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Breaking Free from the Rat Race: Redefining True Wealth and Well-Being Beyond Money
Oftentimes in our era, people are chasing money. For the means of survival, for the means of satisfaction, for the means of social status. The race for money is like a rat race. An endless, meaningless, pointless, relentless pursuit. We humans have done this endlessly for centuries without realising what money truly is. The engulfment…
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Cultivating Inner Peace: Living Free from Hostility and Misery
“How very happily we live, free from hostility among those who are hostile. Among hostile people, free from hostility we dwell. How very happily we live, free from misery among those who are miserable. Among miserable people, free from misery we dwell. How very happily we live, free from busyness among those who are busy.…
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Cultivating Qualities of the Enlightened | Reflection and Discussion
“Whose conquest can’t be undone, whose conquest no one in the world can reach; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead him astray? In whom there’s no craving—the sticky ensnarer—to lead him anywhere at all; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead him astray? They, the enlightened,…
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Transcending Illusions: Embracing Impermanence and Detachment
“Don’t associate with lowly qualities. Don’t consort with heedlessness. Don’t associate with wrong views. Don’t busy yourself with the world. Get up! Don’t be heedless. Live the Dhamma well. One who lives the Dhamma sleeps with ease in this world and the next. Live the Dhamma well. Don’t live it badly. One who lives the…
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Buddhist Self-Awareness: Nurturing Vigilance and Integrity for Personal Growth
“If you hold yourself dear, then guard, guard yourself well. The wise person would stay awake, nursing himself in any of the three watches of the night, the three stages of life. First, he’d settle himself in what is correct, only then teach others. He wouldn’t stain his name: he is wise. If you’d mold…
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