Enlightenment is the state a Tibetan Buddhist monk may reach after decades of mediation, or a yogi performing esoteric practices in a cave in the Himalayas. Yet if you strip away the Eastern ...

Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment. Getting stuck in a video game can be frustrating—especially when that game is the cycle of suffering.

So you see, reaching enlightenment or slowly getting closer to it is not only incredibly fulfilling for us, but for the world and people around us. Everything we do, we do it to be happy ...