“Buddha advised his son Rahula: "Make disgust strong in you."… When the disciple sees the constituents of body and mind as impermanent, suffering and not self, he becomes disgusted with them; through his disgust he becomes dispassionate, and through dispassion he is liberated.”

Source: The Vision of Dhamma (1994), pp. 30-31

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