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Saturday, July 1, 2023

Dhammapada 322, 323


Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephants with large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still. 

For with these animals does no man reach the untrodden country of Nirvana, where a tamed man goes on a tamed animal, namely on his own well-tamed self. 

IMAGE: Festus and Ruth, from Gunsmoke. A good man with a good mule. 




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