Ajahn Chah

Our practice is comparable to this.

If you practice according to the path laid down by the Buddha, following it straight, you will transcend two things.

What two things?

Just those two extremes that the Buddha said were not the path of a true meditator.

Indulgence in pleasure and indulgence in pain.

These are the two banks of the river.

One of the banks of that river is hate.

The other is love.

Or you can say that one bank is happiness and the other unhappiness.

The log is this mind.

As it flows down the river, it will experience happiness and unhappiness.

You should see that there is nothing other than happiness and unhappiness arising and disappearing.

If you don't run aground on these things, then you are on the path of a true meditator.

This is the teaching of the Buddha.

Happiness, unhappiness, love and hate are simply established in nature according to the constant law of nature.

The wise person doesn't follow or encourage them.

They don't cling to them.

It is the right practice.

Virtue or Sila is the beautiful beginning of the path to liberation.

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