What’s Really Holding You Back from Happiness

Sometimes you’re out with friends or on a dinner date, and want to be fully, authentically there. But you can’t. Mentally you’re checked out, thinking about that person that angered you earlier, or that new outfit you want to go home and buy, and you’re blindly ignoring right is what in front of you. When that happens, you’re trapped by (at least) one of the three poisonous emotions according to Buddhism:

• passion
• anger or
• ignorance