The Way To Freedom From Suffering | Online Retreat Oct 2023
by Ajahn Anan
We want peace. We don’t want the mind to be restless and proliferate. We don’t want to be greedy, angry, deluded. We would like to have samādhi. So we must train. We have learned that we should be generous, live morally, practice mental cultivation, and make the mind still and serene, so wisdom will arise. It’s not that doing nothing, wisdom will arise on its own. We would have had to accumulate the merits and paramis in the past. People who have been generous in the past find it easy to give. Giving a lot or giving a little, they give according to their ability. For those who come to meditate, they see the harm of confusion and delusion within the mind. They see the benefits of searching for peace. Continually put in effort. Give up what is unwholesome, practice what is wholesome, and the chaos and disturbance in the mind will lessen. There will come a point when the mind is peaceful and the Dhammas will arise.
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