“Your kilesas are always attacking you, but most of the time you don’t know it.”

The teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

15 October 2024

“Your kilesas are always attacking you, but most of the time you don’t know it.”

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Layperson: “A few days ago, I had a good meditation. The mind became very quiet, and I felt very good, but the next day when I woke up, I experienced a very bad mood.”

Than Ajahn: “Your mind changes. 

What you achieved from meditation was just a brief result. If you want it to last, you have to do a lot (of meditation). It is like eating. If you only eat one meal, a few hours later you become hungry again. If you want to maintain this fullness, you have to keep on eating.

When you feel bad, why don’t you meditate? 

You have to keep on meditating because your mind keeps on agitating itself. So you need a tranquilizer to calm your mind. 

Meditation is a form of tranquilizer that you can always have. If you buy (another type of) tranquilizer, it has side effects, and sometimes if you cannot have it, you will be in trouble. 

But if you can meditate, you can always calm your mind.

Your kilesas are always attacking you, but most of the time you don’t know it because you always let it do what it wants to do. You only see the trouble when you resist it, when you don’t do what it asks you to do.”

“Dhamma in English, Feb 3, 2015.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

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