Ajahn Chah

is simply a feeling that flashes suddenly and is gone.

There, it's born and then it dies.

Love just flashes up for a moment and then disappears.

Where is the consistency in love or hate or resentment?

In truth there is no substantial entity there.

They are merely impressions which flare up in the mind and then die.

They deceive us constantly.

We find no certainty anywhere.

When happiness disappears, unhappiness arises again.

On and on, like this.

In the end, we can say only this.

Apart from the birth, the life, and the death of suffering, there is nothing.

There is just this.

But we who are ignorant run and grab it constantly.

We never see the truth of it, that there's simply this continual change.

If we understand this, then we don't need to think very much, but we have much wisdom.

If we don't know it, then we'll have more thinking than wisdom.

And maybe no wisdom at all.

It's not until we truly see the harmful results of our actions that we can give them up.

that log will definitely reach the sea.