Post #721

An ascetic is one who rules over his heart, not it over him. This is the one who has found the Lord in himself. The awakened one is the one who has thrown off the burden, who has been freed from the bonds, who has spewed storms. Everything, everything that is anatta, everything composite and conditioned - all this does not belong to you, and you should not desire it, on the contrary, you should reject it all, because such a statement is very beneficial. - So renounce what does not belong to you! The Heroic Spirit claims: what should have been done was done. Heroic Aryan detachment from the world is an unshakable decision of a noble soul in response to a samsaric existence. There is a combination of Unshakable CALM, spiritual concentration (to gain the power of action) and clear, noble, insightful KNOWLEDGE.