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Ep. 137 - Quality Of Mind with Gil Fronsdal

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The Buddha and the Courtesan

Once the Buddha was meditating, sitting on the ground in the woods. One of the young men didn't have a wife, brought along a courtesan as his companion. They picniced, proliced in the way that noble people do. And at some point they all took a nap. When they woke up, they found out that all their jewelry had been taken off, them and disappeared. So they set out wandering around, running around the woods, looking for the courtesan to get their jewels back. As they were running around, my image,. they were frazzled, agitated, running this way and that, besides themselves with fury, anger, desire. They came

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