Friday, April 14, 2017

Delight, Tragedy, Emancipation


When I was still a bodhisattva it occurred to me:

What is the delight of life?
What is the tragedy of life?
What is the emancipation of life?

Then, monks, it occurred to me:

The happiness and joy that arise conditioned by life, that is the delight of life;
That life is impermanent, dukkha, and changing, that is the tragedy of life;
The removal and abandonment of grasping for life, that is the emancipation of life.

~The Buddha


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