Balanced Existence

Often it can be difficult to see how spiritual views and pursuits that aim towards states of peace, joy, love, happiness and compassion can be reconciled with the very dark and heavy bombardment one gets from the news of terrible things that occur daily around the world.

It may interest you to know that Buddhism contains a formulation of the root cause of all suffering in the world. The idea being that if you know what the root cause of suffering is that root can be removed and all suffering averted. The root cause is known in Buddhism as the Three Poisons (doshas). The three poisons are greed (raga), hatred (dvesa) and delusion (moha). These three poisons are seen as three fundamental aspects of selfish craving causing suffering.