4/ To establish the balance of opposites, the middle way, Buddha needed to go in the opposite direction in the exact same proportion.
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15/ Pay more attention to the words and the thoughts that produce discomfort within you: they are opportunities for insight and for growth.
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16/ Stay with what produces conflict within you and don't seek refuge on the surface, through rationalizing or indulging the senses.
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17/ True understanding produces balance, and a balanced individual is a mature individual: one who knows, and therefore is, oneself.
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18/ The perpetual adolescent is one-sided, stubbornly clinging to the familiar (observe how the words relate so perfectly—not a coincidence)
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19/ Remember that balance is order and order produces growth; but balance only comes when conflict is addressed and resolved. Again & again.
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20/ Meaning is nothing more than how you navigate chaos and order, depth and surface. Too much of either and existence becomes meaningless.
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