Thursday, January 23, 2020

Celibacy, privacy and intimacy

When we start to lead a celibate life, we sacrifice and give up intimacy, but we gain privacy and the peace of solitude in return.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Truth and truthfulness

Truth and truthfulness always go together. When the Buddha's first five disciples doubted the Buddha's enlightenment at first, he told them: have I ever claimed enlightenment before in vain? They knew he hadn't. The Buddha's very truthfulness proved that he had now attained the truth and nothing less.