How wonderful a thing is it, and how marvellous, that those who have gone forth out of the world should pass their time in a state of mind so calm!

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Then thought that man: “How wonderful a thing is it, and how marvellous, that those who have gone forth out of the world should pass their time in a state of mind so calm! So much so that a man though being both conscious and awake, neither sees, nor hears the sound of five hundred carts passing by, one after the other, and each close to him.”

Source Mahâparinibbâna Sutta 4.35-36 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, a traveller marvels at a sage so deeply recollected that he neither saw nor heard five hundred carts passing close by him. Today, in the midst of noise (traffic, conversations, screens), choose a moment to stay calm within, letting what passes go by without clinging to it.

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