Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/25/2018
Life is hard for an unrestrained ascetic; they should draw in their thoughts like a tortoise.“Hard to do, hard to endure, is the ascetic life for the inept, for it has many narrow passes where the fool founders.” “How many days could an ascetic live without controlling the mind? They’d founder with each step, under the sway of thoughts. A mendicant should collect their thoughts as a tortoise draws its limbs into its shell.
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