When something has come to be, we have to acknowledge its presence and look deeply into it to discover the kinds of nourishment that have helped it come to be and continue to feed it. Nothing can live without food; whether it’s our love, our hate, our thinking, our depression—it can’t continue without nourishment. It’s important that we can identify what we’ve been ingesting that has fed and sustained our happiness and our suffering. There are four kinds of nutriments that can bring about our happiness or suffering: edible food, sense impressions, volition, and consciousness. When we are able to identify our suffering and see its causes, we will have more peace and joy, and we are already on the path to liberation.