The Great Awakened Monk: Ajahn Jumnien

Gwendolyn, there's something most extraordinary about this one. - I know it! - Yeah, be good.

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Who can fathom another's greatness?

Ajahn Jumnien Silaseetho (Jamnian Seelasetho) is a charismatic Thai Buddhist monk -- happy, wise, and playful. He teaches with limitless energy and boundless love and compassion. [He is not like any attained monk you are likely to have met.]

He teaches many different Buddhist insight meditation methods (vipassana), all of which direct the practitioner back to clear seeing and understanding the impersonal processes of mind and body.

• Short Teachings (jamnian.org)

Richard Gere, Ajahn Jumnien, Borobudur, Java

They are in flux, ever changing, unsatisfactory, and empty of self (ego or personality to cling to).

He encourages those who practice toward awakening to continuously explore the presence of craving and aversion in the heart/mind.

Sacred Ven. Jumnien amulet

He tells us every situation is an opportunity to practice “steering ourselves back to the Middle Path.”

A living meditation practice, one in which the development of insight pervades every aspect of our life rather than just the hours devoted to formal meditation, is a “lifelong process of constant observation and continuous investigation.”

ABOUT: Jamnian.org (reference site) is created with the auspicious blessings of Luang Por Jamnian to serve as a central hub for communicating Luang Por’s teachings and activities as he teaches around the world.

How does the great Ajahn teach the Dhamma? (jamnian.org)

Dwell not on hurt feelings.

COMMENTARY: We realize our utter powerlessness to convince anyone that Ajahn Jumnien is special, different, perhaps unique in the world -- not only awakened but possessing things people no longer possess. What could that be? In times past, people could be fully awakened. (Fully is not supremely; they are different. The awakening of a disciple is not equal to that of either a silent-buddha or teaching-buddha. What Ajahn has is full awakening with powers no longer prevalent on this plane.

On top of that he has the most miraculous power there is, one the Buddha possessed, "the power of instruction."

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He is able to teach the Dharma, to bring about an awakening in others. His candor is extraordinary. His disguise is his silliness, going about like a shaman in the world with so much weight of tchotchkes and magical amulets on him that no one is able to take him seriously as anything but a monk who is too happy, laughs too much. But, oh, if one can listen to what he is really saying, about the extraordinary and ordinary, the magical and mundane, who would believe? See him.

Who says so? Wisdom Quarterly says so, and long before us Jack Kornfield (jackkornfield.com) says so in Living Buddhist Masters. But who could believe that either he or we actually met incredible beings of such skill in Dhamma?

• Ajahn Jumnien Dhamma quotes (jamnian.org)