The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

28 May2026

Monk:  Tan Ajahn, you speak about watching the world and the rest of us, how we chase after suffering disguised as happiness, and the true value of the Buddha’s teachings as one perspective apart from that. 

After living apart from the world and its dynamics for so long, I wonder how you feel when you look at the world with those in it, seeing people chase after this and that. What are your reflections on the situation we all find ourselves in and maybe even in this specific moment in history?  

Tan Ajahn:  Well, we are just chasing after the shadow, our own shadow. We always think that we can catch our own shadow and become happy. But as soon as we start moving toward our shadow, it starts to move away from us. 

So our cravings or our delusion think that having things in this world, like wealth, will make us happy. But as soon as we catch it, we don’t feel happy anymore, right? We feel that we need something more to make us happy. We might be happy just for a few hours or a few days, but after a while, we feel it’s no longer like when we first got it. So we always have to have something new to make us feel happy. So we keep chasing after these things, never-ending.

“Dhamma in English, Dec 18, 2021.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

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My Moody Mom

The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

10 May 2026

My Moody Mom

Question ：I'd like to ask for a means to put my mind at ease despite having the obligation to care for my mother who is elderly and temperamental. She often can't control her mind. 

Than Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto: You can think, ¨I'm taking care of an Arahant〃 if you wish. The Buddha said that parents are like arahants to their children. We have to think about the time when they raised us. We had to poop or pee in the middle of the night. Weˇd cry loudly while they were asleep and wake them up to make them come and carry us to go pee or carry us to go excrete. So, this is the time when your parents are similar to how you were when you were small. This time, you have to repay the care they gave you. So you just have to care for them.

“Dhamma in English, Dec 18, 2021.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

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The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

The Teachings of Ajahn Suchart.

22 May 2026

Monk:  Sometimes some people are confused about the difference between nibbāna dhatu and the knowing element. Are they the same thing or are they different? 

Tan Ajahn:  It’s the knowing element that has achieved nibbāna by purification, by getting rid of the defilements – greed, hate and delusion – through the practice of sīla, samādhi and paññā. 

See, we all have this mind which is called the knowing element. But for us all, we still have delusional element – delusion in this knowing element– which causes us to have greed and hatred, which causes us to go after things, which causes us to take rebirth because of our greed or cravings for things. 

But someone like the Buddha, through his own wisdom, discovered this truth: that the mind can be purified and can be happy, and it doesn’t have to take rebirth anymore. So this is what the Buddha discovered while he was practicing. He had to find out by himself because no one in this world knew how to do it. So he purified his knowing element and he called this purified knowing element ‘nibbāna.’ 

Monk:  So nibbāna element is the purified knowing element, with no ignorance.

Tan Ajahn:  Yeah. No rebirth. It doesn’t take any rebirth anymore in the three realms of existence or in saṁsāra. 

“Dhamma in English, Dec 18, 2021.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto

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