57. When you do something bad, there is nowhere you can go to hide. Even if others don’t see you, you must see yourself. Even if you go into a deep hole, you’ll still find yourself there. There’s no way you can commit bad actions and get away with it.

In the same way, why shouldn’t you see your own purity? You see it all – the peace, the agitation, the liberation, the peace, the bondage. You see all these for yourself.

56. Some of you have come from thousands of miles away, from Europe and America and other far-off places, to listen to the Dhamma here at Nong Pah Pong Monastery. To think that you’ve come from so far and gone through so much trouble to get here.

Then we have these people who live just outside the wall of the monastery but who have yet to enter through its gate. It make(s) you appreciate good kamma more, doesn’t it?

These reflections by Ajahn Chah are from the book, No Ajahn Chah “Kamma” (pdf), pp. 68 and 67, respectively.