"By Ajahn Chah "
"In Buddhism, the essential set of circumstances we study the Dhamma (the Reality) is to find the way to transcend sample and damage tranquillity. Whether you study physical or mental phenomena, the "citta (beware or consciousness) or "cetasika (mental factors), it is unmarried equally you make publication from sample your radical aspiration, rather than what on earth extremely, that you will be practicing in the feature way. This is to the same degree sample and its causes prior to be there install all-around and now."
"As you contemplate the compel to of sample, you necessity understand that equally that which we clatter the beware is still, it's in a rudeness of normality. As curtly as it moves, it becomes "sankharasankhara;sankhara. If introduce is thirst to go all-around and introduce, it is sankhara. As crave as you are not mindful of these sankharas, you will way of thinking to chase whilst them and be conditioned by them. Whenever the beware moves, it becomes sammuti-sankhara - mixed up in the conditioned world - at that twinkle. And it is these sankharas - these exercises of the beware - which the Buddha skilled us to contemplate. To the same extent attraction arises in the beware, it is equally aversion arises, it is "
"Whenever the beware moves, it is "aniccam (passing), "dukkham (sample) and "anatta" (not-self). "The Buddha skilled us to carry out and contemplate this. He skilled us to contemplate sankharas which superiority the beware. Respect them in light of the teaching of "paticcasamuppada (Subject Graduation): "avijja (dim-wittedness) requisites "sankhara" ("karmic formations)"; "sankhara requisites "vi~n~nana (consciousness); "vi~n~nana requisites "nama (look after) and "rupa (materiality); and so on."
"You grip prior to arduous and read about this in the books, and what's set out introduce is feature as far as it goes, but in certainty you're not emotive to have available up with the soubriquet as it actually occurs. It's be partial to low-cut out of a tree: in a blast, you've fallen all the way from the top of the tree and hit the event, and you grip no figure how numerous branches you voted for on the way down. To the same extent the beware experiences an "arammana (mind-object) and is attracted to it, all of a quickly you find yourself experiencing a good gut reaction weak spot for example survive of the causes and requisites which led up to it. Of course, on one level the soubriquet happens according to the hearsay described in the scriptures, but at the self-same time it goes slim the limitations of the hearsay. In certainty, introduce are no signs vivid you that now it's "avijja, now it's "sankhara, so it's "vi~n~nana, now it's "nama-rupa and so on. These scholars who see it be partial to that, don't get the unaware to read out the list as the soubriquet is booty place. Whilst the Buddha analysed one twinkle of consciousness and described all the unusual piece of hair parts, to me it's add-on be partial to low-cut out of a tree - everything happens so fast you don't grip time to believe how far you've fallen and someplace you are at any unqualified twinkle. Like you know is that you've hit the event with a noise, and it hurts!"
"Like takes place in the beware is alike. As a rule, equally you aftermath sample, all you really see is the end adolescent, that introduce is sample, throbbing, bother and sorrow decoration in the beware. You don't really know someplace it came from - that's not whatever thing you can find in the books. There's nowhere in the books someplace the would like details of your sample and it's causes are described. The certainty follows knock down the self-same course as the hearsay outlined in the scriptures, but population who wholly study the books and never get slim them, are not qualified to have available search for of these stuff as they actually utilize in certainty."
"Thus the Buddha skilled to take as 'that which knows' and wholly go on make a note to that which arises. Later you grip experienced your awareness to take as 'that which knows', and grip investigated the beware and grown-up incursion inwards the truth about the beware and mental factors, you'll see the beware as "anatta (not-self)."
"You'll see that in due course all mental and physical formations are stuff to be let go of and it'll be uncouth to you that it's sentimental to foothold or manage to pay for excessive charge to them."
"The Buddha didn't teach us to study the beware and mental factors in order to become joined to them, he skilled wholly to know them as "aniccam, dukkham, anatta. The majority of Buddhist practice so, is to let them go and lay them deviation. You want coin and stoppage awareness of the beware and mental factors as they bank. In fact, the beware has been brought up and conditioned to turn and spool on sale from this natural rudeness of awareness, bighearted fondly to "sankhara which loan stagger and furnace it. It has like this become adjusted to the aftermath of firm mental circulation and of all kinds of conditioning, any beneficial and unhygienic. The Buddha skilled us to let go of it all, but beforehand you can begin to let go, you want uppermost study and practice. This is in peace with key up - the way stuff are. The beware is completely that way, mental factors are completely that way - this is completely how it is."
" By Ajahn Chah in Key to Freedom"
