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‘Of those who always keep awake,
Learning day and night,
Upon Nibbāna intent,
“Intoxicants” come to an end.’

Nibbāna = Non-attachment

‘Be quick in goodness;
From wrong hold back your thought.
Indeed, of one performing the good tardily,
the mind delights in wrong.’

‘Everywhere, indeed, good persons “let go”.
The good ones do not occasion talk, hankering for pleasure.
Touched now by ease and now by misery,
The wise manifest no high and low.’

‘Even as a bee, having taken up nectar
From a flower, flies away,
Not harming its colour and fragrance,
So may a sage wander through a village.’

‘As rain penetrates
The poorly thatched dwelling,
So passion penetrates
The untended mind.’

One evening, as the Buddha sat beneath the Bodhi tree, surrounded by his disciples, he noticed that several of them had grown weary from the long journey. They questioned whether the path to enlightenment ever truly ended, and whether there was a point at which one could finally rest. The Buddha remained silent for a moment, ga. Then he spoke:

“Horses don’t stop. They keep going.” 😭😭😭

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