Luang Por Liem: The Ways of the Peaceful - Wat Pah Nanachat

This is not something that we have created by ourselves, it is
where the practice takes us if we follow the natural course of our
training. If you are determined to practice in a similar way, be
aware that experiences like these can only arise specifically in the
course of one’s individual practice.
If you want to follow this path, don’t follow it in a worldly
way. This won’t be much good. Just like the Buddha warned his
five first disciples not to take the path of worldly, unenlightened
people, who follow merely their own moods. Don’t follow your
moods. Be ahead of your moods. If something satisfies you, see it
just as a state of mind. If something frustrates you, see it just as a
state of mind. If you are pleased with something, it is simply one
of the ways that pleasure manifests. Don’t give way to relating to
these experiences in a deluded way.
We need to walk following in the footsteps of the Buddha in
terms of knowing – knowing ourselves and knowing for
ourselves, just as expressed in this little Thai saying:
Know how to
Look and figure it out
Try and speak it out
Go and carry it out
So, today, as you have come to show your respect to me, I’d
like to say that I don’t take these ceremonies as too important for
me as a person, but they are still a nice expression of our
relationship towards each other when we are living together. At
this time, I don’t have any more points of reflection for our
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