Thought of the day

fleeting are desires and yet we aspire ~
consign them all to the funeral fire
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February 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
whoa... that's a bit flammable, Seeker. lol
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February 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Looking in rather than being entangled in the web.
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February 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
hahaha ~ yet, a standard Buddhist practice asks us to introspect, ‘to whom do these thoughts or desires come … to body-mind, which I am not’ and thus in observer stance we become free from the web of fears we have ourselves created.
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