We must learn to let go of conditions and not try to oppose
or resist them. And yet we plead with them to comply with our wishes. We look
for all sorts of means to organize them or make a deal with them. If the body
gets sick and is in pain, we don't want it to be so, so we look for various
Sutras to chant. We don't want the body to be in pain. We want to control it.
These Sutras become some form of mystical ceremony, getting us even more
entangled in clinging. This is because we chant them in order to ward off
illness, to prolong life and so on. Actually the Buddha gave us these teachings
in order to help us know the truth of the body, so that we can let go and give
up our longings, but we end up chanting them to increase our delusion.
(The Teachings of Ajahn Chah)
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