A little moment of insight

"Luckily as is so often the case in our lives, we have a moment, you could call it a little moment of insight, or a shift, takes place.

Suddenly I became very keen to really study this truth. And thinking back at my life as a lay person, as a teenager, back in England, and then coming to Malaysia and Thailand on my family holidays, seeking pleasure, enjoying things, all very nice, nothing too blameworthy about that, but realising
that essentially there was a deception going on. The constant message, was of course that the external world, the material world, the sensual world is where we will find our happiness. And when the material world, the sensual world, goes wrong then we'll suffer.

Ajahn Chah's message through his life and through his presence to me, was no thing, no person, no event, no situation, has the power to make you suffer, or even should be seen as negative, should be judged in any way. We're actually free to make our own decision." ~ Ajahn Siripanno