Sunday, January 12, 2020

Ajahn Brahm: Seven Steps to Heaven (video)

Ajahn Brahm, Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Dec. 16, 7:00 PM; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly


The Jhanas: Seven Steps to Heaven (and One Beyond)
Ajahn Brahm (formally Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on August 7, 1951. He came out of a working class background and won a scholarship to study theoretical physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge, he taught high school for one year then travelled to Thailand to become a Theravada Buddhist monk. He trained with the famous enlightened teacher Ajahn Chah (Bodhinyana Mahathera).

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