Ajahn Chah
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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What are they going to do?
When I'm gone, who will look after them?
How will they manage?
This is all just the world.
Even the mere rising of a thought fearing death or pain is the world.
Throw the world away.
The world is the way it is.
If you allow it to dominate your mind, it becomes obscured and can't see itself.
So whatever appears in the mind, just say, this isn't my business.
It's impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not self.
Thinking you'd like to go on living for a long time will make you suffer.
But thinking you'd like to die right away or very quickly isn't right either.
It's suffering, isn't it?
Conditions don't belong to us.
They follow their own natural laws.
You can't do anything about the way the body is.
You can beautify it a little, make it attractive and clean for a while, like the young girls who paint their lips and let their nails grow long.
But when old age arrives, everybody's in the same boat.
That's the way the body is.
You can't make it any other way.