“The root of suffering is attachment.”

If you grew up in the west, most of us believed that desires and attachments would make us happy.

We believed that if we earned enough money, or purchased that new iPhone, that we would be truly happy.

But the joy doesn’t last long, and you’re back in a loop of desiring again. This is what causes us suffering.

To be happy, we need to look inside ourselves. We don’t need to grasp onto things around us in an attempt to find comfort and happiness from them.

True inner peace comes from letting go of those attachments.

The fundamental truths of life are impermanence and interbeing. Therefore, you’ll be better off in life if you’re able to exist in this world without grasping onto things with a sense of dependency.