“If your mind is truly free or empty, then there won't be any greed, hatred, and delusion.”

The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.

1st September, 2022

“If your mind is truly free or empty, then there won't be any greed, hatred, and delusion.”

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Question : How should I further my practice after having attained a mental state of voidness?

Phra Ajahn : You have to try to maintain that state of voidness at all times—to be free of greed, hatred, and delusion. It's not good enough if you still have some greed, anger, and delusion. 

You just have to continuously maintain that voidness. 

If your mind is truly free or empty, then there won't be any greed, hatred, and delusion. If it's not truly free—temporarily empty—it will revert back to greed, anger, and delusion as soon as you're not being mindful. 

To permanently keep your mind clear, you have to resort to your wisdom faculty (pañña). That is, to rid yourself of any delusion, which is the root cause of greed, hatred, and delusion. 

Impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and non-self (anatta) are what will cure your greed, anger, and delusion: to discern that everything is impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not self. This is so that any situations you come across will no longer give rise to any greed, hatred, and delusion.

“Essential Teachings.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

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