Happiness or sorrow--
Whatever befalls you,
Walk on
Untouched, Unattached.
The Dhammapada of Gautama The Buddha CA 500BC
If happiness comes, don't become too excited;
if sorrow comes, don't become too depressed.
Take things easily. Happiness and sorrow are separate
from you; remain unidentified...as if they are not
happening to you, but happening to somebody else.
Just try this small device, it is a valuable recipe; as if
maybe to a charachter in a novel or in a movie, and you
are just an onlooker. Yes, unhappiness is there,
happiness is there, but it is there , and you are here.
Don't become identified, don't say, "I am unhappy,"
simply say, "I am the watcher. Unhappiness is there,
happiness is there -- I am simply the watcher." Get
more and more rooted into watching -- that's what
Buddha calls vipassana, insight. Just see with inner eyes
whatsoever happens, and remain untouched, unattached.
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