The Power of Renunciation

There's one verse in the Dhammapada which says, if by giving up a lesser happiness, a greater happiness can be found. A wise person would renounce the lesser for the sake of the greater. So we want to see this in our experience. It's not enough just to kind of hear this and kind of intellectually, yeah, that sounds right. For to have a transforming value and impact, we need to see it. We need to see how this is happening and it's not hard. We just need to pay attention."