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One Choice: Pleasant Living vs. End of Suffering

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 ~ cafebedouin

“All we have to do is choose between pleasant sense contacts and the end of dukkha. That one choice determines our lives.”

—Ayya Khema, Be an Island, pg. 29.

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