Knowing and Seeing: Pa Auk Forest Monastery

Bhante Subhuti, live from Pa Auk, Burma, 10/27/15; Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha launched a forest tradition of wandering ascetics letting go and awakening.

Knowing and Seeing: Pa Auk Forest Monastery

(American Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Subhuti)  Life at Pa Auk Forest Monastery in Mawlamyine, Burma is enlightening. This film was originally made for my brother in 2005 from a silent 55-minute video shot by a group from England in 2003.

If it seems at all longwinded or for people with long attention spans, have a look at the original.

As I was recording the audio commentary, "Um, this is the clinic," a friend told me to add background sound for atmosphere. There later came a script with a "narrator's voice." I was doing the best I could do to sound professional and detached.

It is all to give a glimpse of this remarkable place, where people really come and become enlightened.