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　　 You are creating a fire, aren”t you

　　 This is origination itself.

　　If you understand these things, then morality will be born here. Dhamma will be born here. So prepare yourselves. The Buddha advised us to prepare ourselves. You needn”t have too many concerns or anxieties about things. Just look here. Look at the place without desires, the place without danger. Nibbana paccayo hotu - the Buddha taught, let it be a cause for Nibbana. If it will be a cause for realization of Nibbana, then it means looking at the place where things are empty, where things are done with, where they reach their end, where they are exhausted. Look at the place where there are no more causes, where there is no more self or other, me or mine. This looking becomes a cause or condition, a condition for attaining Nibbana. Then practicing generosity becomes a cause for realizing Nibbana. Practicing morality becomes a cause for realizing Nibbana. Listening to the teachings becomes a cause for realizing Nibbana. Thus we can dedicate all our Dhamma activities to become causes for Nibbana. But we are not looking towards Nibbana. We are looking at self and other and attachment and grasping without end. This does not become a cause for Nibbana.

　　When we deal with others and they talk about self, about me and mine, about what is ours, then we immediately agree with this viewpoint. We immediately think, "Yeah, that”s right!" But it”s not right. Even if the mind is saying, right, right, we have to exert control over it. It”s the same as a child who is afraid of ghosts. Maybe the parents are afraid, too. But it won”t do for the parents to talk about it; if they do, then the child will feel he has no protection or security. "No, of course Daddy is not afraid. Don”t worry, Daddy is here. There are no ghosts. There”s nothing to worry about." Well, the father might really be afraid, too. If he starts talking about it, then they will all get so worked up about ghosts that they”ll jump up and run away, father, mother and child, and end up homeless.

　　This is not being clever. You have to look at things clearly and learn how to deal with them. Even when you feel that deluded appearances are real, you have to tell yourself that they are not. Go against it like this. Teach yourself inwardly. When the mind is experiencing the world in terms of self, saying, ”it”s true”, you have to be able to tell it, ”it”s not true”. You should be floating above the water, not be submerged by the floodwaters of worldy habit…. The water is flooding our hearts… if we run after things, do we ever look at what is going on

　　 Will there be anyone ”watching the house”

　　Nibbana paccayam hotu - one need not aim at anything or wish for anything at all. Just aim for Nibbana. All manner of becoming and birth, merit and virtue in the worldly way do not reach there. Making merits and skillful kamma, hoping it will cause us to attain to some better state, we don”t need to be wishing for a lot of things; just aim directly for Nibbana. Wanting sila, wanting tranquility - we just end up in the same old place- it”s not necessary to desire these things - we should just wish for the place of cessation.

　　It is like this. Throughout all our becoming and birth, all of us are so terribly anxious about so many things. When there is separation, when there is death, we cry and lament. To me, oyyy, I can only think, how utterly foolish this is. What are we crying about

　　 Where do you think people are going anyhow

　　 If they are still bound up in becoming and birth, they are not really going away. When children grow up and move to the big city of Bangkok, they still think of their parents. They won”t be missing someone else”s parents, just their own. When they return, they will go to their parents” home, not someone else”s…

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