Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“You’ve got to pull yourself out of the materialistic environments—the environments that are reinforcing the materialistic values,” he says, because they cripple your internal satisfactions. And then, he says, to make that sustainable, you
...more
“He who has realized the Truth, Nirvāṇa, is the happiest being in the world. He is free from all ‘complexes’ and obsessions, the worries and troubles that torment others. His mental health is perfect. He does not repent the past, nor does he brood over the future. He lives fully in the present.1 Therefore he appreciates and enjoys things in the purest sense without self-projections. He is joyful, exultant, enjoying the pure life, his faculties pleased, free from anxiety, serene and peaceful.2 As he is free from selfish desire, hatred, ignorance, conceit, pride, and all such ‘defilements’, he is pure and gentle, full of universal love, compassion, kindness, sympathy, understanding and tolerance. His service to others is of the purest, for he has no thought of self. He gains nothing, accumulates nothing, not even anything spiritual, because he is free from the illusion of Self, and the ‘thirst’ for becoming.”
― What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
― What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
M’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at M’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,762 books
|
112 friends
306 books
|
180 friends
1,827 books
|
64 friends
1,169 books
|
95 friends
45 books
|
424 friends
1,578 books
|
121 friends
1,344 books
|
85 friends
1,536 books
|
173 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by M
Lists liked by M