..续本文上一页day, I”ve had enough" or "it”s so unpeaceful, I”d better stop". This won”t work. You can”t do it that way -you need to carry on.

　　As I just said, if you don”t experience peace when you are meditating you wonder, wouldn”t it be better to stop, as you”d only be thinking for the whole hour anyway. You wanted to sit samadhi but you keep thinking without end. I”ve gone through all this myself. When you finally open your eyes, you can”t even remember all the stuff that you have been thinking of. That”s how it goes. But nevertheless you have to keep going for it, you have to resist and be endurant. If you haven”t got it yet, don”t worry, just don”t stop doing the practice. If you practice without giving up, you will attain to peacefulness. These are not my words, they are the words of Luang Por Chah. Try to give yourselves encouragement. Even if it”s not peaceful, encourage yourself over and over. You can trick yourself. Tell yourself, that wherever you go there have to be obstacles, and here, the obstacles are actually only your own thinking. It”s not even the case that the obstacles we have to face lie in other peoples thinking - it all comes from ourselves. Our thoughts aren”t obstacles that other people created. It”s our own thinking that isn”t right. Right view and wrong view is something entirely personal. Nobody else can do the understanding for us. We think our thoughts all alone. The krooba-ajahns, our friends and other people, they don”t know. Even if we are sitting together they can”t know for us. We know inpidually for ourselves. This is a point that you need to understand: thinking is entirely personal. Nobody knows for us, only we know ourselves. Sometimes at the meditation time we see some other monk (excuse me -I”m not trying to belittle anyone in particular) sitting there absolutely upright for the whole hour, and we think, "...wow, this monk here, for sure he”s got it.", but in fact he has been thinking without end for the whole hour. Sitting with a straight back is no guarantee for peaceful states.

　　So try out these teachings, all of you. If there are more questions, you can come and ask them step by step. But you need to really give it a go, practice up to the limit. This is very important: to go as far as you, can, really. Don”t just do the practice light - heartedly. If all you do is play around, you won”t get to peace, you won”t develop wisdom. No wisdom for you. You”ll keep getting misled by your kilesas. For example, you think: "I don”t see anybody else practice, I seem to be the only one practicing here. There is nobody else in the wat. I”m the only one really serious about the practice." Then, after some time you think, "eh, I”ve always been so strict, if I was to relax a little more in the future, that would be okay, too...". This can lead to be pulling off more and more. You think: "Maybe I don”t need to come to the meditation sessions any more." Then you sometimes come, sometimes you don”t, and in the end you stay away completely. Eventually, when everybody stays away whenever he likes, monastery- standards (kor wat) are completely gone to the ruin. You need to try to go against the stream, put up with things. "Patience, endurance..." -patience and endurance are the very qualities that you need in order to allow peace and goodness to develop. Even if you don”t see it now, in the future you”ll see it for sure. It needs perseverance. At times, when I was new, I also didn”t experience anything special, and I also still had wrong views and ideas. When I started practicing in the beginning, when I sat meditation there was nothing but confusion. I even started wondering about the Buddha himself, whether or not he actually became really peaceful when he was meditating. These thoughts I had weren”t I right; it is wr…

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