The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
“Once you don’t have any desire, you can take it or leave it.”
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Monk: So, what should we do if the kilesas are too strong?
Than Ajahn: Try to resist it as best as you can, and you should accept that you are still under the influence of the kilesas, and then put your aim at these kilesas. You are going to try to get rid of these kilesas, so you go and find out what are the necessary things to do to get rid of these kilesas.
Usually you either use impermanence (anicca), dukkha, anattā or asubha, depending on your defilements.
If you still have to drink coffee, for instance, you may say: look at the coffee I am drinking.
I am making urine. The coffee I drink, comes out as urine. If you want to free from this addiction, you have to resist it.
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Monk: You mentioned drinking coffee, how do you know that it is a kilesa?
Than Ajahn: When you have the coffee to drink, you don’t feel anything. But when you don’t have the coffee and you still want to have it, then it is a problem. Once you have got rid of the addiction, you can take it or leave it.
It is the same with everything. Once you don’t have any desire, you can take it or leave it.
Even life and death, you can live or you can die. It is the same for the mind that has no desire.
You can live or you can die. It doesn’t matter because you know who dies and who doesn’t die. You know the body dies and you know that the mind doesn’t die.
“Australian Monks from Sydney, Feb 19, 2015”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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