The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
10 April 2024
“The Buddha said, ‘Everything is like bubbles.’ It comes and goes. Everything is fleeting and transient.”
Insight or vipassanā will tell you that everything that you think is good for you is actually bad for you. So, once you see that everything you desire is bad for you, you will stop desiring for them. Why are they bad for you? It’s because they are impermanent; they are temporary.
They might be good for you briefly but after a while things will change. Things that make you happy can turn out to make you unhappy.
So, everything is like that. Everything will change or disappear. You may get happiness from getting what you want and once you’ve got it, that good feeling will disappear in a few days.
What you have doesn’t mean anything to you anymore. You got to have something more, something better.
If you have vipassanā or insight, you’ll see that everything is temporary. They are like a mirage.
They seem real but when you have them, they don’t seem to be like what you think before you have them.
Before you have them, you think they are everything. But once you have them, you say, ‘It’s no big deal.’
So, it’s your mind that conjure up images of thing to make them look great (makes them have the picture, the greatness of things). But in fact, everything is not that great.”
The Buddha said, ‘Everything is like bubbles.’ It comes and goes. You cannot hold on to anything for long. Everything is fleeting and transient. You can see thing but you cannot control it. You cannot tell it to be like this all the time. Some days when you have good feeling, you will say, ‘Oh! I want to have this good feeling all the time.’ But you cannot do that. Sooner or later, it will evolve into something else.
If you have this insight that see the (true) nature of things around you, then you can see that the things that you desire for are not really that good. In fact, they will make you sad and hurt you one day because they will change or disappear. So, it’s better not to have them. It’s better to go back to your samādhi.
Once you’ve got rid of your desire, then there will be nothing to disturb your samādhi, your peace of mind. Then your samādhi (calm) will be continuous without having to enter into samādhi. You can be sitting normally like this and your mind can be peaceful and calm as if you’re in samādhi. That’s what Lord Buddha called, ‘Nibbāna,’ the permanent state of calm.
Regardless of what happens, the mind is not being affected because the mind does not have any desire for anything. The mind has gotten rid of the desire for the body.
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
Youtube: Dhamma in English
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi_BnRZmNgECsJGS31F495g
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