12. Story: Ajahn Chah to Jack Kornfield, “Did I heal her?” Told by Jack Kornfield. [Jack Kornfield] [Sickness] [Health] [Protective chants] [Ajahn Chah] [Teaching Dhamma] [Healing] // [Wat Pah Pong] [Truth]
4. Story: Ajahn Anando tries to heal Ajahn Chah. Told by Ajahn Amaro. [Ajahn Anando] [Healing] [Ajahn Chah] // [Ajahn Sumedho] [Sickness] [Fierce/direct teaching]
26. “The quality of breath can change to very light, creating some pleasant changes like pain control. To what extent can breath be manipulated? Doesn’t pure awareness act as an agent of change as well? What is the difference? Is the the source of self-healing?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Mindfulness of breathing] [Pain] [Knowing itself] [Healing] // [Tranquility]
Story: A 102-year-old monk falls in the bathroom then completely heals his head injury in one day. [Bhante Dharmawara] [Wat Pah Pong] [Sickness] [Healing] [Nimitta]
5. “I enjoyed the story of the healing green light used by the Thai venerable you shared with us yesterday, and I also enjoyed the teachings of Ajahn Tate this morning. But then I’m wondering if the very act of trying to ‘heal this body’ or ‘clarify and brighten this mind’ acts to pull the heart out of neutral and into the world of grasping and desire. Could you please clarify this?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Bhante Dharmawara] [Healing] [Ajahn Tate] [Right Effort] [Clinging] // [Cause of Suffering] [Discernment] [Learning] [Relinquishment] [Buddha/Biography]
Sutta: DN 16.2.23: The Buddha heals his illness. [Sickness] [Healing]
Quote: “The crux of it is how to live with non-clinging as the foundation.”
2. Discussion of beneficial effects of prayer even without an external entity to which it is directed. [Prayer] [Healing] [God] // [Culture/Sri Lanka]
Story: A threatening storm disappears the same night Rev. Heng Sure leads chanting for the Mississippi pilgrims. Told by Ajahn Jotipālo. [Ajahn Jotipālo] [Tudong] [Rev. Heng Sure] [Mantra]
6. “With development (bhavana), is one able to shape the course of sickness or heal oneself to a degree?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation] [Sickness] [Healing] // [Happiness] [Medicinal requisites]
13. “I remember reading some stories of Ajahn Chah teaching lay people about herbal medicines. I know some Tibetan monks practice medicine. Is there such a tradition in Thailand? Are there any stores of Ajahn Chah healing people physically with traditional medicines?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Health care] [Medicinal requisites ] [Culture/Thailand] [Healing] // [Thai Forest Tradition] [History/Thai Buddhism] [Vinaya] [Right Livelihood] [Almsfood]
Recollection: Walking around the forest with Ajahn Chah. [Culture/Natural environment]
Story: Bung Wai villagers walk to Wat Pah Pong to practice meditation all night on Wan Phra. [Wat Pah Nanachat] [Wat Pah Pong] [Lunar observance days] [Monastic routine] [Meditation]
Story: Por Am argues with Ajahn Chah for three days. [Doubt] [Precepts]
Story: Ajahn Chah teaches Por Am to be a herbal doctor so he can keep the precepts.
Recollection: The hunter-gatherer culture of Northeast Thailand. [Food] [Agriculture] [Killing] [Geography/Thailand]
8. “Can we approach chanting as praying for someone in a difficult situation?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Prayer] [Christianity] [Family] [Healing] [Chanting] // [Skillful qualities] [Compassion] [Right Intention] [Merit] [Abhayagiri] [Nature of the cosmos]
9. “How can you use chanting to work with long-term physical pain and other people’s healing?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Pain] [Healing] [Chanting ] // [Tranquility] [Concentration] [Fear] [Release]