Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

150 The Arhat IN OUR SOCIETY, We're Inclined To See Doing Nothing As Something Negative, Even Evil. But When We Lose Ourselves In Activities, We Diminish Our Quality Of Being. We Do Ourselves A Disservice. It's Important To Preserve Ourselves, To Maintain Our Freshness And Good Humor, Our Joy And Compassion. In Buddhism We Cultivate Aimlessness, And In Fact In Buddhist Tradition The Ideal Person, An Arhat Or A Bodhisattva, Is A Businessless Person - Someone With Nowhere To Go And Nothing To Do. People Should Learn How To Just Be There, Doing Nothing.

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