Posted by: Michael Rickicki | 12/18/2020

No Elation or Depression

The good renounce (attachment for) everything.

The virtuous do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures.

The wise show no elation or depression

when touched by happiness or sorrow.

Dhammapada 6.83


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