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Ep. 168 – The Wisdom of Ajahn Chah

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Eightfold Path of the Buddha

The eightfold path that the Buddha taught, here's Ajahn Chah again. The mind or the heart is that which walks the path. Or sometimes he would just go up to people, you know, and having a hard time. And he'd say, are you suffering today? You know, and if you said, no, I'm having a good day, he said, oh, lovely. It wasn't a judgment. It was just kind of an observation. This is kind of how it works. Either you're holding on, in which case you're suffering, because you don't want the conditions or the circumstances to be the way they are; or you've let go

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