The Peace Beyond

— Ajahn Chah

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Meditation means to make the mind peaceful in order to let wisdom arise.

This requires that we practise with body and mind in order to see and know the sense impressions of form, sound, taste, smell, touch and mental formations.

To put it shortly, it's just a matter of happiness and unhappiness.

Happiness is pleasant feeling in the mind, unhappiness is just unpleasant feeling.

The Buddha taught to separate this happiness and unhappiness from the mind.

The mind is that which knows.

Feeling is the characteristic of happiness or unhappiness, like or dislike.

When the mind indulges in these things we say that it clings to or takes that happiness and unhappiness to be worthy of holding.

That clinging is an action of mind, that happiness or unhappiness is feeling.
Tagi: #mahajana, ~tibet