No. 432 -The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart
Wed, 9 April 2025
Question : I recently heard the Thai phrase ‘Dhamma jàt săn’ (ธรรมะจัดสรร), could Ajahn please explain what this means?
Than Ajahn : I use this word as Dhamma provider. Dhamma is the provider of everything.
Whatever happens to you, whatever situations that lead you do things is considered to be ‘Dhamma jàt săn’. Dhamma provides you, lets you do things. It isn’t your own volition, not your own desire. But the Dhamma, the circumstances, is the one that initiates or brings things to you. You don’t have to go look for them. If it’s the time for you to have them, they will come to you. This is what I mean by ‘Dhamma jàt săn’. ‘Jàt săn’ means things being arranged for you.
Dhamma is the arranger of things. Everything that happens to you, everything that you do, you do by ‘Dhamma jàt săn’, not by volition.
Normally, without upekkhā, we tend to do things out of our volition, out of our desires or cravings. But if you have strong equanimity or strong upekkhā, you can let Dhamma arranges things for you, which is better because this is the natural way. You don’t have to go look for things. They come to you. You don’t have to look for things to do. There will be things for you to do. So this is what I mean by ‘Dhamma jàt săn’.
Like what I’m doing [teaching] to you right now, it’s considered to be ‘Dhamma jàt săn’ because I have never planned to do this at all in my life time. Things just happen. When things just happen by themselves, this is what’s called ‘Dhamma jàt săn’. I hope this explains what I mean by ‘Dhamma jàt săn’. ‘Jàt săn’ means (the act of) arranging. Dhamma means nature. ‘Dhamma jàt săn’: the natural way of things; things come to you without you having to go look for them.
“Dhamma in English, Dec 5, 2021.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
www.phrasuchart.com
YouTube: Dhamma in English.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi_BnRZmNgECsJGS31F495g
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