It’s so important to develop insight through practice, because inspiration wears out, and if you are attached to and blinded by it, you are in for terrible disillusionment and bitterness. There’s a lot of this with different charismatic guru figures who teach around theworld. It’s not balanced. You may become intoxicated by somebody else’s charisma, but you can’t maintain it, so you inevitably fall down into some lower state. The way of mindfulness, however, is always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects. Then suffering isn’t dependent on the world being good or bad, but on how willing we are to use wisdom in this present moment. The way out of suffering is now, through being able to see things as they are.
Ajahn Sumedho
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