processes subject to change. Ajahn Chah says here, the mass of humans do not understand the Dharma and only want to escape from reality. They strive to avoid it and struggle to get away. They don't want it to be the way it is, and wish for it to be otherwise. So it leads to suffering by way of sensual desire, desire for becoming, and desire not to be. I think those are three types of desire in traditional Buddhist teaching. So the Buddha taught us to analyze the body, to give rise to dispassion, detachment and disenchantment, and to see that these conditions are not a being, an individual or a self. It's like when we are working in the fields. We put up a scarecrow when the rice is maturing, so the birds want a light to eat the crops. We gather grass and sticks, tie it all together and cover it with a shirt and pants, and the birds are afraid they won't eat the rice. Now, scarecrow is helping us. Now the rice has a chance to ripen, then we can harvest it, and the job is done. But actually it was only a skeleton of grass and sticks. Once we've harvested the rice, we can discard the Scarecrow there in the patty. That's all there is to it. We are just like the Scarecrow. When consciousness leaves this body, there is nothing, no different from the skeleton of grass. Scarecrow in the field does not go anywhere, and ultimately it is just discarded there. But now we can move. We can go places. We can have all sorts of thoughts and feelings and desires to do things and travel about. We think about going and we go. Think about staying. So we stay. We want to sing and dance and play according to the way of the world. To put it simply, it's just as if we are waiting for the day of death, the harvest. Time comes, the crop is reaped, the rice gathered and carted away, and the scarecrow is discarded in the field. When the day of harvesting comes, we depart, someone who doesn't know the beginning or end of things, will feel elation and depression and go on spinning around, not wanting to have sick illness when he gets sick, not wanting to get old when he gets old, not wanting to die when he dies, not wanting life to disappear. But things are like this. We don't understand the law of nature. We want things to be stable and permanent. This is me. That is her. Everything is seen in terms of me and mine, and dharma is never contemplated. The point is, when it gets to the end, everyone must leave it all behind, material gain, reputation, praise, whatever happiness or suffering there is, is all left here in the world. They're all worldly accomplishments. So lying in the memorial prayer is gone into a vast silence and all of us go into this vast silence. All we have is our actions, Buddhism, we say, our karma. What does that? What is that? A result of result of what we do, how we think, where we place our attention, what matters to us, changing what matters to us changes. Everything doesn't have to be doctrinal. You should do this. You should do that. It's just common sense, cause and effect. Life doesn't bend itself to our will. You start fighting it. You're going to suffer more. They say, I fought the law and the law won. You.