Luang Por Teera Quotes

Sometimes we wake with anxiety. An edgy energy. What will happen today? What is in store for me? So many questions. We want resolution, solid earth under our feet. So, we take life into our own hands. We take action, yeah? Our solutions are temporary. They are quick fix. They create more anxiety, more suffering. There is no resolution to life’s questions. It is easier to be patient once we finally accept there is no resolution.

When you’re born, you are like a single drop of water, flying upward, separated from the one, giant consciousness. You get older. You descend back down. You die. You land back into the water, become one with the ocean again. No more separated. No more suffering. One consciousness. Death is a happy return, like coming home.

Violence, aggression, anger stem from same source. Fear. The only good faith response is to sit with your feelings. Violence does spiritual harm to victim and to perpetrator.

Identity is a prison. No one is spared this prison. Rich man, poor man, success or failure. We build the prison, lock ourselves inside, then throw away the key.

Everyone run from pain towards the pleasure. But when they get there, only to find more pain. You cannot outrun pain.