Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
9 March 2024“Everyone in this world searches for happiness according to each individual’s mental capacity—wisdom.”
Everyone in this world searches for happiness according to each individual’s mental capacity—wisdom. Those with the lowest capacity are the ones with vices, who drink, club, and gamble. They are the ones who hang out with bad companions––those who are lazy and who seek happiness by causing other people trouble.
Those with higher capacities are humans and angels (devas). They seek happiness from making merit and giving and keeping precepts— a higher level of happiness.
Those who seek an even higher form of happiness can discern the drawbacks of physical and sensual pleasures (kāma-sukha).
They realise that sensual pleasures are bound to suffering. For instance, having a partner may seem to be fulfilling in the beginning, but it can turn into suffering once your partner dies or after breaking up.
Those with wisdom will notice that there should be a kind of happiness that does not depend on other things or people. So they learn from, and search for it, through sages. They find out that such a happiness comes from peace of mind. And so they focus on cultivation through restraints while practising in the wilderness, monasteries, and meditation centres. This is in order to restrain their eyes, ears, noses, tongues, and bodies from coming into contact with, and seeking pleasures from forms, sounds, odour, tastes, and touch.
By Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto
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