“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar — this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one’s own mind.”

While we’re tackling one buried treasure after another, here is more ancient wisdom. For as much disdain as we have for the past, the past has a lot to tell us. It’s like on a surface level we realize there were great thinkers, but another part of our brain tells us that we are collectively superior. We’re bigger. We have electricity and planes and the combustible engine. We have bombs. We can talk with people across the globe in real time at any time. But that has nothing to do with our wisdom, our knowledge, or self-knowledge, or our ability to morally reason. This quote has much to tell us.

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