“Attempts at eliminating the mind’s main defilements—greed, hate and delusion—must fail as long as these defilements find refuge and support in the uncontrolled dim regions of the mind.”

— Nyanaponika Thera

Source: The Vision of Dhamma (1994), p. 76

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