Ajahn Chah

If we truly see an impermanent condition, we'll see that it's permanent.

It's permanent in the sense that its subjection to change is unchanging.

This is the permanence that living beings possess.

There is continual transformation from childhood through to old age.

And that very impermanence, that propensity to change, is permanent and fixed.

If you look at it like this, your heart will be at ease.

It's not just you who has to go through this, it's everyone.

When you consider things in this way, you'll see them as wearisome and disenchantment will arise.

Your delight in the world of sense pleasures will disappear.

You'll see that if you have many possessions, you have to leave a lot behind.

If you have a few, you leave few behind.

Wealth is just wealth.

Long life is just long life.

They're nothing special.

What is important is that we should do as the Lord Buddha taught and build our own home, building it by the method that I've been explaining to you.

Build your own home.

Let go.

Let go until the mind reaches the peace

that is free from advancing, free from retreating, and free from stopping still.

Pleasure is not your home.