有些人和自己的煩惱挑戰，而且也征服了它們，這就叫作「向內挑戰」。那些向外征戰的人，手持槍彈射殺他人，征服了別人後，又被人征服；征服他人是世間法。在「法」的修習里，我們不須去征服他人，相反地，卻要去征服我們自己的心，耐心地對治我們所有的情緒。
There are those who do battle with their defilements and conquer them. This is called fighting inwardly. Those who fight outwardly take hold of bombs and guns to throw and to shoot. They conquer and are conquered. Conquering others is the way of the world. In the practice of Dhamma we don’t have to fight others, but instead conquer your own minds, patiently resisting all our moods.
Biography / 簡介
阿姜查（1918年—1992年），南傳佛教大師，泰國現代最有影響力的佛教僧人，他依循佛教森林比丘的傳統，進入森林地區修行。阿姜查的修行方式有兩大特色：頭陀行與禪定體驗，兩者都是延續迦葉尊者重視苦行的精神而來。他的教導方式簡單直接，吸引不少西方人士前來學習。
Ajahn Chah (1918 – 1992) was an influential Thai Buddhist monk. His teachings contain elements related to Forest tradition, focusing on a simple and rigorous lifestyle, discipline and moral conduct, meditation, and an emphasis on inner experience rather than a reliance on scholarly knowledge. Ajahn's lectures are simple, direct and deep, so his teachings attract many western followers in the 80s and 90s.