Ajahn Suchart
“If you think, ‘I can die anytime', then you’ll have
no worry.”
Layperson: “Do you ever think about yourself,
what will happen in 5 years’ time or 10 years’ time?”
Than Ajahn: “Yes, I know I will die. I think of
it all the time, every day. May be it’s not in 5 years’ time, maybe I’ll die
tomorrow. I don’t think what’s going to happen in 5 years’ time, I look at it
moment to moment. If I stop breathing, I could be dead in the next moment. As
soon as I stop breathing, I die. Thinking like this makes me think that life is
very short. It makes life easy. I don’t have to worry about anything because I
can stop breathing any time. Once I stop breathing, then there is nothing I have
to do.
The Buddha taught us to think about ‘Stop breathing.’
He said, ‘Just think of it every moment. When you breathe out and you don’t
breathe in, you’ll die. When you breathe in and you don’t breathe out, you’ll
die.’ So, keep thinking like this. This is all you want to know about the
future. There’s nothing more that you need to know.
If you know more than that, it only cause you worry,
anxiety, restlessness and agitation. But if you think, ‘I can die anytime,’
then you’ll have no worry. You will not cling to anything. You wouldn’t want to
have anything. You know you might not get it if you die before you have it.
It’s better just to be happy here and now. Once you’re happy here and now, then
you don’t have to worry about tomorrow.”
From “Dhamma in English to laypeople from Italy,
Feb 8, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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