Ajahn Chah

That is, they have no clinging.

When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, oh, that sound's bothering me.

If we see it like this, we suffer.

But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound.

If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it.

We leave it be.

The sound is just sound.

Why should you go and grab it?

You see, that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

Do you have time to breathe?

Meditation is your breath.

Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?

Breathing is something vital to people's lives.

If you see that Dharma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practicing the Dharma are equally important.

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there, we are wrong.

It becomes wrong view.

When suffering arises, where does it arise from?

The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering.

If it was right view, it wouldn't cause suffering.

With even a little intuitive wisdom, we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.