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　　This was the enlightenment of the Buddha. As soon as you perform any action at the physical level or at the vocal level, you defile your mind, you generate negativity in your mind. As soon as you generate negativity in your mind, misery starts. At the surface of the mind you do not know because you have not gone deep inside. But deep inside you have started suffering.

　　It is the same with stealing. You can”t steal unless you generate greed in your mind. You can”t commit sexual misconduct unless you generate passion in your mind. You can”t lie and deceive others unless you generate ego or craving or some impurity or the other in your mind. The law of nature is such that as soon as you generate any negativity in your mind, you start suffering. And it is not that the result of this action will come after death. It will come after death also but nature doesn”t wait for that - it starts punishing you here and now and it keeps punishing you.

　　Idha tappati, pecca tappati, papakari ubhayattha tappati.

　　He suffers now, he suffers after death, in both cases the wrongdoer suffers.

　　If you perform any action, sinful action, unwholesome action, at the physical or vocal level - you start suffering, suffering, suffering. This was the Buddha”s teaching which is universal. Anybody who performs any action, physical or vocal, which harms, hurts or disturbs the peace and harmony of others, starts suffering immediately.

　　Manasa ce padutthena bhasati va karoti va.

　　When you perform any action, physical or vocal, with a defiled mind, then what happens

　　Tato nam dukkhamanveti cakkam”va vahato padam.

　　Then misery will keep following you - following you, like the wheel of the cart follows the bullock, that is yoked to the cart. Wherever it runs, because it is yoked to the cart, the wheel is there, the wheel is there. Because you perform an action, physical or vocal, with the base of a defiled mind, you have multiplied your habit pattern of reacting with the defiled mind. And this habit pattern keeps multiplying, keeps generating misery for you. One understands this by practicing Vipassana. Every moment that I react with aversion, I become miserable. The sensation that I experience while generating aversion is a very unpleasant sensation. It makes me feel so unhappy, and I realize, "Look nature is punishing me, nature is punishing me now, here and now and will continue to punish me unless I come out this habit pattern."

　　This is the law of nature. The Buddha did not create it. Buddha is not the creator of Dhamma. Dhamma is there. The Buddha discovered it. He went to such a depth that he discovered the law of nature at the experiential level, which made him an enlightened person.

　　Everyone can practise the technique that he discovered and they will get the same result. Everyone can explore the truth within the framework of the body and can understand the interaction: "Look what is happening. As soon as I defile my mind the punishment is there." When you become more and more established in this truth at the experiential level your sila becomes perfect. If I place my hand on the fire - knowingly or unknowingly - it burns. The next time I will be very careful: "Oh, I should not place my hand on the fire - it burns - look, it burns and I don”t like this burning. I want to keep my hand away." As the fire outside burns you as soon as you touch it, so also, your impurities burn you as you start generating them, and you start experiencing this burning. You won”t want to generate more misery for yourself when you start experiencing the truth inside.

　　This is what the Buddha called passa-yana: "With Vipassana you observe directly; experience this truth and understand the reality. Then you understand my teaching pro…

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