“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections
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