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He who keeps fleeing, flees from his own past.
— Escape
He who keeps fleeing, flees from his own past.
There are these three elements of escape. What three? The escape from sensual desires, that is, renunciation; the escape from form, that is, the formless; and the escape from whatever has come to be, from whatever is conditioned and dependently arisen, that is, cessation. These, bhikkhus, are the three elements of escape.
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.
