"Don't wait to die"

The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

20 February 2026

"Don't wait to die"

Try to force your mind to come to the Dhamma as much as possible. Don't let it flow with your emotions.

If you want to come, come. If you don't want to come, don't come. 

If you want to sit, sit. If you don't want to sit, don't ... do this, you won't get anywhere. You have to know that you have to sit. Our duty is to meditate, contemplate the Dhamma, observe the precepts, make merit, give alms. 

It's our duty. We have to do it every day. We have to do one thing at a time. We can do it every day, every time, such as developing mindfulness. We can develop it all the time. 

Let the mind be in the present. Don't think about things in the past or the future. Just stay in the present. That's considered as practicing meditation. It's a way of controlling the mind. If you can control your mind to think in the way that the Buddha taught us to think, all defilements will die. 

When all defilements die, there will be no suffering to bother or disturb the mind. You will live in supreme bliss all the time.

You don't have to wait to die to reach Nirvana. Nirvana is the end of all suffering. 

The cessation of all defilements is not extinguished at the time of death. It is extinguished before death. The Buddhas and Arahants were enlightened before death. 

They were not enlightened after death. Even if they were bitten by a tiger, they attained it before death. 

They did not attain it after death. Don't think that you will attain it after death. You will practice. You have to practice from today. The more you practice, the faster you will achieve it. If you keep procrastinating, work will be waiting for you. 

Every time you look back, you will see that you have to meditate and do walking meditation again. Hurry up and make it a habit until it becomes something you like to do. Otherwise, it will bother you all the time. 

Every time you see it, you will feel uncomfortable. You have to meditate and do walking meditation again. But if you keep sitting and walking until it becomes a habit, you will not think like this. You will only find time to sit and walk more. Let us be diligent, patient, and persevering. Where there is effort, there is success. It does not depend on anyone, not on the Lord Buddha or teachers. It depends on ourselves. Attahi attano natho, oneself is a refuge for oneself. 

With diligence, practice according to the teachings of the Lord Buddha.

Phra Ajahn Suchart Aphichato

Wat Yan Sangwararam, Chonburi

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

www.phrasuchart.com

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