Being Dharma by Ajahn Chah

Author:Ajahn Chah
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781570628085
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2012-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

STUDENT: As to what you were saying about investigating sankhara after the mind has reached an appropriate level of tranquility, we have heard this mentioned many times, such as in the instructions for meditating on the thirty-two parts of the body. By employing concepts and recollection to investigate like this, is one able to come to genuine insight?

AJAHN CHAH: You do need to use the concepts at first. Actually, the truth can never be reached by thinking and perceiving. Any kind of concept, negative or positive, will not make an end of things. But it’s the only way to instruct people. We are talking for the children to understand, to show them that they must do this and this and this. When you get to the end, there will be nothing left. You don’t want to be following any mental formations. If you believe that your conceptions are wisdom, then you are constantly led around by them. They are merely sankhara, conditioned phenomena. And the knowing is not a self and also should be let go. Consciousness is merely consciousness, not a being, a person, an individual, or a self. Put it down! Let it be finished with.

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