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The Buddha’s image is of a cook who provides different kinds of food to his client—or in the case of the Buddha’s image, it’s a cook working for a prince or a king or a king’s minister. He supplies different kinds of food and see what kinds of food his master likes to eat, which ones he reaches for, which ones he praises, which ones he takes a lot of. Then tomorrow he supplies more of those kinds of food, and as a result the cook gets rewarded.

In the same way, you watch your mind and see what it likes, see what it doesn’t like. Once you notice that it likes a particular kind of breathing—it finds it easy to stay with that kind of breathing, or likes focusing on a particular part of the body—let it stay there. Give it that kind of breathing. That way, it really can stay there for long periods of time.

☸️ True revolution doesn’t begin in society — it begins in the mind.
The Buddha did not wage war against social systems or external structures. Instead, he pointed directly at the roots of suffering: greed, aversion, and delusion. That inner work is the revolution that still matters today.

💡 “There’s nothing more beneficial than straightening out your own mind.”
This teaching is a reminder of your own power — the power to change, to cultivate clarity, and to take responsibility for what truly shapes your life and the world around you.

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