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

alleviate suffering. It is enough to ward off sun, wind, cold or
heat. We maintain these possessions merely for living our lives. In
the end everything deteriorates and disintegrates anyway, so why
would you have strong feelings about possessing things? This
attitude creates a sense of being satisfied and pleased in one’s
heart.
When one is satisfied in every respect, things fall into place.
Feeling satisfied, we are happy and at ease wherever we are,
simply that. We are happy whether we live by ourselves or in a
group, whether we have little or much. When we have eaten
enough of our meal – should someone come to fill up our bowl
again, we simply don’t want it.
Eventually we develop into somebody who doesn’t have
any obstructions, doesn’t have any worries about anything any
more, living in a way that can be called “sugato” 14 .
This is an outline of how things gradually evolve.
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14 literally: “well-gone” – an epithet of the Buddha.
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