Good

trouble. As Ajahn Mun’s ‘Ballad of Liberation from
the Five Khandhas’ says:
Wanting what’s good, without stop:
That’s the cause of suffering.
It’s a great fault: the strong fear of bad.
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are poisons to the mind,
like foods that inflame a high fever.
The Dhamma isn’t clear
because of our basic desire for good.
Desire for good, when it’s great,
drags the mind into turbulent thought
until the mind gets inflated with evil,
and all its defilements proliferate.
The greater the error, the more they flourish,
taking one further and further away
from the genuine Dhamma.
(Ven. Thanissaro, trans.)
Also, in the Verses of the Third Zen Patriarch:
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity
your very effort fills you with activity.
(Richard B. Clarke, trans.)

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