Food for Thought #49

~ By Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~

As children, our melancholy hardly ever surfaced because we had people looking after us and we were not yet fully grown and able to experience the full force of all our senses. As soon as we are fully developed, melancholia arises more frequently because we are out of balance - the body has developed, but the development of our Dhamma-body has not kept pace with it.

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From “Food for Thought,” Some Teachings of Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu. Translated from the Thai (อาหารใจ) by Grant A. Olson. 

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