Ajja

[Guest guest]

Ajja: So in the beginning, the mind should become still. The mind is

wandering and that must stop. Through meditation, the mind turns inward. And

this should happen not only in meditation, but also in the midst of action.

Nothing that we take to be real in this world actually is. When this world

becomes unreal to you, then the true reality reveals itself. That is the

beginning. In that, we real ize that there is no death, there is no life,

there is only existence. At one point or another, we all have to die. But I

do not mean the death of this body. There is another kind of death‹a death

from which there is no rebirth. When the one who keeps coming back for

reincarnation, when that one dies, that is the real death‹as in my case,

where all experiences have passed. Now, here in this state, there is

nothing.

(from What is Enlightenment Interview)

http://www.wie.org/j14/ajja1.html