..续本文上一页 the left. Breathe in till it reaches here (abdomen), breathe out till all the air is out of your lungs. Breathe in until full then let it go. Now don”t try to regulate it! However long or short it is it”s okay, good enough. Sit and watch your breath go in and out naturally. Don”t let it slip away. If it does, stop! Where has it gone

　　 Find it and bring it back.

　　Sooner or later you”ll meet up with something good. Just keep at it. Don”t think you can”t do it. Just like sowing rice in the earth, as if you”re throwing it away, but soon a sprout is born, then it becomes a sheaf, and soon you husk it and can eat "khao mow" (green sweet rice). It”s like that, you know. That”s its nature.

　　This is the same -- just sitting. Sometimes you think, "What am I sitting here looking at my breath for anyway

　　 It”ll go in and out by itself without me gawking at it!" That”s just our opinionated mind, always flea-picking. Ignore it! Just try to do it till peaceful, because when calm, the breath becomes fine, body becomes relaxed, mind is relaxed, all”s just right. Continuing on till perhaps you”re just sitting there without your breath going in or out, but still alive. Don”t be scared! Don”t run away thinking you”ve stopped breathing! This is already a peaceful state. You don”t have to do anything, just sit in it. Sometimes, it”s like you”re not even breathing, but you are. Many things like this can happen, but it”s okay. Just be aware of it all, without being fooled by any of it.

　　Just keep doing it and often! Right after you eat, hang up your robe and just start walking: "BUD-DHO, BUD-DHO..." Keep at it till your path becomes a knee-deep trench, just keep walking. When tired, go and sit. Do a lot! Do it so that you know, so that you have it, so that it”s born, so that you understand what it”s all about. Not just walking a bit: chung, chok, chung, chok...thinking of this and that, then up to lie down in your hut, soon snoring away! You”ll never see anything that way. If you”re lazy, when will it ever be finished

　　 If you”re tired or lazy, how far will you get

　　 Just get it together, work through and get beyond your laziness. Not saying: "Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful," then sit and aren”t peaceful right away, then quit because it isn”t there.

　　It”s easy to say, but hard to do. Huh! Like saying: "Oh, it”s not hard to plant rice, to plant and eat rice is better than this." But go out and do it and you don”t know the oxen from the buffalo from the plow! Actually, doing it is a lot different from talking about it. That”s how it is, you know.

　　All of you, wanting to find peacefulness -- it”s there! But you still don”t know anything yet. Whoever you ask, you won”t know. Just get to know your own breath going in and out, "BUD-DHO, BUD-DHO..." That”s enough. Just do that. You don”t have to think of much. At this time, know this, learn this for now. "I do it and I don”t see anything." Doesn”t matter, just do it. Whatever comes up, okay, just do it like this, so you”ll know what it”s about. Do it and see! If you just sit like this and know what”s happening it”s really all okay. When your mind becomes peaceful, it knows. You can sit all night till dawn and you won”t feel you”re even sitting, you enjoy it. You can”t explain it, it”s like enjoyment.

　　When it gets like this, you might want to give "profound" sermons, but beware of getting "verbal diarrhea," expounding the Dhamma constantly, driving folks nutty with your non-stop teaching. Like old Novice Sang. One night just at dusk, walking meditation time, I heard someone in the bamboo grove nearby carrying on: "Yo, yo, yo, yo..." I sat and listened, thinking, "Who”s teaching who over there

　　 Who”s carrying on

　　" He didn”t stop, just kept babbling on. So I took my flashlight and walked over to see. Sure enough…

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