Introduction

Buddhadharma: The Practitioners Quarterly published an edited version of this article entitled Finding the Perfect Balance. They have kindly made this available as a downloadable PDF file, which includes photographs.

"Dont be an arahant, dont be a bodhisattva, dont be anything at all – if you are anything at all you will suffer"

Ajahn Chah

A student of Buddhism asked, “Which do you think is the best path: that of the arahant or that of the bodhisattva?”

“That kind of question is asked by people who understand absolutely nothing about Buddhism!”

Ajahn Sumedho