Control of the mind, the theme of chapter 3, is the most challenging and the most rewarding of human tasks, and the Buddha does not underestimate its difficulties. The mind, he suggests, has a depth far greater than the deepest sea, and all the way down it churns with emotional tempests of which we are barely conscious, but which virtually dictate thought and behavior.
---Eknath Easwaran, in his commentary on chapter 3 of The Dhammapada---
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