..续本文上一页. And when they go away again, they will still think about their home here in Ubon. Will they be homesick for some other place

　　 What do you think

　　 So when the breath ends and we die, no matter through how many lifetimes, if the causes for becoming and birth still exist, the consciousness is likely to try and take birth in a place it is familiar with. I think we are just too fearful about all of this. So please don”t go crying about it too much. Think about this. Satte kammam vipassati - kamma drives beings into their various births - they don”t go very far. Cycling back and forth through the round of births, that is all, just changing appearances, appearing with a different face next time, but we don”t know it. Just coming and going, going and returning in the round of samsara, not really going anywhere. Just staying there. Like a mango that is shaken off the tree/ like the snare that does not get the wasps” nest and falls to the ground: it is not going anywhere. It is just staying there. So the Buddha said, Nibbana paccayam hotu; let your only aim be Nibbana. Strive hard to accomplish this; don”t end up like the mango falling to the ground and going nowhere.

　　Transform your sense of things like this. If you can change it, you will know great peace. Change, please; come to see and know. These are things one should indeed see and know. If you do see and know, then where else do you need to go

　　 Morality will come to be. Dhamma will come to be. It is nothing far away; please investigate this.

　　When you transform your view, then you will realize that it is like watching leaves fall from the trees. When they get old and dry, they fall from the tree. And when the season comes, they begin to appear again. Would anyone cry when leaves fall or laugh when they grow

　　 If you did, you would be insane, wouldn”t you

　　 It is just this much. If we can see things in this way, we will be OK. We will know that is just the natural order of things. It doesn”t matter how many births we undergo, it will always be like this. When one studies dhamma, gains clear knowledge, and undergoes a change of world-view like this, one will realize peace and be free of bewilderment about the phenomena of this life.

　　But the important point, really, is that we have life now, in the present. We are experiencing the results of past deeds right now. When beings are born into the world, that is the results of past actions appearing. Whatever happiness or suffering beings have in the present are the fruits of what they have done previously. It is born of the past and experienced in the present. Then this present experience becomes the basis for the future, as we create further causes under its influence, and the future experience becomes the result. The movement from one birth to the next also happens in this way. You should understand this.

　　Listening to the dhamma should resolve your doubts. It should clarify your view of things and alter your way of living. When doubts are resolved, suffering can end. You stop creating desires and mental afflictions. Then, whatever you experience, if something is displeasing to you, you will not suffer over it, because you understand its changeability. If something is pleasing to you, you will not get carried away and become intoxicated by it, because you know the way to let go of things appropriately. You maintain a balanced perspective, because you understand impermanence and know how to resolve things according to Dhamma. You know that good and bad conditions are always changing. Knowing internal phenomena, you understand external phenomena. Not attached to the external, you are not attached to the internal. Observing things within yourself or outside of yourself, it is all completely the same.

　　In this way, we can dwell in a natura…

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