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[Session] Chanting: Salutation to the Triple Gem [Chanting] [Three Refuges]
1. Welcome by Ajahn Amaro. // [Free distribution] [Hearing the true Dhamma]
2. Teachings to Marjorie by Ajahn Chah, Part 1. Thai audio with English translation read by Kittisaro. [Thai audio] // [Similes] [Moods of the mind] [Heedfulness] [Continuity of mindfulness] [Cessation of Suffering]
Reference: “Living with the Cobra,” Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 233.
Continued in Part 2.
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Ajahn Sumedho. // [Amaravati] [Abhayagiri] [Spirit Rock] [Teachers] [Meditation retreats]
2. The inspiration of Ajahn Chah. // [Mahatma Gandhi] [Discernment] [Humility] [Goodwill] [Mentoring] [Faith] [Learning]
3. Quote: “He made sense out of monasticism.” [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Vinaya] [Dhamma] [Trust]
4. Quote: “I think with any Westerner, we’re so full of ourselves when we go [to Asia]. We want to get enlightened....” [Culture/West] [Conceit] [Liberation] // [Mentoring] [Respect for elders]
5. Story: How Ajahn Sumedho met Ajahn Chah. // [Language] [Military] [Vinaya] [Ordination]
6. How Ajahn Chah taught me. [Teaching Dhamma] // [Ageing] [Faith] [Happiness] [Vinaya] [Humor] [Self-identity view] [Culture/West] [Goodwill] [Right Effort] [Idealism] [Clinging]
Quote: “It was through example that I really learned.”
7. How would Ajahn Chah fare in England? [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] [Culture/West] // [Respect for elders] [Culture/Thailand] [Vinaya] [Discernment] [Pace of life]
Story: An emergency landing in Rome. [Fear] [Sensual desire]
Story: Ajahn Chah was threatened while walking almsround in London. [Almsround] [Dhamma]
8. Ajahn Chah made me look at myself. [Teaching Dhamma] // [Hearing the true Dhamma] [Posture/Sitting] [Pain] [Aversion] [Admonishment/feedback] [Humor] [Patience] [Goodwill] [Discernment] [Contentment] [Cessation] [Happiness] [Saṅgha] [Views] [Relinquishment]
Quote: “Your practice now is patience.” — Ajahn Chah
Story: Ajahn Chah chats for hours after Pāṭimokkha. [Idle chatter] [Judgementalism]
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Abhayagiri] [Wat Pah Nanachat]
2. Story: How I met Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Pasanno] // [Types of monks] [Wat Pah Pong] [Seclusion]
Quote: “If you want to stay here, you have to be here for five years.” — Ajahn Chah [Sequence of training]
3. Quote: “Ajahn Chah was a wonderful teacher, but more important, he was a trainer. He trained people how to live.” [Teaching Dhamma] [Monastic life] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support]
Story: Māghā Pūjā at Wat Pah Pong. [Festival days] [Lunar observance days] [Wat Pah Pong] [Meditation] [Devotion to wakefulness] [Lay life] [Saṅgha]
4. Story: Thousands of people receive Ajahn Chah upon his return from England. [Gratitude] // [Almsround] [Lay life]
The sea of faith in Northeast Thailand. [Faith] [Culture/Thailand] [Poverty] [Culture/Natural environment] [Thai Forest Tradition] [Self-reliance] [Patience] [Teaching Dhamma] [Suffering]
In Central Thailand, lay people don’t come to the monastery on observance days. [Lunar observance days] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Tudong]
Story: A direct teaching to a man whose wife had died. [Fierce/direct teaching] [Death] [Grief]
5. Quote: “He really didn’t give us a lot of room to feed or problems and our neuroses and our desires and our attachments....That was an extraordinary gift.” [Teaching Dhamma] [Nutriment] [Suffering] [Delusion] [Craving] [Clinging] [Gratitude]
6. Ajahn Chah used the forest environment to train us. [Culture/Natural environment] [Teaching Dhamma] // [Pace of life]
Story: Two mating lizards fall out of a tree. [Almsround] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Animal] [Sensual desire] [Suffering]
1. Story: Ajahn Amaro tells his mother that he’s never eaten so well since he became a Buddhist monk. [Ajahn Amaro] [Food] [Monastic life]
2. Favorite verses of Ajahn Chah: “Buddhaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva-nibbānaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi.” [Mantra] [Ajahn Chah] [Three Refuges] [Nibbāna] // [Unwholesome Roots] [Ajahn Sundarā]
Quote: “Nibbāna is complete normality.” — Ajahn Chah [Naturalness]
3. Chanting instructions by Ajahn Sundarā. // [Mindfulness of breathing]
[Session] Chanting on Buddha, Dhamma and Saṇgha. [Three Refuges] [Nibbāna]
[Session] Reading: “Meditation” from Living Dhamma by Ajahn Chah, pp. 50-53. Read by Ajahn Jitindriyā.
“Cultivate the tree right from the seed.” [Similes] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma]
“To practice in a way that’s peaceful means to place the mind neither too high or too low, but at the point of balance.” [Middle Path] [Ajahn Chah]
“So many teachers, so many teachings.” [Teachers] [Doubt] [Meditation/Techniques]
“Where there is knowing, there is no need to think.” [Knowing itself] [Directed thought and evaluation] [Tranquility] [Mindfulness] [Discernment] [Proliferation]
“Resolve that right now is the time for training the mind and nothing else.” [Ardency] [Determination] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Body scanning] [Relinquishment] [Sense restraint]
“Sometimes there may be doubt, so you must have sati, to be the one who knows, continually following and examining the agitated mind.” [Continuity of mindfulness] [Restlessness and worry] [Heedfulness] [Concentration] [Feeling]
Simile: Chicken in a coop.
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Paul Breiter and Joseph Kappel. [Joseph Kappel] // [Ajahn Amaro] [Aruna Ratanagiri] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] [Wat Pah Nanachat]
2. Story: Ajahn Chah’s early life. // [Culture/Thailand] [Truth] [Leadership] [Ajahn Jayasaro]
3. Reading from the draft biography: Young Chah plays at being a monk. // [Ajahn Jayasaro] [Almsfood] [Five Precepts]
Reference: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 23
4. Reading from the draft biography: Chah decides to enter the village monastery at age nine. [Types of monks] [Monastic life/Motivation] // [Conditionality] [Conscience and prudence] [Truth] [Generosity] [Kamma] [Work]
Reference: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 25
5. Story: Novice Chah disrobes at age 16. [Novices] [Disrobing] // [Sensual desire] [Restlessness and worry]
6. Reading from the draft biography: Chah falls in love. [Relationships] // [Family] [Commerce/economics] [Restlessness and worry]
Reference: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 34
7. Story: Ajahn Chah ordains at age 20. [Ordination] // [Monastic life/Motivation] [Sense of urgency] [Forest versus city monks]
8. Reading from the draft biography: Ajahn Chah’s dying father asks him to remain in robes for life. [Sickness] [Recollection/Death] [Parents] [Monastic life] [Determination] // [Learning] [Culture/Thailand] [Unattractiveness] [Forest versus city monks] [Sutta] [Sense of urgency]
Quote: “I dedicate my body and mind, my whole life, to the practice of the Lord Buddha’s teachings in their entirety. I will realize the truth in this lifetime … I will let go of everything and follow the teachings. No matter how much suffering and difficulty I have to endure I will persevere, otherwise there will be no end to my doubts. I will make this life as even and continuous as a single day and night. I will abandon attachments to mind and body and follow the Buddha’s teachings until I know their truth for myself.” — Ajahn Chah [Buddha] [Dhamma] [Practicing in accordance with Dhamma] [Knowledge and vision] [Truth] [Relinquishment] [Suffering]
Reflection: Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 40 [Energy] [Doubt] [Continuity of mindfulness]
1. Reflections about the occasion. [Spiritual friendship] // [Joseph Kappel]
2. Learning to trust the next breath. [Trust] [Mindfulness of breathing] // [Restlessness and worry] [Present moment awareness]
3. What drew us to Ajahn Chah? [Association with people of integrity] // [Culture/West] [Three Refuges] [Teachers] [Media]
4. Ajahn Chah was the living embodiment of these teachings. [Dhamma] // [Buddha images] [Human] [Compassion]
Quote: “It’s like taking the church with you.”
5. Ajahn Chah taught us to speak without preparation. [Teaching Dhamma] // [Trust] [Human] [Noble Truth of Suffering] [Spaciousness]
6. Most people celebrate birth, but people should be crying. When people die, everyone grieves and sorrows, but they should be celebrating. Teaching of Ajahn Chah recollected by Joseph Kappel. [Birth] [Grief] [Death] [Happiness] // [Fierce/direct teaching]
7. Ajahn Chah could be with people where they are. [Compassion] [Present moment awareness]
8. Ajahn Chah emphasized sīla and precepts when teaching in the West. [Virtue] [Five Precepts] [Teaching Dhamma] [Culture/West] // [Communal harmony] [Meditation] [Sensual desire] [Long-term practice]
9. Reflection: Jumping off the Saṅgha ocean liner. [Saṅgha] [Similes] [Joseph Kappel] [Disrobing] // [Faith] [Five Precepts]
10. Ajahn Amaro introduces Paul Breiter and Joseph Kappel.
1. “What is the daily schedule like?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro and Joseph Kappel. [Monastic life] // [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Ajahn Amaro] [Joseph Kappel] [Chanting] [Meditation] [Almsround] [Work] [Abhayagiri] [Teaching Dhamma] [Upatakh]
2. Many of the most profound teachings happened under Ajahn Chah’s kuti. Reflection by Joseph Kappel. [Teaching Dhamma] [Shelter] // [Tranquility]
3. Story: “Sleep is delicious.” Told by Ajahn Amaro. [Admonishment/feedback] [Goodwill] // [Ajahn Amaro] [Joseph Kappel] [Upatakh] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Robes] [Mentoring] [Faith]
1. Teachings to Marjorie by Ajahn Chah, Part 2. Thai audio with English translation read by Kittisaro. [Thai audio] // [Dispassion] [Nibbāna] [Unconditioned] [Cessation of Suffering]
Continued from Part 1.
Reference: “Living with the Cobra,” Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 233.
Quote: “If the tears don’t come, we don’t really accept truth.” [Suffering] [Truth] [Wat Pah Pong]
Note: “Living with the Cobra” omits this quote and other more personal aspects of Ajahn Chah’s teaching to Marjorie.
2. Context of “Living with the Cobra.” Recollection by Ajahn Amaro. [Wat Pah Pong]
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Ṭhānissarā. [Ṭhānissarā] // [Ajahn Sundarā] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Sīladharā] [Gratitude]
2. Ajahn Amaro introduces Paul Breiter.
Quote: “There will probably be a book of Varapañño stories.”
Reference: One Monk, Many Masters by Paul Breiter (commercial)
3. Reflection: A profound sense of gratitude. [Gratitude] // [Monastic life]
4. Story: When I met Ajahn Chah. [Ṭhānissarā] // [Meditation retreats] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Personal presence] [Hearing the true Dhamma] [Liberation] [Happiness]
Story: Ajahn Chah bows to a small, neglected Buddha image in a secular meditation center and inspires Ṭhānissarā‘s faith. [Bowing] [Buddha images] [Perception of a samaṇa] [Human] [Faith]
Quote: “If you’ve been listening to this and you think this is good or you think this is bad, then you haven’t been listening properly.” — Ajahn Chah [Judgementalism] [Appropriate attention]
5. One of the fundamental aspects of Ajahn Chah’s teaching was to establish Right View. [Teaching Dhamma] [Right View] // [Views] [Direct experience]
6. Story: Ajahn Chah visits Ṭhānissarā‘s meditation community. [Ṭhānissarā] [Non-monastic centers] // [Idealism] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Pace of life] [Personal presence] [Saṃsāra] [Disenchantment] [Monastic life/Motivation]
7. One of Ajahn Chah’s main method was the monastic training. [Monastic life] [Teaching Dhamma] // [Suffering] [Direct experience] [Idealism] [Relinquishment]
8. Ajahn Chah encouraged us to work as Saṅgha, as community. [Monastic life] [Saṅgha] // [Culture/West] [Aversion]
9. Story: Ajahn Chah visits the Chithurst community and asks, “Is the community getting on well?” – “Yes.” – “Well there’s not going to be much wisdom here then, is there?” [Chithurst] [Saṅgha] [Communal harmony] [Discernment] // [Ajahn Sumedho]
10. Story: Applying Ajahn Chah’s teachings to lay life in South Africa. [Lay life] // [Monastic life] [Abuse/violence] [Self-reliance] [Discernment] [Compassion] [Spaciousness] [Liberation]
How would Ajahn Chah have responded to issues like feminism, democracy, engaged Buddhism, interfaith, and materialism that we’ve had to meet? [Women in Buddhism] [Politics and society] [Spiritual traditions] [Greed]
1. Reflection: From idealism to the way it is. [Idealism] [Equanimity] // [Culture/Thailand] [Culture/West] [Suffering] [Delusion] [Aversion]
Story: A Thai monk’s perspective on worldly stupidity. [Military]
Quote: “Someone with that kind of pure presence is really a mirror.” [Personal presence] [Teaching Dhamma]
2. I was the first Westerner at Wat Pah Pong. [Wat Pah Pong] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] // [Military] [Culture/Thailand] [Aversion] [Rains retreat] [Types of monks]
3. “When I went to stay with Luang Por Chah, he said, ‘Don’t read anything.’” [Learning] // [Abhidhamma] [Rains retreat] [Meditation]
4. “His way of teaching was direct....He would use the essential teaching of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths.” [Teaching Dhamma] [Four Noble Truths] // [Noble Truth of Suffering] [Human] [Culture/Thailand] [Ageing] [Sickness] [Death] [Spiritual traditions] [Self-identity view]
Quote: “It’s the suffering that awakens you.” — Ajahn Chah [Suffering] [Liberation]
5. Story: “Sumedho, Wat Pah Pong, is it suffering?” [Wat Pah Pong] [Suffering] // [Lunar observance days] [Work] [Monastic crafts] [Aversion] [Cleanliness]
Quote: “To want something that’s not present, something you don’t have, is suffering.” [Craving] [Cause of Suffering] [Culture/Natural environment] [Saṅgha] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Culture/West]
6. “It wasn’t just suffering that Luang Por [Chah] was pointing to, but also non-suffering.” [Suffering] [Cessation of Suffering] // [Relinquishment] [Clinging] [Knowing itself]
7. Quote: “When I saw Luang Por Chah when he had his stroke, I felt an almost unbearable sense of grief and loss. Then I remembered, ‘This is the way it is.’” [Sickness] [Grief] [Equanimity] // [Faith] [Aversion] [Relinquishment]
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Ajahn Mahaprasert and Ajahn Sundarā. [Ajahn Sundarā] // [Wat Pah Pong] [Wat Tam Saeng Pet] [Learning] [Abhayagiri] [Spirit Rock]
2. “My life has been hugely impacted by Ajahn Chah, his teachings, and the spiritual family he introduced me to.” [Gratitude] [Teaching Dhamma] [Saṅgha] // [Happiness] [Teachers] [Learning] [Respect for elders] [Meditation retreats] [Body scanning] [Conceit] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Goodwill] [Humility] [Mentoring]
Story: Ajahn Chah sniffs around like a dog. [Kittisaro] [Similes] [Humor] [Mindfulness of breathing]
Quote: “He gave me a practice path that goes on and on to this day.” [Eightfold Path]
1. My contact with Ajahn Chah is through meeting Ajahn Sumedho. [Ajahn Sundarā] [Ajahn Sumedho] // [Faith] [Monastic life]
2. Story: Ajahn Chah tells a novice to catch a chicken. [Animal] [Humor]
3. Story: Ajahn Sundarā stays with a nun who lived at Wat Pah Pong with Ajahn Chah. [Ajahn Sundarā] [Mae Chee] [Wat Pah Pong]
Story: The first nun at Wat Pah Pong. [Artistic expression] [Determination] [Sequence of training] [Eight Precepts]
Story: The Wat Pah Pong nuns go pindapat. [Almsround]
Quote: “Does anyone find having nuns around difficult?” – “Yes.” – “Well, you can go then.” — Ajahn Chah [Pāṭimokkha] [Women in Buddhism]
Story: A woman brings only enough food for the monks, so Ajahn Chah asks the nuns to chant the blessing. [Generosity] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support] [Chanting] [Fierce/direct teaching]
Ajahn Chah’s inner freedom. [Liberation] [Courage] [Conventions] [Unconditioned] [Teaching Dhamma] [Dhamma books] [Personal presence]
The confidence to be totally yourself. [Faith] [Self-reliance] [Gratitude] [Ajahn Chah lineage] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Aversion]
4. Story: Half a million people attend Ajahn Chah’s funeral. [Funerals] [Ajahn Sundarā] // [Food] [Free distribution] [Meditation] [Stupas/monuments] [Chanting]
Quote: “The heart of [Ajahn Chah’s] teaching is the ability to bring people together.” [Teaching Dhamma] [Saṅgha] [Community]
Story: The cremation pyre catches fire and number 16 wins the lottery. [Humor]
1. “How did Ajahn Chah relate to the lay community around him and tailor the Dharma to their own circumstances?” Answered by Ajahn Sumedho and Ṭhānissarā. [Lay life] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support]
Story: Thai villagers tell Ajahn Sumedho that they never understood Buddhism until they met Luang Por Chah. Told by Ajahn Sumedho. [Culture/Thailand] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Hearing the true Dhamma] [Monastic life] [Generosity] [Meditation] [Community] [Family] [Mindfulness]
Quote: “He didn’t respond to the external cues but went to the heart and grabbed you in that way.” — Ṭhānissarā [Conventions] [Fierce/direct teaching] [Not-self]
1. In the Vinaya (monastic discipline) there’s no role of abbot. Reflection by Ajahn Amaro. [Vinaya] [Abbot] [Saṅgha decision making] // [Respect] [Confession]
2. “How are conflicts between [audio unclear] resolved?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. [Conflict] [Monastic life] // [Admonishment/feedback]
1. The vicar Christopher Boxley is still an avid supporter of Chithurst. Comment by Ajahn Amaro. [Christianity] // [Ajahn Sucitto]
2. “I noticed a monk cutting a tree [in The Buddha Comes to Sussex]. Isn’t that against the Pāṭimokkha?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Pāṭimokkha] [Vinaya]
3. “How is the relationship between Chithurst Monastery and the local community now? What about other branch monasteries?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Community] [Western Ajahn Chah monasteries] // [Conflict] [Vinaya] [Almsround] [Goodwill] [Tudong]
4. Stories about the people who criticized Chithurst Monastery in the early days. Told by Joseph Kappel and Ajahn Amaro. [Conflict] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Ajahn Anando] [Culture/West] [Communal harmony]
5. “What about the relationship with the evangelical [in The Buddha Comes to Sussex]?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Christianity]
6. “How many nuns are in the [community]?” Answered by Ajahn Sundarā. [Sīladharā]
7. “Everything that’s placed in your bowl... [audio unclear]?” Answered by Ajahn Sundarā and Ajahn Amaro. [Almsfood] // [Killing] [Eating after noon] [Medicinal requisites]
1. Chanting: Morning Chanting offered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Chanting] [Three Refuges]
Reference: Amaravati Chanting Book, p. 2
1. Ajahn Amaro explains the structure of the second day.
2. Guided meditation offered by Ajahn Sundarā. [Meditation] // [Posture/Sitting] [Body scanning] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Present moment awareness]
1. Introduction to the reading by Ajahn Amaro. [Joseph Kappel]
2. Context of the reading: walking into Wat Pah Pong. Reflection by Joseph Kappel. // [Joseph Kappel] [Wat Pah Pong] [Culture/Natural environment] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Shelter] [Posture/Walking] [Dōgen] [Ajahn Amaro]
3. “Learning to Listen.” Teaching by Ajahn Chah. Translated and read by Joseph Kappel. [Learning] [Hearing the true Dhamma] // [Present moment awareness] [Teaching Dhamma] [Questions] [Buddha] [Continuity of mindfulness] [Unconditioned]
1. Ajahn Amaro introduces Kittisaro, Ṭhānissarā, and Paul Breiter. [Kittisaro] [Ṭhānissarā] // [Sutta] [Ajahn Amaro] [Recreation/leisure/sport] [Learning] [Ajahn Sumedho] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] [Disrobing] [Zen] [Vajrayāna]
Reference: Being Dharma by Ajahn Chah (commercial)
2. Did Ajahn Chah train Thais and Westerners differently? [Culture/West] [Culture/Thailand] [Monastic life] // [Teaching Dhamma] [Suffering] [Compassion]
In my contact with Ajahn Chah, he tended to be very loving and very kind. [Kittisaro] [Goodwill]
3. Story: Kittisaro’s parents visit Wat Pah Pong. [Kittisaro] [Parents] [Wat Pah Pong] // [Culture/West] [Learning] [Monastic life] [Renunciation] [Fear] [Cults] [Children] [Ordination] [Compassion]
Quote: “Wanting your parents to understand is suffering.” — Ajahn Sumedho [Ajahn Sumedho] [Family] [Suffering]
Quote: “The Communists you really need to be concerned about, the ones who can really hurt you, are the ones who hide inside your own heart.” [Politics and society] [Unwholesome Roots]
4. Stories: The Chipmunk Story and The Donkey Story. [Kittisaro] [Depression] [Humor] [Similes] // [Recreation/leisure/sport] [Perfectionism] [Meditation] [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Sickness] [Animal] [Learning] [Health care] [Self-identity view] [Joseph Kappel] [Compassion] [Energy] [Right Effort] [Equanimity] [Lawfulness]
1. How much Ajahn Chah affected our lives. // [Culture/West]
2. I was the first Westerner, so he gave me an enormous amout of attention for the first two or three years. [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Mentoring] // [Ajahn Mahā Amorn] [Other Thai Forest teachers] [Pāṭimokkha] [Conceit] [Truth] [Compassion] [Humor]
Story: Venerable Varapañño chants the Pāṭimokkha better than Ajahn Sumedho. [Competitiveness] [Jealousy]
Note: The story that Ajahn Sumedho didn’t tell is probably told in Stillness Flowing by Ajahn Jayasaro, p. 189.
3. Comment: Even the monastic life can be competitive. [Monastic life] [Competitiveness] // [Posture/Sitting] [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Culture/West] [Conceit]
4. When I first went there, the town monks were very critical of Ajahn Chah. [Forest versus city monks] [Wat Pah Pong] [Aversion] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Rains retreat] [Forgiveness] [Jealousy] [History/Thai Buddhism] [Ajahn Mun]
5. Story: Ajahn Chah orders Ajahn Sumedho to stay in England for five years. [Ajahn Sumedho] [History/Western Buddhist monasticism] // [Determination]
Story: The Kaṭhina that Ajahn Sumedho didn’t want to attend. [Kaṭhina] [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Harsh speech]
6. Comment: Ajahn Chah is now mutually admired by both sects. [Thai sects] [Respect] [Culture/Thailand] // [Funerals] [Perception of a samaṇa]
7. Qualities of Ajahn Chah’s speech. [Right Speech] // [Malicious speech] [Thai sects] [Fierce/direct teaching] [Trust] [Humor] [Goodwill] [Present moment awareness]
8. Quote: “Luang Por Chah always allowed margins for differences and for practice.” [Conventions] [Monastic life] // [Western Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Attachment to rites and rituals]
1. “Why was Ajahn Chah not allowed to ordain monks and ostracized?” Answered by Ajahn Sumedho. [Ordination] // [History/Thai Buddhism] [Monastic titles] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Saṅgha]
2. “Why did Ajahn Chah found Wat Pah Pong?” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Wat Pah Pong] [History/Thai Buddhism] // [Tudong] [Teaching Dhamma] [Personal presence] [Seclusion] [Compassion] [Family] [Mutual lay/Saṅgha support]
Story: The first Rains Retreat with Ajahn Chah. [Rains retreat] [Devotion to wakefulness]
3. Question related to age and ordination (audio unclear). Answered by Ajahn Sumedho. [Ordination] [Older monks] // [Culture/Thailand] [Meditation] [Mae Chee] [Relationships] [Liberation] [Culture/West]
Story: A doctor ordains later in life. Told by Ajahn Amaro. [Health care]
4. Story: A hit man hired to kill Ajahn Chah ordains instead. Told by Ajahn Amaro. [Crime] [Killing] [Ordination] // [Older monks]
5. Teachings hanging in the trees at Wat Pay Pong. Recollection by Ajahn Amaro. [Wat Pah Pong] [Culture/Natural environment] [Teaching Dhamma]