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　　We sit in meditation to establish peacefulness and cultivate mental energy. We don”t do it in order to play around at anything special. Insight meditation is sitting in samadhi itself. At some places they say, "Now we are going to sit in samadhi, after that we”ll do insight meditation." Don”t pide them like this! Tranquillity is the base which gives rise to wisdom; wisdom is the fruit of tranquillity. To say that now we are going to do calm meditation, later we”ll do insight — you can”t do that! You can only pide them in speech. Just like a knife, the blade is on one side, the back of the blade on the other. You can”t pide them. If you pick up one side you get both sides. Tranquillity gives rise to wisdom like this.

　　Morality is the father and mother of Dhamma. In the beginning we must have morality. Morality is peace. This means that there are no wrong doings in body or speech. When we don”t do wrong then we don”t get agitated; when we don”t become agitated then peace and collectedness arise within the mind. So we say that morality, concentration and wisdom are the path on which all the Noble Ones have walked to enlightenment. They are all one. Morality is concentration, concentration is morality. Concentration is wisdom, wisdom is concentration. It”s like a mango. When it”s a flower we call it a flower. When it becomes a fruit we call it a mango. When it ripens we call it a ripe mango. It”s all one mango but it continually changes. The big mango grows from the small mango, the small mango becomes a big one. You can call them different fruits or all one. Morality, concentration and wisdom are related like this. In the end it”s all the path that leads to enlightenment.

　　The mango, from the moment it first appears as a flower, simply grows to ripeness. This is enough, we should see it like this. Whatever others call it, it doesn”t matter. Once it”s born it grows to old age, and then where

　　 We should contemplate this.

　　Some people don”t want to be old. When they get old they become regretful. These people shouldn”t eat ripe mangoes! Why do we want the mangoes to be ripe

　　 If they”re not ripe in time, we ripen them artificially, don”t we

　　 But when we become old we are filled with regret. Some people cry, they”re afraid to get old or die. If it”s like this then they shouldn”t eat ripe mangoes, better eat just the flowers! If we can see this then we can see the Dhamma. Everything clears up, we are at peace. Just determine to practice like that.

　　So today the Chief Privy Councillor and his party have come together to hear the Dhamma. You should take what I”ve said and contemplate it. If anything is not right, please excuse me. But for you to know whether it”s right or wrong depends on your practicing and seeing for yourselves. Whatever”s wrong, throw it out. If it”s right then take it and use it. But actually we practice in order to let go both right and wrong. In the end we just throw everything out. If it”s right, throw it out; wrong, throw it out! Usually if it”s right we cling to rightness, if it”s wrong we hold it to be wrong, and then arguments follow. But he Dhamma is the place where there”s nothing — nothing at all.

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