The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
“Right exertion is to exert as much as possible until you can exert to the maximum level, 100%.”
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Question: Is it better to do one long meditation for one hour or to do many small meditation during the day?
Than Ajahn: Well, it doesn’t matter. The point is to do as much as possible. Big or small, it’s up to your ability. If you can only sit briefly, then you just sit briefly first. When you stop sitting, you can continue on with walking meditation. You don’t have to always meditate in sitting meditation. You can continue on with your mindfulness when you are not sitting. You get up and walk and maintain mindfulness. Keep controlling your thoughts. Stopping your thoughts. And after you are tired from walking meditation, you can come back and sit to watch your breath again.
The more you do, the further you will advance on your path. It is not how big or how small you do it. It’s up to your ability. Sometimes you can do a big one; sometimes you cannot do a big one and you do a small one. But the point is to keep on doing.
Right exertion is to exert as much as possible until you can exert to the maximum level, 100%. But you cannot start at 100% so you start at 10%. Then, you move up to 20%, 30% and 40%. Eventually, you will be practicing all day long, from the time you get up to the time you go to sleep. That’s when you can become enlightened.
You have to practice all the time because your enemies, your desires, work all the time. They don’t stop working. If you want to get rid of them, you have to get rid of them all the time.
Youtube: “Dhamma in English, Nov 9, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
www.phrasuchart.com
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