So long may the brethren be expected not to decline, but to prosper.

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So long as the brethren shall exercise themselves in the sevenfold higher wisdom, that is to say, in mental activity, search after truth, energy, joy, peace, earnest contemplation, and equanimity of mind, so long may the brethren be expected not to decline, but to prosper.

Source Mahâparinibbâna Sutta 1.7-8 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to the Mahâparinibbâna Sutta, the Buddha gives his community seven qualities that make it grow instead of decline: mental attention, the search for truth, energy, joy, peace, contemplation and equanimity (an even mind that is not carried away). Today, choose one of these seven qualities and cultivate it consciously, for example by meeting each annoyance with equanimity.

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