Do it for yourself

Here is the updated English translation:

During the time Luang Por Wat Paknam was teaching the super-advanced meditation group, he asked everyone practicing, “Do you know why we practice this?” He asked each person one by one. Some replied, “To practice for Buddhism…for the temple…for Luang Por.”

Everyone answered along these lines until he asked me. I replied to Luang Por, “I come to practice here for myself.”

It was the answer Luang Por was most pleased with. He said, “Yes! It has to be like this to be useful. Coming to practice here is to help yourself. Who can help whom? Practicing is to help yourself escape suffering, escape from being a servant and slave of Mara.”

August 20, 1982