Luang Pu Boonsong Thitasaro
Phra [Monks] should not be thick-skinned to tell fortunes and predict the future. Which year will I die…which month, come sit, ask the fortune teller and doo duang. Phra are not [fortune tellers].
Just look at the kilesas [defilements] in one’s heart. If the kilesas are gone, we will be able to see through things clearly. When seeing through things, we don’t boast or display any form of arrogance or conceit. It is not the way of the Phra to become “knowledgeable people”.
The more you know what someone is up to, the more saksit (sacred but also means powerful) you are, the more you have to keep quiet. Because whatever you say out will cause others to become worried and anxious. Why do you want to say it? What is the use?
Actually, it is not really necessary to see. We just need to look at the heart. Look at it all the time. Today, did we cause the heart to soar high? Or how low did the heart fall. How human is it? Or is it at the level of a Deva or Brahma? Or ghost or hungry demon?
When it craves things for no reason it is like a hungry ghost. But any hour our heart sees merit, tamboons and performs good deeds, there is a heart making merit, it will improve and get better. That is the mind of a Thep and Tewada.
Do we have enough morality to maintain our humanity? Or if we fall below even the 5 Precepts, we must be careful. If our morality is lower than the 5 precepts, then we should hurry to add to it to make it full. Depleted, it can be refilled.
Luang Pu Boonsong Thitasaro
Wat Santiwanaram, Chanthaburi
Cr. to the original owner of the photo
24 June 2023
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