The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
20 May 2024“Your body is constantly subject to changes from the moment you were born to this very moment. It will also continue to change until the end of your life.”
When your mind is getting very calm, you should then work on developing wisdom (paññā). You should contemplate your body and all sorts of things that make you suffer. You should try to address them through contemplation, and you’ll see that delusions are what make you attached to things. When there’s an attachment, then there is suffering due to the uncontrollable nature of things— not always going your way nor meeting your expectations and desires.
Everything is subject to change. But we often want things to remain as they are. All the good things should remain the way they are, which is not possible. Your body is constantly subject to changes from the moment you were born to this very moment. It will also continue to change until the end of your life.
If you keep reflecting on this, it will make you less attached to your body and more able to accept the reality. Your mind will be at ease and able to separate from your body. It will be able to discern that your body is not your mind, and that your mind is not your body. It is a misapprehension to think that your body is you and that it belongs to you. When in reality, it belongs to nature, just like the trees and leaves.
Your body is just like the trees and leaves. If you happen to like or grow fond of it, you’ll then get upset when something happens to it. Why is it so? It’s because you’re attached to it. If there’s no attachment, you won’t feel anything when something happens to it.
So the problem lies in your attachment. You have to accept the reality: you can’t hold onto anything in this world and any attachment will only and readily make you suffer.
By Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto
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