The Buddha pointed the way for everyone who came ...
Let practice with us ...
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'Don't gouge or carve too much or you won't have a decent handle.'' You'll be left with nothing and in the end just give up. . Some people are like this. When it comes to walking meditation they really go at it for fifteen days or so. They don't even bother eating, just walk. Then when they finish that they just lie around and sleep. They don't bother considering carefully before they start to practice. In the end nothing suits them. Being a monk doesn't suit them, being a pa-kow doesn't suit them... |
so they end up with nothing. . People like this don't know practice, they don't look into the
reasons for practicing. Think about what you're practicing for. They teach this practice for throwing
off. The mind wants to love this person and hate that person... these things may arise but don't take
them for real. So what are we practicing for? Simply so that we can give up these very things.
Even if you attain peace, throw out the peace. If knowledge arises, throw out the knowledge.
If you know then you know, but if you take that knowing to be your own then you think you know
something. Then you think you are better than others. After a while you can't live anywhere,
wherever you live problems arise. If you practice wrongly it's just as if you didn't practice at all.
. - Ajahn Chah - .
''In the Dead of Night...''
