The Second Arrow | December 22, 2014
Our minds are habituated to relate to suffering by resisting it
through blame, bitterness, anger, resentment. That resistance is what
the Buddha called 'the second arrow,' which follows the first arrow, the
direct experience of pain. So much additional suffering comes from
believing that 'things shouldn’t be this way'—when in fact they are that
way.
- Ronna Kabatznick, "Sea of Sorrow"
- Ronna Kabatznick, "Sea of Sorrow"
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