The discourses included in this booklet were translated from talks the author gave to groups of lay disciples in the Burmese countryside.
The master hammers home the point that the only worthy aim of human life is the attainment of Nibbana by practice of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Buddha, Dhp 276
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