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His final words to us are an admonishment to practice. | His final words to us are an admonishment to practice. | ||
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The Buddha is often likened to a doctor and the Dharma to medicine. Here, Śāntideva likens our condition to that of a patient who has been prescribed a curative medicine by a physician. Who, he asks us, having consulted with a doctor and been prescribed an appropriate medicine for their specific disease, would not then take the actual medicine? We may have been given guidance about following a particular diet or avoiding certain unhealthy foods or habits, but if we fail to follow the doctor's advice how can we ever hope to be cured? | The Buddha is often likened to a doctor and the Dharma to medicine. Here, Śāntideva likens our condition to that of a patient who has been prescribed a curative medicine by a physician. Who, he asks us, having consulted with a doctor and been prescribed an appropriate medicine for their specific disease, would not then take the actual medicine? We may have been given guidance about following a particular diet or avoiding certain unhealthy foods or habits, but if we fail to follow the doctor's advice, how can we ever hope to be cured? | ||
In this last verse Śāntideva summarizes the chapter, saying that we need to develop the conscientiousness which is aware of the preciousness of a human life endowed with the freedoms and endowments and the conscientiousness which is aware of what is to be abandoned, the mental afflictions. | In this last verse Śāntideva summarizes the chapter, saying that we need to develop the conscientiousness which is aware of the preciousness of a human life endowed with the freedoms and endowments and the conscientiousness which is aware of what is to be abandoned, the mental afflictions. | ||
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