' Beyond Suffering '...

"The impulse 'I want' and the impulse 'I'll have' — lose them!

That is where most people get stuck;

without those you can use your eyes to guide you through this suffering state."



Gautama the Buddha
Sutta Nipata, 111.10 (706)
Translated by H, Saddhatissa
London: Routledge Curzon, digital edition 2003 (1985)
quoted in
Andrew Wilson
World Scripture: An Anthology of Sacred Texts
NY: International Religious Foundation, p. 667