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calm abiding, conduct, daily life, distraction, insight, meditation, mind, mindfulness, renunciation, shamatha, Shantideva, solitude, vipassana, wandering
Cultivating diligence as just described,
In concentration I will place my mind.
For those whose minds are slack and wandering
Are caught between the fangs of the afflictions.
In solitude, the mind and body
Are not troubled by distraction.
Therefore leave this worldly life
And totally abandon mental wandering.
Because of loved ones and desire for gain,
We fail to turn away from worldly things.
These then, are the first things to renounce.
The prudent should conduct themselves like this.
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding
Utterly eradicates afflicted states.
Knowing this, first search for calm abiding,
Found by people who are happy to be free from worldly ties.
Shantideva
From the Way of the Bodhisattva
Skt. Bodhicaryāvatāra