will not change the cause. This is how we’re trapped in ignorance, and why we are in the state we’re in. We feel unhappy so we try to make ourself feel better, never realising what it is that makes us unhappy, uneasy, unfulfilled in the first place.

When we don’t know what we are but believe that we know, we try and make something out of our selves. This is the samsaric trap we are in; like everyone else, we’re trying to appear better than we are. It’s intellectual consumerism – the pride of being ‘in the know’.

The cause of suffering is a belief in a self-idea; hanging on to this is a powerful force of fixation. 
This world is built on people not being satisfied … and staying that way.