Your Best Friend
Pariyatti
English - January 27, 2024 21:23 - 17.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Health & Fitness vipassana meditation meditate goenka buddha buddhism dharma dhamma tranquility insight Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Your Best Friend: And Other Essays by M. B. Werapitiya.
"To understand ourselves, we must live with ourselves and know all about ourselves. The mind for that matter is flickering, fickle, difficult to guard and control and flutters like a fish taken out of its watery abode and thrown upon the land. Somebody causes you hurt and although the aggressor has disappeared from sight, the hurt grows within you and every so often keeps surfacing with an overpowering intensity to give you a warp. Then again, you see something that has captured your attention and your mind has instantly photographed it from every conceivable angle with a see-through lens, developed it in your mental dark-room, brought out the prints and enlargements with the skill of an expert cameraman and processor rolled into one. Similarly, all the sense faculties and the mind are of high sensitivity and respond to anything and everything exciting. If the degree of excitement is not sufficiently satisfying, you step it up with the use of drugs, intoxicants and poisons. This activity goes on unabated and makes of you a human derelict. A wise person living in his mind protects himself holding himself dear. Such a person whose senses are subdued, whose pride is destroyed and is free from corruptions, is calm of mind, speech and action and rightly knows, and is perfectly peaceful and equipoised."
narrated by Tejendra Patel
2024
38 minutes 45 seconds
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