Forest Path - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

88 forest path
TK:
TP:
For me I want to be a samaõa, just let them see the samaõa.
Please explain that.
TK: When you see someone have a peaceful mind, his body look
very peaceful, doing everything very peaceful, for me I think it’s
enough for them to see someone peaceful… enough and can talk
with them, with him in the peaceful way. I think it’s enough. But I
don’t know yet how to be the peaceful one.
TP: Tan Kongkrit is there anything you want to say in closing.
Any words you want to add?
TK: So many thing…(laughing) when I come here in the early
day I was very strange, when I want to go somewhere I always think
too much like I want to do it, I want to train myself better, harder but
in my mind sometime I know I cannot do it. Then when I stay here in
the early day I alway paranioy, I think many people look at me and
think: ‘what are you doing?’ Actually, nobody but my mind like to
say that.
TP: Like when I first came I know that I would look to you many
times to see how to do things right, very graceful, very naturally, we
never got a chance to talk and you never had a chance to explain in
words, but I would watch and it’s very helpful,
TK: That’s my idea, when I learn something from someone I
don’t just want to listen. Because talking it’s easy to make it beautiful
or I can train myself to do it in a beautiful way then someone show
us how to do it is more difficult. When I stay here for a long time
with everybody, I think nobody change but my mind change a lot;
farang in my mind is not farang in the old day at all. It’s nobody
change — they are still farang — I think, but my mind. I stay here,
now and I compare with the early days. I think, ‘Korat is better’; ‘that
better’; ‘this better’. Then, after two years… almost two years and a
half, when I went to visit Korat again, I think that ‘Korat is not so
good’. I think that the wat in Korat have lots of problems. Korat is
very relax, everybody can do his way.
Funny thing about mistake about language; a lot of joke for me at
Pah Nanachat. For example, one day Mae Jorm, an old woman she
died and her coffin is in the sàlà and Tan Ajan said on the tea time