The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
4 October 2024
"Look at the pain like the weather.”
Monk:
"We all want to let go of painful feeling but it can’t be just an act of will. How do we let go of painful body feeling?"
"We all want to let go of painful feeling but it can’t be just an act of will. How do we let go of painful body feeling?"
Than Ajahn:
"You have to use rationality. Look at the pain like the weather. Leave it alone. Can you tell the sun to disappear? Can you tell the rain to come right now?
"You have to use rationality. Look at the pain like the weather. Leave it alone. Can you tell the sun to disappear? Can you tell the rain to come right now?
You cannot. You just take them as they come. If you have pain, just leave it alone. One way to leave it alone is to focus on something else, like on the mantra or on your breath, so you don’t go engaged with the pain.
This is the first step to deal with the pain, by using mindfulness.
Once you can deal the pain with mindfulness, the next step is to use rationality, use wisdom.
Look at the pain as if you look at the weather.
It’s anattā. It doesn’t belong to you. You cannot control it. You cannot tell it what to do. You cannot tell it to come and go. It comes as it likes. It goes as it likes. The only thing you can do is just to watch it like you watch the weather.
Monk:
"Sometimes we bring umbrella when it rains.”
"Sometimes we bring umbrella when it rains.”
“Sometimes when there is pain, we change our postures. Do you suggest that we shouldn’t change postures, and just watch the pain?"
Than Ajahn:
"Yes. If you change the posture one time, when you get sick, no matter how you change your postures, it won’t disappear, such as if you’ve got cancer and you’ve got pain in your body.
"Yes. If you change the posture one time, when you get sick, no matter how you change your postures, it won’t disappear, such as if you’ve got cancer and you’ve got pain in your body.
Nowadays they try to use medicine and if medicine doesn’t work, then they use the bullet or injection because they could not withstand the pain. This is vibhava-taṇhā. And as long as you still have vibhava-taṇhā, you’ll still have to come back and be born again.
And then, you will face the same problem and solve the problem the same way again. So, you will be stuck within this vicious cycle."
Dhamma for the Asking,
Monks and laypeople from Australia.
Feb 6, 2017
Feb 6, 2017
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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