Our life is filled with distractions, things that we want and things that we don’t want. These things look so important that we forget about everything until we can have them. This is the source of all pain. Even when we finally get them, we are happy for a moment and then want something else.
In the Upanishads it says, “Neti Neti!” which means “neither this nor that.” We cannot find happiness here nor there. Everything that we think will make us happy creates frustration until we have it, and then disappoints us once we get it. How tragic, but how true!
In many of the posts for this blog we have suggested that happiness is never found on the outside. True happiness is only found on the inside. But we still want to find our hero, that thing that once we have it will bring us happiness. Neti Neti! Not this, not that.
