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The Wobbly Wheel of Life
In Buddhism, the first noble truth is that there is suffering. The more of those conditions you have in your own life for happiness, for you to achieve happiness, the more miserable you're going to be. This thing that we're experiencing that we call suffering is not a permanent condition, but one based on a concept of the self that isn't accurate. And so Gom is the name for meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. So let's figure out what the fuck we are to start off with. That finally makes sense to me.