“Right now the Buddha is still happy. His spiritual
part is still happy.”
“The spiritual part of life is never destroyed. It’s
your physical part that is destroyed. Once your physical part is destroyed,
your spiritual part can exist without the physical part. Then, when the right
time comes, you will get a new physical body again. This world is not the only
world where it can support the physical body. There are plenty of other worlds
in this universe which we still don’t know.
Our spiritual part can go to any part of the universe
without having to use a rocket. The spiritual part can go by the speed of
thought. So, there are always physical world with spiritual beings possessing
the physical body.
Physical body is temporary. It can only exist for a
few years and then it dies. Then the spiritual part of us will go and look for
a new physical body. This goes on and on until we meet an enlightened person
like the Buddha. The Buddha said that we don’t need to have physical bodies and
we don’t need to have material things to make us happy. We can be happy by
meditating.
So, once you know how to meditate, then you don’t have
to have anything to make you happy. You can just meditate and it can make you
happy. Then, you don’t have to be reborn again. You don’t have to have a new
body because having a new body is a burden. You have to feed the body. You have
to look after the body. You have to pay the price when the body gets old, gets
sick, and dies. It’s better not to have a body and yet you can still be happy.
Right now the Buddha is still happy. His spiritual
part is still happy. He doesn’t need the physical part/body to make him happy.
However for us, we still need physical parts because we don’t know how to
meditate. We thought that the only way to make us happy is to have a body, so
that we can go travel and have fun. But if we know how to meditate, then we
don’t have to travel. We don’t have to go to movies, to bars or to restaurants
to make us happy. We can just meditate and be happy. The world will live in
peace and this is what life is if everybody takes up meditation. Nobody has to
compete for the material things.”
From: “Dhamma in English to layperson from
Austria, Jan 15, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
www.phrasuchart.com
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