The Buddha:
“What’s well-spoken
isn’t easy to understand
by one who enjoys contradiction,
who’s defiled in mind,
intent on confrontation.
But whoever has subdued confrontation
& suspicion in his awareness,
who has relinquished hatred:
He will understand
what’s well-said.”
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