08/04/2026
Question: We are, of course, working at the intellectual level here, which is inevitable for the moment. But could you explain more about the body being vibrational?
And is one always responsible for the agitation in one’s own body, or is one susceptible to the vibrations coming from someone else?
Goenkaji: Whatever vibration comes from outside, it will certainly try to affect you. But if you are your own master inside, then your vibration will be so strong that you will start helping and purifying the vibration outside. If I am a weak person, anything will try to overpower me.
If agitation is coming, and I am a weak person, I’ll succumb to that. If I am a strong person, I don’t mind any kind of thing coming my way—I generate my vibration, which is a vibration of love, compassion, goodwill, stability, equanimity, and I’m not harmed.
So that’s why we say in Vipassana that one hundred percent of the cause of our misery is within ourselves, not outside. One hundred percent of the cause of our happiness is within ourselves, not outside. We are our own masters. Develop that mastery of yourself and you will become a happy person.
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📷- Dhamma Pataka Meditation Hall
