What was acquired, must be protected against loss.
How can there be practices to develop wisdom, generosity, patience, and discipline?
With clear understanding, all these arise as a by-product naturally.
Aesthetics are everywhere. They renounce shelter, work, fine clothing, speech, and lifestyle.
But they are self deluded. True renunciate renounce concepts, ideas, opinions, judgements, hopes, past and future.
When there is indifference to outcomes, one is willing to work with less than ideal means and postponement is avoided.
What problems can there be that the mind does not create?
The solution to problems begins with the cessation in believing in the contents of one’s thoughts.
the greatest wealth is contentment. the greatest happiness is freedom from opinions. the greatest peace is attained through the abandonment of desires.
An event becomes an experience through personal involvement.
Collecting experiences can be pleasurable.
But it is not the road to happiness.
Attachment to the impermanent is the pathway to suffering.