Saturday, August 13, 2005

Initiative and discernment

At the time for initiative
he takes no initiative.
Young, strong, but lethargic,
the resolves of his heart
exhausted,
the lazy, lethargic one
loses the path
to discernment.

-Dhammapada 280, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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