If your mind becomes quiet and concentrated, it is an important tool to use.
But if you're sitting just to get concentrated so you can feel happy and pleasant, then you're wasting your time.
The practice is to sit and and let your mind become still and concentrated, and then to use that to examine the nature of the mind and body, to see more clearly.
Otherwise, if you make the mind simply quiet, then for that time it's peaceful and there is no defilement.
But this is like taking a slab and covering up a smelly garbage pit. When you take the slab away it's still full of smelly garbage. You must use your concentration, not to temporarily bliss out, but to accurately examine the nature of mind and body. This is what actually frees you.
(Ajahn Chah )
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2 November 2023
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