“There are only two types of people in the world: those who try to stuff their inner emptiness, and those very rare precious beings who try to see the inner emptiness.
\nThose who try to stuff it remain empty, frustrated. They go on collecting garbage, their whole life is futile and fruitless.
\nOnly the other kind, the very precious people who try to look into their inner emptiness without any desire to stuff it, become meditators.”
\nThank u Nyayprem for sending this to me, and Buddha did not attain enlightenment without years of (and some would say many lifetimes) agonizing and often fruitless battles with his mind. Starvation, denial, extreme yoga all failed, till he just sat and battled the demons thrown at him from his own mind.
\nMind, Mara, Devil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“There are only two types of people in the world: those who try to stuff their inner emptiness, and those very rare precious beings who try to see the inner emptiness. Those who try to stuff it remain empty, frustrated. They go on collecting garbage, their whole life is futile and fruitless. Only the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-search-for-the-self"],"yoast_head":"\n