As you contemplate the cause of suffering, you should
understand that when that which we call the mind is still, it's in a state of
normality. As soon as it moves, it becomes sankhara (that which is fashioned or
concocted). When attraction arises in the mind, it is sankhara, when aversion
arises, it is sankhara. If there is desire to go here and there, it is
sankhara. As long as you are not mindful of these sankharas, you will tend to chase
after them and be conditioned by them. Whenever the mind moves, it becomes
sammutti-sankhara - enmeshed in the conditioned world - at
that moment. And it is these sankharas
- these movements of the
mind -
which the Buddha taught us to contemplate.
(Ajahn Chah)
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