..续本文上一页 face that are inherent in this life. This is the big issue. Don”t be heedless! Relying on astrology to tell you what will happen a couple of years from now doesn”t get to the point. Relying on ””Buddhology,”” you don”t have to chew over the past, you don”t worry about the future, but you look at the present. Causes are arising in the present, so observe them in the present.

　　People who say those things are only teaching others to suffer. But if someone talks the way I do, people will say they are crazy.

　　In the past, there was always movement, but it was only a little bit at a time, so it wasn”t noticeable. For example, Sumedho, when you were first born, were you this size

　　 This is the result of movement and change. Is change good

　　 Of course it is; if there were no movement or change, you never would have grown up. We don”t need to fear natural transformation.

　　If you contemplate Dhamma, I don”t know what else you would need to think about. If someone predicts what will happen in a few years, we can”t just wait to see what happens before we do anything. We can”t live like that. Whatever we need to do, we have to do it now, without waiting for anything in particular to happen.

　　These days the populace is in constant motion. The four elements are in motion. Earth, water, fire, and air are moving. But people don”t recognize that the earth is moving. They only look at the external earth and don”t see any movement.

　　In the future, in this world, if people are married and stay together more than a year or two, others will think there”s something wrong with them. A few months will be the standard. Things are in constant motion like this; it”s the minds of people that are moving. You don”t need to look to astrology. Look to Buddhology and you can understand this.

　　””Luang Por, if the communists come, where will you go

　　”” Where is there to go

　　 We have been born and we face aging, sickness, and death; where can we go

　　 We have to stay right here and deal with these things. If the communists take over, we will stay in Thailand and deal with that. Won”t they have to eat rice, too

　　4 So why are you so fearful

　　If you keep worrying about what might happen in the future, there”s no end to it. There is only constant confusion and speculation. Sumedho, do you know what will happen in two or three years

　　 Will there be a big earthquake

　　 When people come to ask you about these things, you can tell them they don”t need to look so far ahead to things they can”t really know for certain; tell them about the moving and quaking that is always going on, about the transformation that allowed you to grow to be as you are now.

　　The way people think is that having been born, they don”t want to die. Is that correct

　　 It”s like pouring water into a glass but not wanting it to fill up. If you keep pouring the water, you can”t expect it not to be full. But people think like this: they are born but don”t want to die. Is that correct thinking

　　 Consider it. If people are born but never die, will that bring happiness

　　 If no one who comes into the world dies, things will be a lot worse. If no one ever dies, we will probably all end up eating excrement! Where would we all stay

　　 It”s like pouring water into the glass without ceasing yet still not wanting it to be full. We really ought to think things through. We are born but don”t want to die. If we really don”t want to die, we should realize the deathless (amatadhamma), as the Buddha taught. Do you know what amatadhamma means

　　It is the deathless - though you die, if you have wisdom it is as if you don”t die. Not dying, not being born. That”s where things can be finished. Being born and wishing for happiness and enjoyment without dying is not the correct way at all. But that”s what people want, so there is no end of suff…

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