The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
19 July 2024
"Good feeling, leave it alone. Bad feeling, leave it alone."
Question from Sydney, Australia: “Do you recommend moving the attention throughout the body to feel sensations when meditating?”
Than Ajahn: “No, when you’re meditating for calm, you need to stay with one object. Normally, we use the breath (ānāpānasati).
Keep focusing the mind on one point where the air contacts the body. Just stay on that point.
Don’t follow the air in or out. Just stay at the point of contact. This will bring the mind to become still, peaceful and happy.
As far as sensations, this is the development of wisdom which you do after you come out of meditation.
When you start to have painful feeling and you are not happy with it, then you’ll have to teach your mind that this painful feeling is part of the feelings which come and go.
There are three types of feelings: good feeling, bad feeling and neutral feeling. You cannot control them.
They are beyond your control. If you want to get rid of your bad feeling, you’re causing your mind to become unhappy.
So, if you don’t want your mind to become unhappy, then you’ll have to leave feelings alone. Good feeling, leave it alone. Bad feeling, leave it alone. Just be aware that they come and go on their own. You don’t have to do anything. Then, you will be always peaceful and calm, and not be affected by the coming and going of the changing of the feelings.”
“Dhamma in English, Q&A session, Aug 15, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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