..續本文上一頁f thing at all. But have you ever meditated to this point: hasituppapada, the movement of the mind where it smiles on its own, without any intention to smile
It happens only in a noble one”s mind. It doesn”t happen in ordinary people, because it lies beyond the conditions of fabrication — free in and of itself."
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85. Not even the five precepts
Great senior monks tend to have lots of students, both lay and ordained. And among those students are people both good and bad. Especially among the monks: There are lots of good ones, with a few bad ones mixed in. One of the monks close to Luang Pu tended to be a little too casual about taking things without permission. People would report this to Luang Pu, but he tended not to say anything about it.
Once, when he wanted something that this monk had taken, he asked another monk to go ask after it, but the first monk denied having taken it. The second monk came back to inform Luang Pu of the first monk”s denial. Luang Pu didn”t complain, but simply said this:
"Some monks are so intent on observing the 227 precepts that they forget to observe the five."
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86. Never perturbed
It was after 10 p.m., and I saw that Luang Pu was sitting and resting, so I went to inform him, "Luang Pu, Ajaan Khao has died."
Instead of asking when or how, Luang Pu said,
"Ah, yes. Ajaan Khao is finally done with the burden of hauling his sankharas around. I visited him four years ago and saw all the difficulties his physical sankharas were giving him. He had to have other people looking after him all the time. As for me, I have no bad karma with regard to the body. But as for bad karma associated with the body, even noble ones — no matter what the level of their attainment — still have to contend with these things until they”re finally released from them and no longer involved with them. The normal state of the mind is that it has to live with things of this sort. But as for the mind that”s well-trained, when these things arise it can immediately let them go and maintain its peace, without worries, without attachments, free from the burden of having to be involved with them. That”s all there is."
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87. How the Dhamma protects
The great fire in Surin resulted in lot of suffering: a huge destruction of property and a great sense of loss. Some folks even went out of their minds. People came in a stream to see Luang Pu and to bemoan the good they had done in the past, saying, "We”ve been making merit at the temple and practicing the Dhamma since the time of our grandparents. Why didn”t that merit help us
Why didn”t the Dhamma protect us
The fire totally destroyed our homes." Many of these people stopped coming to the monastery to make merit because the Dhamma didn”t help protect their homes from burning down.
Luang Pu said,
"The Dhamma doesn”t help people in that way at all. The fire simply acted in line with its function. What this means is that destruction, loss, disintegration, separation have always been with us in this world. As for those who practice the Dhamma, who have the Dhamma in their hearts, when they meet with these things they understand how to place the mind in such a way that it doesn”t suffer. That”s how the Dhamma helps. It”s not the case that it helps by preventing aging or death or hunger or fire. That”s not the case at all."
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88. Only practice can resolve doubt
When people asked Luang Pu about death and rebirth, or about past and future lives, he was never intere…
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