CONTENT WHEN UNDERSTANDING
Solitude is happiness for one, who is content,
Who
sees
and clearly understands
this Dhamma.
Harmlessness is happiness in all worlds,
Kindness towards all living beings.
:-)
Udana 10
IDEAL SOLITUDE
Avoid going along with fools. Should one fail to find
any one,
who is better or equal as a good companion,
then one should continue this journey all alone.
Since there can be no friendship with fools...
Dhammapada Illustration 61
Background Story 61
SWEET
and NOT LONELY at all :-)
The one who has tasted the sweetness of solitude
in cooled calm, such one fears not, and wrongdo not,
since so indeed is the sweet joy of
this true Dhamma!
Dhammapada Illustration 205
Background Story 205
SOLITUDE as NECESSITY:
If one cannot find a clever companion, upright, straight and determined,
then walk alone like a king leaving his kingdom, and like an Elephant freely
roaming in all of the fine forest...
Dhammapada Illustration 329
Background Story 328-330
SOLITARY FREEDOM
Life in solitude is better than friendship with the fool.
Let the one live alone, acting only right, freed from greed,
Like the Bull Elephant freely roam in all
of the forest.
Dhammapada Illustration 330
Background Story 328-330
THE MASTER
Mastering the hands. Mastering the feet.
Mastering the speech. Mastering the thoughts.
Highest Master of Mind, concentrated and composed,
Calm and
quite content in sweet secluded solitude,
Such one is indeed rightly called a Bhikkhu ...
Dhammapada Illustration 362
Background Story 362
