Friday, January 6, 2017

Peace


The Buddha usually describes peaceful people not by what they do, but by what they don't do. They don't crave or cling to anything. They aren't angry, fearful, or greedy. They're not concerned with sensual pleasures. They're not attached to views or doctrines. They aren't owned by or dependent on things.

Peace is present when clinging and craving is absent.

This depiction of peace doesn't rely on doctrines, beliefs, attainments, or metaphysical realms. 


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