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Dissatisfaction Leads to Satisfaction | Dhamma Siddhi Thero
Monk: (Speaking generally, as if to a wider audience) There is nothing special or strange about this. If anyone has a question, we discuss it. If you feel that listening to this discussion of experiences is beneficial, then please continue listening. Listen for as long as you feel it is good for you. When you feel you've had enough, you can stop. In that, you can also observe the workings of your own mind.
Layperson: Venerable Sir, sometimes I listen to these things with great enthusiasm, but then suddenly, I feel as if I'm fed up with everything. I feel a change. I wonder why that happens.
Monk: Then you will discover a secret for yourself. Afterwards, you can determine why that happened and what the cause was. Once you see the cause, you realize your own foolishness, or else you understand the true nature of the situation. Then, it is up to you to decide whether to continue living in delusion.
Layperson: The goal is to understand the mind and live happily and beautifully, Venerable Sir.
Monk: Regarding your own problems, as I said, try to go back and find the root cause. You must make that effort. Because if you don't, what happens is you'll get bored. Then after some time, something else will happen, and you'll go back to normal. But when that same point arises again, you will fall again. So, to avoid falling repeatedly, you first need to see the nature and extent of the hole you fell into before. You need to see why it happened. That is what's meant by seeing and knowing. After you have properly seen, known, and understood it, the next time a similar event is about to happen to you, you will realize, "Ah, something like that is about to happen." Therefore, when you become mindful in those moments, you can see it for what it is and not be destroyed by it, because now you know its secret. The important thing is to live with this understanding, rather than just passing through the situation in the usual way. When you do that, the suffering, problems, and issues you speak of—the unpleasant events in your life—will not keep resurfacing. It means you must find and examine the breaking points in your life. If you check those, you'll be fine. After that, no matter what is about to happen, you will understand.
Then, if it's something essential—for instance, you say you get a little angry about your children's affairs. That is something our own parents conditioned us to do. Even in the Dhamma, it says parents have a duty to prevent their children from wrongdoing and establish them in wholesomeness. So, if they are heading towards unwholesome things, we must prevent them. At the same time, we must establish them in goodness. In those instances, we sometimes have to get angry for their own well-being.
The mistake is in how you get angry. You don't get angry with awareness, thinking, "Today I will be this angry. I will speak to my child this sternly," or "I will discipline them." You don't do it with that awareness. You do it after seeing the problem.
Layperson: Yes, Venerable Sir, that is what happens.
Monk: What is important is to live with understanding. Then the burdens you carry will disappear. Only what needs to be done will remain.
Layperson: In some of your sermons, I find the exact answers to the questions in my mind. It was by chance that I recently started listening to your sermons. After that, Venerable Sir, I listen to them every single day. As I listen more and more, I understand our shortcomings and the points where we clash and fall into this suffering. A great understanding has truly arisen in me. But then, all of a sudden, I see those moments where my mind sinks again. The question that came to me, Venerable Sir, was, "Why does it sink?"
Monk: To understand the law of cause and effect means you must be aware of how something is happening when it happens. If that understanding is there, then that person knows where they should and should not fall. For example, people use the phrase, "I wonder if what I said was a lie," because they have some internal conflict. But when you examine yourself, you will see that you are doing the right things in the right places as they should be done. You live beautifully. You don't make your life helpless by getting trapped in fear, doubt, or concepts of merit and sin. You understand that whatever you do for the good of all, it is the intention that is important, not the action. That is what Buddhism teaches. You give weight to what you do, but you are not attached to the value of the outcome.
Your problem is that you feel angry because of your children, and the Dhamma says anger is wrong. But what matters is the context in which that anger is applied. The intention is what is important. You must see that side of it correctly and realize it.
Layperson: Venerable Sir, we humans are truly in a great delusion. When you hear the right path, the heart feels an amazing sense of wonder.
Monk: Yes, but that is not something we can force upon someone. The special nature of this teaching is that you cannot just give this knowledge to another person. If we could, we have been here for over twenty years; we would have done it. This finds the right person at the right time. They get to hear it somewhere. It is heard by those who truly need it, who have faced problems and issues, and who have sincerely resolved in their conscience, "I need to be free from this." It starts to come to those who have made up their minds to live in harmony with their conscience.
Actually, I started listening to Dhamma talks in 2011 from a certain monk. Later, I didn't know anything about that monk. I just typed [a phrase] and your name came up. After that, I listened to that monk's sermons. I didn't even know his name. It was by chance, about a month ago, that I heard your first sermon. From that sermon, I felt a huge change, as if I had found something I had been searching for. After that first sermon, I subscribed and listened to many of your talks. I feel a great happiness, Venerable Sir. It feels like we have made a lot of merit to be born in Sri Lanka as Buddhists. If we receive this Dhamma correctly, I think there may not be another people in this world as happy as us.
Monk: Definitely. But the thing is, this is only found by those who are ready. It's a certain vibration in nature, and it only encounters a person who has arrived at that point. It's not something you get just for being a Buddhist by certificate or affiliation. On a practical level, they must be suited for this. Some people go around in circles. They listen to the sermons of a hundred or two hundred different monks. After listening and listening, it is when they are still not satisfied that they start searching for the real story, for what they can apply to their own lives. It is at such a time that they encounter this.
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Title: අතෘප්තිය තෘප්තියට මග පෙන්වයි | @dhammasiddhi
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