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“Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.” quote by Bhikkhu Bodhi — Download Open image

““Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.””

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“Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.”

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“The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere…

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