“Once the mind is fully centered, then no matter whether you are sitting, standing, walking or lying down, the mind will be centered at times. You will be able to see clearly how your own defilements — greed, anger and delusion, which arise from the mind — arise from this and that cause, how they remain in this or that way, and you will be able to find means to abandon them with this or that technique.
“This is like the water in a lake which has been muddy for hundreds and hundreds of years suddenly becoming clear so that you can see all the things lying along the lake-bottom — things which you never dreamed were there before. This is called insight — seeing things as they truly are. Whatever sort of truth they have, that’s the truth you see, without deviating from that truth.”
Ajahn Thate
(via culturedwind)
