there is no external refuge: be a light unto yourself

image credit: Karina Vorozheeva*

there is no external refuge: be a light unto yourself (!?)

Stephen Batchelor, on the last word spoken by the Buddha:

clearly appamāda, both for the Buddha and for the tradition that immediately followed him, … somehow synthesizes everything he taught (!?)

one interpretation:

appamāda is being awake to what is or seems to be, carefully observing
without evaluating or judging as good or bad, in choiceless awareness* *

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