Dhamma for Ordinary Sick People | Ajahn Buddhadasa

Dhamma for Ordinary Sick People by Ajahn Buddhadasa.

This Dhamma talk is for stimulating the intelligence of people who are ill.

Please listen carefully and consider thoroughly.

Illness ought to be seen as natural occurrences for all physical sankharas, whether humans or other animals, because sankharas undergo change.

Whenever there is change, it can be up or down.

Upward change feels comfortable and healthy.

Downward change creates illness.

When physical sankharas get successively older, most of the change is painful and ill.

This fact needs to be seen as it truly is.

All sankharas are just like this.

In short, pain and illness are normal and natural for physical sankharas.

Let us examine the reason why this illness happens.

We ought to consider in a beneficial direction, that is, to see that this illness occurs to warn us.

Illness doesn't exist to make us suffer or be sad.

There's nothing about it to be sorry for or suffer over, which have no benefit because physical sankharas are just like this.

Rather, illness is to warn us and teach us to be more intelligent rather than suffer.

Illness informs us to be ready for the ultimate quenching without remainder of dukkha.

If we as yet spin around in samsaric cycles, we necessarily suffer with birth, aging, illness, and death.

If you don't want birth, aging, illness, and death to occur, then don't spin around in the cycles of samsara.