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Speaker 1: Equal mindedness. To be equally minded is to be peacefully minded.

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For a man cannot be said to have arrived at

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peace who allows his mind to be disturbed and thrown

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off the balance by occurrences. The man of wisdom is dispassionate,

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and meets all things with the calmness of a mind

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in repose and free from prejudice. He is not a partisan,

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but having put away passion, and is always at peace

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with himself in the world, not taking sides nor defending himself,

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but sympathizing withal. The partisan is so convinced that his

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own opinion and his own side is right, and that

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all goes contrary to them is wrong, that he cannot

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think there is any good in the other opinion and

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the other side. He lives in a continual fever of

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attack and defense, and has no knowledge of the quiet

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peace of an equal mind. The equal minded man watches

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himself in order to check and overcome even the appearance

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of passion and prejudice in his mind, and by so

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doing he develops sympathy for others and comes to understand

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their position and particular state of mind. And as he

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comes to understand others, he perceives the folly of condemning

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them and opposing himself to them. Thus there grows up

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in his heart a divine charity which cannot be limited,

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but which is extended to all things that live and

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strive and suffer. When a man is under the sway

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of passion and prejudice, he is spiritually blind, seeing nothing

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but good in his own side and nothing but evil

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in another. He cannot see anything as it really is,

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not even his own side, And not understanding himself, he

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cannot understand the hearts of others, and thinks it is

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right that he should condemn them. Thus there grows up

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in his heart a dark hatred for those who refuse

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to see him, and who condemn him. In return, he

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becomes separated from his fellow man, and confines himself to

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a narrow torture chamber of his own making. Sweet and

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peaceful are the days of the equal minded man, fruitful

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in good and rich in manifold blessings. Guided by wisdom,

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he avoids those pathways which lead down to hatred and

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sorrow and pain, and takes those which lead up to

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love and peace and bliss. The occurrences of life do

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not trouble him, nor does he grieve over those things

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which are regarded by mankind as grievous, but which must

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befall all men in the ordinary course of nature. He

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is neither elated by success nor cast down by failure.

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He sees the events of his life arranged in their

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proper proportions, and can find no room for selfish wishes

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or vain regrets, for vain anticipations and childish disappointments, and

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us his equal mindedness, This blessed state of mind and life,

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acquired only by overcoming one's self, only by purifying one's

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own heart. For the purification of the heart leads to

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unbiased comprehension. Unbiased comprehension leads to equal mindedness. An equal

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mindedness leads to peace. The impure man is swept helplessly

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away on the waves of passion. The pure man guides

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himself into the harbor of rest. The fool says, I

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have an opinion. The wise man goes about his business,