Looking For Love in all the Wrong Places

I have been listening to some wonderful teachings from Lama Sumati Marut recently. Google him if you want. He is marvelous at presenting essential Buddha-Dharma teachings in ways that resonate with my Western deluded mind.

He has distilled the ways that we in the West try to find happiness. He has categorized them into 5 categories:

1) Money and things
2) A Job
3) Relationships
4) Entertainment (including all that stuff from use of drugs to tv and sex)
5) Physical appearance

Each one of these, are going to fail as providing lasting happiness. They can provide temporary satisfaction but will ultimately result as the source of suffering if we try to rely on them for happiness.

Each are impermanent and consequently subject to constant change.

Each one in their own way are more or less our unspoken sources of “Refuge” that we try to take shelter.

So where should we go for refuge?

Oh by the way, once you remove your expectations, we can have everything that we need including lots of everything if that really works for. No one is saying that one must be poor, jobless, without friends, bored, and fat to awaken!

Many Dharma Blessings,

Geoff