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When wanting and clinging are gone, the struggle is gone, and you are liberated from suffering. When you are liberated from suffering, you have an incomparable kind of happiness.

Observe suffering; look at the body and the mind. This is the reason that we must watch our body and our mind. If you know the body and mind as they really are, you see the three characteristics of body and mind. When you see the truth of them, you become disillusioned with them and release your clinging. When wanting and clinging are gone, the struggle is gone, and you are liberated from suffering. When you are liberated from suffering, you have an incomparable kind of happiness. It is a happiness that doesn’t change in response to sights, sounds, smells, tastes, bodily feelings, and thoughts. It is a happiness that is independent of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, bodily feelings, and thoughts. It is independent of things that are uncertain. Sights are uncertain; sounds, smells, tastes, bodily feelings, and thoughts are uncertain. As long as you are dependent on things that are uncertain, then your happiness is uncertain. When you don’t rely on things that are uncertain, when you don’t rely on anything in the world, then you attain the true, perfect happiness.

So keep practicing. Today it might be difficult. In the future it will be easy. Just keep watching the body and the mind. Today there are many defilements. In the future there will be fewer. Today there is a lot of suffering, and it lasts a long time. In the future there will be little suffering, and for a shorter amount of time, until eventually suffering comes to an end. Whoever does it will attain it. But you have to do it properly. Don’t use the methods that the Buddha didn’t teach, such as the method of feeding desires. This doesn’t work. The method of denying desires, that doesn’t work either. The method of knowing suffering until you automatically relinquish desire: That’s the method that works.

Adapted from Voices of Siam 2025 compiled and translated by Bruce Evans.
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Ajahn Pramote took bhikkhu ordination in 2001 and went on to establish his own monastery at Wat Suan Santidham in Chon Buri Province, where he currently lives and teaches.
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