

To Be Happy Is to Be Free
One of my favorite mantras or Sanskrit chants is OM MANI PADME HUM. Sanksrit is really a language of emotions and feeling so it doesn't always translate easily. In English these words roughly translate to, "May all beings be happy and may all beings be free." To be truly happy means you are free from suffering. We often think of suffering solely as something that happens under the hands of other people. And while that might be the case for some, for many of us, our worst suf