Daily Reading ~ August 26

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association)

Venerable Shravasti Dhammika

The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

As a mongoose approaches a snake to seize it only after having supplied his own body with medicine, so too, the meditator, the earnest student of meditation, on approaching this world abounding as it is in anger and malice, plagued by quarrels, strife, contention and hatred, must anoint his mind with the medicine of love.