..續本文上一頁ept letting things go freely as it is their original course, they would unfold in a, natural way. But there is always a point where everybody starts worrying -me too, I also had doubts, it”s not only you. When I came into this phase I went thinking: ”"...hmm. Am I really doing things correctly

　　 Did the krooba-ajahns do it this way, does this really lead to peace

　　" There are all kinds of variations that can be produced by our minds preventing our hearts from becoming peaceful. Try get rid of these mind states. Try to keep going and stay unconcerned, unhurried and cool. No need to be afraid of not getting to peacefulness. To say it simply, one needs to keep doing the practice anyway, whether it”s peaceful or not. One really needs to accept everything. If you keep thinking: " Peaceful or not, I don”t care", then you”ll get to peace. If you only want the peaceful states, you”ll go worrying "...hm - is this really it or not

　　" Then you”re already confused, and your heart is even less peaceful than before. If you were to simply let it go according to it”s own logics, it will automatically flow where it naturally inclines to. Don”t overdo sitting with your eyes closed. Do everything well-balanced. In the beginning breathe in very deeply, fully pump all your lungs up with air, then let it all out and relax and start again with another full breath. Then release the air again. Don”t think of anything else then, try to be only in the present. Just that is enough. As concerns the contents of your brain, just try to take your awareness away from it, keeping it with this object. When there are still thoughts and they don”t stop, try to get them to knowing the in- and out-breaths. That”s already enough. Everything will develop on it”s own. Don”t hurry, keep patient, do it continually. Don”t rush yourself into wanting something. If you are impatient and you want to get something, you won”t get it.

　　Keep doing the practice on and on, whether it”s peaceful or unpeaceful. This is what Luang Por Chah said: "If it”s peaceful, keep practicing, if it”s not peaceful, keep practicing. If you”re lazy, keep practicing, if you”re diligent, keep practicing". When you feel lazy, you don”t want to practice. It”s only, when you feel energetic that you do it, This is the problem: What to do when one is lazy

　　 This is where it”s difficult. When peace arises, everybody wants to practice, but if it”s not peaceful, there”s nobody that wants to sit meditation. Of course I can understand how you feel. If somebody doesn”t get calm, during a two-hour-sit, there will be a thousand issues that he”ll be thinking of, whereas, somebody who is peaceful, just sits down and after a while opens his eyes again, saying, he didn”t experience anything apart from feeling good all the time. I do understand your problem; the two experiences don”t feel the same. They are opposites, but still one needs to bear with what comes. Suppose today you sit meditation and it becomes completely unpeaceful, you think: "Man, I wanted to meditate, but during this whole hour, all I”ve been doing is thinking. What”s the use of all this

　　" It”s not that I haven”t had these experiences before, I have also encountered a lot of unpeacefulness. I know what it”s like: sitting for a whole hour thinking here and there, no samadhi at all. Really, I”m not lying, I”m speaking of real experiences, I know how it is. But I always kept patient, improving bit by bit. "No peace - so what - start again. Doesn”t matter that there”s no peace -give it another try", I was encouraging myself. If the meditation is not peaceful, it doesn”t matter. If I just keep doing it on and on there has to be some peace at least one time. Whether it was really going to become peaceful or not, I didn”t know, but nevertheless I kept thinking l…

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