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Buddhist master Achaan Chah spent years meditating in a forest monastery of Thailand. This remarkable book reflects his simple and powerful message as well as the quiet, joyful Buddhist practice of dhudanga, or everyday mindfulness, with profound insights for the West.
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Achaan Chah
A The Insight Meditation of compiled by Jack Kornfield & Paul Breiter |
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Copyright 1985 by Jack Kornfield and Paul Breiter
First Quest Edition 1985
Tenth printing, 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chah, Achaan.
A still forest pool.
1. Spiritual life (Buddhism) 1. Sunno, Bhikkhu, 1945 II. Breiter, Paul. III. Title.
BQ5650.C45 1985 294.3444 85-40411
ISBN 978-0-8356-0597-7
ISBN for electronic edition, e-pub format: 978-0-8356-2047-5
Dedicated with deepest gratitude to the Venerable Achaan Chah Subato, our teacher, guide, and friend, to his many devoted students and disciples, especially Achaan Sumedho, to his teachers Achaan Tong Rath and Achaan Mun, and to the teachers before them, the lineage of centuries of those in the forest who realized through their simplicity and genuine practice the freedom and joy in the teachings of the Buddha. And dedicated to our parents, for their care and support along our way.
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
Achaan Chah
We wish to thank and acknowledge assistance from many friends and teachers, especially the Venerable Achaan Sumedho (currently abbot of the forest wat at Chithurst, England) and the Venerable Pabakaro Bhik-khu the bhikkhu sangha at Wat Ba Na Na Chat, in Ubol Thailand, who reviewed and offered suggestions for this manuscript; Andy Taido Cooper and Steve Ikko Bodian of the Zen Center of Los Angeles; and especially to Shirley Nicholson and the Theosophical Publishing House for their valuable support and editorial assistance.
Portions of Questions for the Teacher and Glossary of Buddhist Terms are from Living Buddhist Masters by Jack Kornfield 1977 and are reprinted by permission from Prajna Press, an imprint of Sham-bhala Publications, P.O. Box 308, Back Bay Annex, Boston, Mass., 02117. A Monk's Life and Not Self are from the film The Mindful Way, produced and broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp., London, England, and are used by permission.
It is a pleasure to write this foreword to the book of my Dharma friend, Achaan Chah.
Our world is at a very interesting age. In the West, people are studying yoga, karate, meditationEastern things. In the East, people are studying science, business, Western art and philosophyWestern things. This is now the time when Yin and Yang are changing very quickly. So if you are holding on to any ideaof what is Eastern, what is Western, how things are, how things ought to beholding any idea, any opinion at all, then you will have a problem; you cannot connect with this world. But, if you lay it all down, all your ideas, all opinions, then the truth is right in front of your eyes: the sky is blue, the tree is green, sugar is sweet, salt is salty. The dog is barking, woof! woof! The rooster is crowing, cockle-doodle-doo! Then, when you're hungry, just eating, when you're tired, just sleeping is possible. A hungry person comes, you can give him food. A thirsty person comes, you can give him something to drink. That's all! That's enough! That is Buddhismnothing at all.
Achaan Chah says, People are like buffalounless they are tied down firmly by all four legs, they will not allow themselves to be given any medicine.... In the same way, most of us must be totally bound up in suffering before we will let go and give up our delusions. If we can still writhe away, we will not yet give in. A few people can understand the Dharma when they hear it taught and explained by a teacher. But life must teach most of us all the way to the end. That is very wonderful speech, just correct!
Achaan Chah once walked by some students at the Insight Meditation Center who were doing slow walking meditation on the lawns. He remarked that the meditation center looked like a mental hospital for the diseases of the worldly mind. All afternoon, as he wandered past students, he would call out to them, Get well soon. I hope you get well soon. That is also very wonderful.
He says, Hey, listen. There's no one here, just this. No owner, no one to be old, to be young, to be good or bad, weak or strong.... No one born and no one to die.... When we carry a burden, it's heavy. When there's no one to carry it, there's not a problem in the world. That is the True Way.
Achaan Chah tells one good Zen story. In the Zen koan of the flag in the wind, two persons are watching a flag: one says it is the wind that moves, the other says it is the flag. They can argue forever, take sticks and fight it out, all to no avail. It is the mind that moves. That is correct. But very important, if there is no mind, then no problem. If you have mind, you have a problem. So where does mind come from? Who made that?
Great Master Achaan Chah has already given you the Great Way, Truth and Correct Life. I hope you find your true way from this book, get Enlightenment, save all beings from suffering.
ZEN MASTER SEUNG SAHN
Providence Zen Center
Suppose you were to go to Asia in the 1980s in search of living teachings of the Buddha, to discover if there are still monks and nuns practicing a life of simplicity and meditation, supported by alms-food, and dwelling in the forest. Perhaps you had read descriptions of the Buddha himself wandering with his monks in the forests of India, inviting men and women of good families to join him in cultivating wisdom and universal compassion, inviting them to live the simple life of a mendicant, to dedicate themselves to inner calm and awareness. Would you find this way of life alive today, twenty-five centuries later? And would its teachings still be applicable and relevant for our modern society, our modern minds?
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