36. In the Buddha’s words

Luang Pu once said, “People, as long as they’re run-of-the-mill, have their pride and their opinions. As long as they have pride, it’s hard for them to see in line with one another. When their views aren’t in line with one another, it causes them to keep quarreling and disputing. As for a noble one who has reached the Dhamma, he has nothing to bring him into a quarrel with anyone else. However other people see things, he lets it go as their business. As in one of the Buddha’s sayings,

“Monks, whatever the wise people of the world say exists, I too say exists. And whatever the wise people of the world say doesn’t exist, I too say that it doesn’t exist. I don’t quarrel with the world; the world quarrels with me.”