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Giant Brain Candy: The Second Arrow. An early Buddhist teaching likens pain to being struck by a dart, and the untrained reaction, the sorrow and protest we add on top, to being struck by a second. Source: The parable of the second arrow.
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  1. Bodhi, B. (Trans.). (2000). The connected discourses of the Buddha: A translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya. Wisdom Publications.

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The Second Arrow

An early Buddhist teaching likens pain to being struck by a dart, and the untrained reaction, the sorrow and protest we add on top, to being struck by a second.

Source: The parable of the second arrow · Guiding wisdom

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