The Importance of Sitting and Walking

There's nobody who has a body where there isn't physical pain. And so for the mind as well, until there's a tremendous degree of detachment, there will be a lot of kinds of mental suffering. The Buddha taught that everything is just that much of equal value. When you get old, your sight becomes dim. Your hearing weakens. Your body becomes feeble. You must face yourself. We human beings are in constant combat at war to escape being just that much.

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