While reading some texts, I came across the writings of the Buddha and feel worth sharing his thoughts, as nowadays many are seeking happiness only in the material things.
The enlightened one, Siddhartha also known as Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who left the comforts of his home when he was 29, in search of knowledge and to find the true meaning of life. After wandering for several years, meeting and holding discussions, he chose to find his path to realization, and meditated under a peepal tree at Bodh Gaya in Bihar, where he’s said to have attained enlightenment!
As he realized that every living being be it a animal, a bird, or human has the same basic need i.e. to be happy, and this has remained the same since the beginning of time. And since then we are only trying to change things around us instead of changing things within us!. He taught that life is full of suffering and unhappiness as we have cravings and desires (which are often unfulfilled), and we are not satisfied even we get what we want, and described this as tanha or thrist. As he says:
“For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain. There is only sorrow.”
He prescribed that this craving could be removed by following moderation in everything. Simultaneously he didn’t ask his followers to listen to him blindly rather encouraged people to think for themselves instead of simply accepting. I personally liked what he said on the caste divide in the society that:
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
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