พระอาจารย์อธิบายว่านิมิตองค์พระที่เห็นเป็นกุศลนิมิต ไม่ใช่การคิดไปเอง เกิดจากความบริสุทธิ์ของใจที่ค่อยสว่างขึ้นเมื่อให้เวลากับกุศล และย้ำว่าเราต้องให้เวลากับกุศล ปล่อยให้ท่านกลั่นแก้ไข ชีวิตก็จะดีขึ้นเอง มิใช่ด้วยความพยายามทำให้ดีเองPra Ajarn explains that the vision of the Buddha image is a wholesome sign (kusala-nimitta), not imagination — it arises from the mind's purity growing brighter as one gives time to the wholesome. He stresses that we must give time to the wholesome and let it refine us; then life improves on its own, not by our trying to make it good ourselves.
Someone related that, sitting in a group in the pre-dawn dark with continuous , they opened their eyes in the dim room and saw a yellow sphere with a Buddha image at its center — unsure whether it was a trick of the eye or imagination.
It Is a Wholesome Sign, Not Imagination
What was seen is a (), not imagination — for if one tried to sit and conjure it by thinking, one couldn't. This wholesome sign arises from the mind's . An ordinary mind is dark with greed, aversion, delusion, lust, and ; but as we train and give time to , it refines the mind to purity, the gloom thins, and brightness in the mind appears as a sign.
Good Experiences Arise From Purity, Bad Ones From Impurity
Giving time to the wholesome, it refines the mind clean, and good experiences arise. Bad experiences arise from impurity — no need to be alarmed; where there's impurity, bad experiences occur. But when impurity is gone, purity and brightness arise, and the signs become good experiences. We must give time to the wholesome, because if we don't, we give that time to and the neutral instead.
Give Time to Them, and Life Improves on Its Own
So we must teach the mind to abide with the wholesome, giving time to them, and they refine and correct us, removing the gloom; the mind gradually brightens, good experiences come, and the faculty of faith gains strength to draw in more merit. Life improves because the wholesome proportion grows, and we're liberated into subtler dimensions; the unwholesome and neutral proportions shrink, our biases toward this or that person thin, the drawing-in of demerit lessens, and merit is drawn in more — so life gains more streams of merit and treasure. This isn't by trying to make it good ourselves, for if that worked, everyone in the world would have done it. It requires the wholesome to refine and clear the impurity that causes problems. The Tipitaka thus records, 'accomplish the wholesome' — not 'do good,' because 'good' differs by religion and region, whereas the wholesome is clear by its own nature.