When one who’s wise does drive away heedlessness by heedfulness, having ascended wisdom’s tower steadfast, one surveys the fools, griefless, views the grieving folk, as mountaineer does those below. -Dhammapada Verse 28 Explanation: The wise person is always mindful. Through this alertness he discards the ways of the slothful. The wise person ascends the tower of wisdom. Once he has attained that height he is capable of surveying the sorrowing masses with sorrowless eyes. Detached and dispassionate he sees these masses like a person atop a mountain peak, surveying the ground below. |