| Ajahn Sucitto |
And he seemed to be someone who had bigger space inside than outside. Inside he was like a huge space. Because when people would ask a question you see that it went into this space, and disappeared. It’s like when somebody shoots a rocket into the sky, it just goes up in the air, and disappears. And there’s nothing there to hit. So it was very impressive to see such a person. I’d never seen such a person like that before. His sense of timing. The occasion when we asked him if he would go to the Buddhist Society to give the five precepts. He said, “Well, maybe I will, and maybe I won’t.” So we said, “But we’ve got to organise it!” “Perhaps I’ll go. But maybe I won’t, I don’t know really.... If I don’t go Sumedho will go.” So they didn’t know what to do, so eventually they sent this car along. So he said, “Maybe I will go, maybe I won’t go.... Sumedho, you go.” So Ajahn Sumedho got up to go, and he had just got in the car and Luang Por Chah came and said, “I’ll go”.
He’d left it until the last second. His teaching on uncertainty. His main teaching. People were trying to organise, and fix, and hold him to something, and he just refused to play. So that’s where he seemed to keep his whole sense of balance, on present moment. Everything else is uncertain. So that’s how he seemed to not get caught in anything, because he just held that principle so strongly, that nothing could catch him. And he wouldn’t get pulled in, he wouldn’t get pushed away. He’d always just be at that place. Very very beautiful.
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