The teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
When we meditate to improve our well-being, is there any higher purpose to the meditation? If there is, what is it?
Tan Ajahn: The well-being that you are referring to is the well-being of the body and the well-being of the mind.
Well-being of the body is, like I said, temporary, it is not permanent. What you want to have is well-being of the mind.
The mind that is always peaceful and happy, having no stress, realizing the cessation of all forms of stress or suffering and the end of all rebirths. This is the goal of Buddhist meditation. Because if you still have to be reborn, then you still have to get old, get sick and die.
So the Buddha said the goal is not to be reborn.
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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