Creating Boon through Meditation and Right Actions : หน้า 14/164

"How do we generate, or create, boon?" I ask. Luang Por says: "Suppose you see evil. As soon as you decide to do nothing about it, or as soon as you decide to do something about it, boon happens. To create boon a person needs to separate actions into three categories: • Give up "bad" things (like smoking or drinking) ... boon happens • Do "good" things (like donating) ... boon happens • Purify your mind through meditation ... boon happens He continues: "And WHY do we want to generate boon ... for what reason? Well, because boon is so clear and clean, it will destroy kilesa - and what is kilesa? Ha!!!" He slaps his knee. "Well, kilesa is the garbage of the mind. This is why we clean our minds by meditating! When we meditate, we help get rid of the garbage: When we meditate, we are cleaning our mind. When our mind is under the influence of kilesa, it loses its quality and light. Kilesa has the habit of squeezing the mind ... covering the mind, acting as a puppeteer and coercing it to perform evil, rusting the mind to death. And do you know how kilesa works? It works like this." He stops, closes his eyes, holds out his arms, spreads his fingers, and smiles. Lowering his arms slowly, and opening his eyes, he says, "Well, first it forces the mind to think what it shouldn't: To think about bad things or to see bad things in others. Second, it forces the mind to be like a monkey, switching very quickly from one thing to another, often without finishing one thought before it goes to another. Third, our mind then becomes darker and coarser until it reduces our ability to perceive, memorize, think and then to know. SO, don't blame others automatically. Control your thinking and look at yourself first. Don't blame others first. Usually we have the habit of blaming others or blaming our environment, our situation, our atmosphere. We have to look at ourselves first. All of these, when done repeatedly, cause bad habits. It grows and spreads most particularly through habit. And that means that habits follow us from lifetime to lifetime. Don't believe me. Go prove it for yourself." We all look at one another, thinking that this was it. But I think, "WOW! So meditating is genuinely important, huh?" He smiles, patiently, as though he knows what I am thinking. Then, he says, "So we need to have Samma Samadhi (Right Concentration) and that can be done by concentrating outside or inside the body. If we concentrate on the outside, kilesa will be at work. It is so easy to concentrate on things that are external. But if we