Reading the Dhammapada felt like someone finally put my feelings into words. A single verse shifted something in me—helping me let go of pain I’d carried for years. Here’s what it said.
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Reading the Dhammapada felt like someone finally put my feelings into words. A single verse shifted something in me—helping me let go of pain I’d carried for years. Here’s what it said.
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I found a line in the Dhammapada that hit me right in the chest: “There is no fire like passion, no shark like hatred, no snare like folly.” It made me stop and think—was I trapping myself in suffering by holding on so tightly? Wisdom, according to the teachings, is about seeing clearly—recognizing pain without clinging to it. That was a turning point for me. I stopped trying to “get rid of” the pain and started trying to understand it. That shift didn’t solve everything overnight, but it gave me a new kind of strength: the kind that comes from seeing pain as a teacher, not an enemy.