Ajahn Chah
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
His body's not so healthy.
Everything is leaving.
So you needn't worry about anything because this isn't your real home.
It's only a temporary shelter.
Having come into this world, you should contemplate its nature.
Everything there is, is preparing to disappear.
Look at your body.
Is there anything that's still in its original form?
Is your skin as it used to be?
Is your hair?
They aren't the same, are they?
Where has everything gone?
This is nature, the way things are.
When their time is up, conditions go their way.
In this world, there is nothing to rely on.
It's an endless round of disturbance and trouble, pleasure and pain.
There's no peace.
When we have no real home, we're like aimless travellers out on the road.
going here and there, stopping for a while and then setting off again.
Until we return to our real homes, we feel uneasy, just like a villager who's left his village.