He traveled into the forest and met a group of 'renouncers' who taught that humans are reborn into the world over and over, to suffer again and again. The only way out of this cycle was to embrace their practices of extreme fasting, meditation and prayer. After nearly starving himself to...
grief, or fear). When our mind depends on external things for happiness, its experience of happiness will be unreliable, impermanent—just like external causes are. It has been rightly coined as “stock market happiness”. Since suffering is a ...