The Does It Always Happen?

He hears that he will not find happiness within himself nor find spiritual peace. He believes that not even the love of his parents and best-friend Govinda is enough to suffice him.

For Omri’s birthday he received a small Indian toy from a friend and a small cupboard from his brother. Omri put his Indian in the cupboard and to his surprise when he opened the cupboard the Indian toy had come to life.

There are certain things that are in the control of the humans, at the same time there are several things, which are not under the human’s control. Thus, to persist a happy life, the humans are required to put an end their desire such that the satisfaction of

therefore rebirth. ". . .how is it then, unhappy man, you have left the sunlight

in world centered on happiness in which there is no despair. However, this is not the case when it

not truly live until they find pure, unabashed happiness, no matter the risks. Before I read “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer just mere months ago, I admittedly had a far dissimilar opinion on the mooth’s philosophy. But, as I read through the book, I began to have a change of mind. Throughout my fourteen years on this Earth,  I’ve known and encountered a vast majority of people that have made a routine of life, myself included. We all do the same things over and over again, day after day, hoping that life will walk up to us, take our hands, and lead us straight toward happiness. This rarely, if ever occurs. In reality, we’re left waiting out our lives, wishing and dreaming about something that might present meaning; something that could provide contentment in our lives. We all have a tendency to put off searching for life’s happiness, whether or not we actually recognize it depends on our

Often times the people who look for joy and happiness only find hell. Siddhartha becomes sick of his own life that he almost commits suicide. His relationships with Kamala and Kamaswami have only impacted his life negatively. King Solomon, a very wealthy king in the Bible, said in Ecclesiastes 2:11 “ But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.” The treasure of the world gives a false hope, the only way to satisfy those needs is through the

Evidently, all of the religions in the world have different beliefs. Beliefs are the basis of one’s behaviour. Everything an individual does, traces back to the beliefs they have about the world. Hinduism and Buddhism are two religions that originated from the same nation, India. Both religions share beliefs on different paths to enlightenment, beliefs on reincarnation, and both believe in the spiritual practices of meditation. The purpose of this paper is to further discuss these beliefs, along with their similarities.

joy is lost.? Ultimately, in the event that there is no God, it is Nature

Kamma or karma as it is commonly referred to, has a complex system of cause and effect that makes up the law. All humans experience karma, that is the process of acting with intention, throughout their lives (Jeffreys, 2/18). The result of their intent filled actions, vipaka, is either immediate or it accumulates and transmigrates across lifetimes. Though this may seem simple, the process is a very complex law. Maurice Walshe, the main editor of The Long Discourses of the Buddha helps explain the law of kamma in the “Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta: The Lion’s Roar on the Turning of the Wheel.” This paper will explore the law of kamma in terms of cause and effect as well as differing viewpoints on the law's existence.

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss" (Dumas 531).

“If someone lives a virtuous and morally worthy life, then no matter how advantages or disadvantages come to him (excluding those that are his fault), he will lack nothing needed for true happiness” (Balaam 25).

Many live attempting to decipher the riddle of life. What is life? What is the purpose? What makes? Even though we only seek happiness why can’t we ever seem to achieve it? When we do reach happiness why can’t we seem to grasp it and hold it for more than the few short hours that pass like seconds? The question we must answer first is “What makes happiness, true?”

Just a couple week or before, I was hovering around the streets of Kathmandu and was gyrating around a top of my house with a heavy brain box. Every of those 24 hours of my days used to be spent on finding the meaning of life, death and the reason I am here on this planet. After those rigorous searches inside the book ‘Nirwad, ‘The Alchemist’, and inside my own heart, I finally got the answer.

Following the death of my beloved dog and the trauma that besets any child, the quest to learn more about the afterlife began. While some viewed it as a morbid fascination, I knew that the trajectory of my life had been determined! When loss expressed itself again in the tragic death of a very special friend, in my early twenties, the sheer intensity of my emotions found release in fiery explosions of haikus and cinquains. Gibran, Rumi and Tagore also brought solace to a soul yearning to make sense of it all, in the dying embers of each day