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Nothing is Enough // Or everything is not enough. // I have a hunger... //// The hunger is me. // If I feed it, it wants more. // Mostly, it wants something else. //// A wise person, said STOP. //

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

SHORTY: the 8 wordly winds

The sutta on the 8 wordly winds starts with a question. A person asked the Buddha if he was subject to pleasures and pains in the outside world? Gain and loss? Fame and disrepute? Praise and blame?

I remember the first time I heard the story, i thought for sure the Buddha rose above all this.

But no. All people experience those same 8 winds. The difference is that Buddhas and Arahants are no longer blown around by them.


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