Aug 23, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
Welcome to the Forest Path Podcast - a podcast sharing the teachings of Awakened meditation masters of the modern era. This episode is a talk given by the forest meditation master Ajahn Gunhah…
It means to improve your manner, practice, speech, and behavior.
The Lord Buddha taught us to be renunciants who don't follow their desires and emotions.
Following your wishes and emotions is nothing but trouble.
It is creating problems.
In sum, the problems you have in this world arise in your own heart.
Practicing means developing the indriya.
When you practice and don't follow your wants and emotions, you feel frustrated, indignant, and pressurized.
You have to know and understand that practicing Dhamma is about having sati and stopping yourself and slowing yourself down.
It is about resisting, enduring, and understanding.
It is not about following your wants, needs, instincts, and habits.
The human race is clever.
We have the ability to do and practice only the good things.
Your life has not been successful yet because you have been following your wishes.
You haven't given any importance to what is good and right.
If you follow your wishes, your heart will become increasingly hot and bothered.
I want the things that I like.
I don't want the things I don't like.
After being born, you have to accept the property of old age, sickness, death, and separation.
We don't like these things and don't need them, yet we get them.
Because of this, it is necessary to direct the heart towards entering the Dhamma.
It means to improve your manner, practice, speech, and behavior.
The Lord Buddha taught us to be renunciants who don't follow their desires and emotions.
Following your wishes and emotions is nothing but trouble.
It is creating problems.
In sum, the problems you have in this world arise in your own heart.
Practicing means developing the indriya.
When you practice and don't follow your wants and emotions, you feel frustrated, indignant, and pressurized.
You have to know and understand that practicing Dhamma is about having sati and stopping yourself and slowing yourself down.
It is about resisting, enduring, and understanding.
It is not about following your wants, needs, instincts, and habits.
The human race is clever.
We have the ability to do and practice only the good things.
Your life has not been successful yet because you have been following your wishes.
You haven't given any importance to what is good and right.
If you follow your wishes, your heart will become increasingly hot and bothered.
I want the things that I like.
I don't want the things I don't like.
After being born, you have to accept the property of old age, sickness, death, and separation.
We don't like these things and don't need them, yet we get them.
Because of this, it is necessary to direct the heart towards entering the Dhamma.
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