Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| You may hurt me, but I'll be back to kick your... |
If we have wrong understanding, we practice meditation like a thief who, after being caught, hires a lawyer to get out of trouble. Once out of trouble, we start stealing again.
Or we are like a boxer who gets beaten up, nurses the wounds, then goes off to fight again, which only brings fresh wounds. And this cycle goes on endlessly.
Or we are like a boxer who gets beaten up, nurses the wounds, then goes off to fight again, which only brings fresh wounds. And this cycle goes on endlessly.
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| First I became calm then I developed insight. |
The purpose of meditation is more than just calming [samadhi, absorption, bliss] ourselves from time to time, getting ourselves out of trouble [this present suffering]. Meditation is about seeing and uprooting the causes that made us uncalm to begin with.
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