Search results for: middle way

  1. Book search result icon Food for Thought Food for the Mind
     … In the same way, intelligent people who want the inner quality of dispassion have to take the discernment that comes from concentration and use it to evaluate sights, sounds, smells, tastes, etc., so that these things can serve a purpose and not do them any harm. Whoever eats an entire fish—bones, scales, fins, feces, and all—is sure to choke to death on … 
  2. Book search result icon Food for Thought Taking the Long View
     … This way you can be at peace and at ease both within and without. As the Buddha said, ‘Happy is the person content in seclusion.’ When this kind of seclusion arises in the mind, all sorts of worthwhile qualities will come flowing in without stop. The heart will keep growing higher and higher, until it no longer wants anything at all. If you used … 
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