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#learnitnow — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. “The #pain in … ordinary life is enough to urge you towards #enlightenment. We can regard all these feelings of hunger or thirst, of restlessness, jealousy or fear, of lust and greed and sleepiness, as teachers. Rather than resenting them and saying, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ … [instead] say: ‘Thank you … I’ll have to learn this lesson some day; I might as well do it now, rather than put it off.”

    Anth Vol 1 #AjahnSumedho #PainAsTeacher #LearnItNow #BeGentle #buddhism #Dhamma