Jan 10, 2024
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Ajahn Mun - start where you are.
Happy New Year — Ajahn Jayasāro "Heedful 2019: Take nothing for granted" - New year's blessing from Ajahn Jayasāro from r/Buddhism
The Forest Path
Theravada Monks
I have come across a thoroughly interesting eBook regarding the life for a Thai Forest Monk. It is published by Wat Pa Nanachat Monastery celebrating their 25th Vassa. It contains articles and essays by various Bhikkhus and Ajahns on numerous subjects, and provides insight into what life is like for a Bhikkhu in North East Thailand. It also give glimpses into to Ajahn Chah and…
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Ajahn Chah - A Pillar of the Thai Forest Tradition
Ajahn Chah – A Pillar of the Thai Forest Tradition
Ajahn Chah
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Ajahn Chah was possibly the most influential monk regarding the dissemination of Theravada Buddhism in the West. There are multiple monasteries in the USA and the UK that he had instituted during his ministry. Amaravati Monastery and Abhayagiri Monastery are just two of the many that have sprung up in the last 50 years or so.
His official website is http…
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Welcome
Welcome to Dhamma. This will hopefully be a site of peaceful reflection on the teachings of the Buddha. I am not sure yet how this site is going to develop but I will take it one day at a time. I do intend to provide public domain documents written about the Buddha’s teachings and they will be primarily from the Theravada tradition. I have a particular interest in the Thai Forest Tradition. I…
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah
For 10 to 15 years, I would agree that for many of us -- all that we needed were the requisites of food, shelter, medicine and robes and the opportunity to practice the Dhamma with precepts. For many after that amount of time something started to emerge as we became clearer about the dilemma we were in. From my perspective, every nun who has ever been in the community I have lived in has known the blessings of the life and the rare privilege it is to live the life as an alms mendicant. On the other hand as we finally got more traction as a community of nuns we were also able to see the way that prejudice against women and the inability to discuss matters of importance were affecting our ability to see clearly. What became apparent to me was that we were in a system that was conditioning us so that we couldn’t wake up. When there wasn’t interest to know about our experience or the harm that was happening and when there were severe consequences for non participation in something that I perceived as harmful, I left.
Ajahn Thanasanti in the comments section of her post Working with doubt and grief « Awakening Truth and quoted in Some challenges of living a contemplative life today << on the precipice
Ajahn Thanasanti unexpectedly took full bhikkhuni vows on August 29, 2010, along with several other women and her account is very moving.