Ajahn Chah: Detachment within activity

Ajahn Chah - Detachment Within Activity (1983dukkha)

Thai Fest by the Beach, LA (9/20-21)

Dance of the Muay Thai

SANTA MONICA, California - Join the Happy Weekend outside of Thailand. Bangkok has a twin city with eerily similar long-form names, and it's "the City of Angels," Los Angeles, home to a large and vibrant Thai Buddhist community. The 2025 delicious celebration of Thai food and culture runs through the weekend on the iconic Santa Monica Pier above PCH in coastal Los Angeles. Bring friends and family to enjoy unforgettable memories at Thai Fest by the Beach (Thai Fest by the Beach). It is not just a food fest, but it's where food, culture, and fun unite in harmony to create an extraordinary experience for everyone. What does Thai Fest by the Beach offer? Discover what makes Thai Fest a one-of-a-kind experience — with incredible food, vibrant performances, and fun activities for all ages. More

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(The Urban Foreigner) Thai Fest by the Beach - Santa Monica Pier 2025! 🇹🇭, Los Angeles

Tale of Two Cities' [Names]

Bangkok (or L.A. East) rocks!

Bangkok's ceremonial name came into use during the reign of King Mongkut [e][12]. The full name reads [20][f]:

Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์).

• The full name of Los Angeles (according to the Guinness Book of World Records) is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula [30] or "The City of Our Lady [the Virgin Mary] the Queen of the Angels by the River Porciuncula" [29] ("City of Angels"). The original name of the settlement is disputed. Other sources have shortened (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, "The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels") or have alternate versions of the longer name [31] established by the Townspeople or Los Pobladores. More

LA is bigger than Hollywood

This name is composed of Pali (the exclusively Buddhist language of the Buddha, also known as Magadhi, where the Buddha lived) and Sanskrit root-words.

It translates as [20]: "The City of Angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the Nine Gems, seat of the King, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra [Sakka]'s behest."

The name is listed in Guinness World Records as the world's longest place name at 168 letters [21][g].

Sakka is Indra is St. Michael

Many Thais who recall the full name do so because of its use in the 1989 song "Krung Thep Maha Nakhon" by Thai rock band Asanee–Wasan, the lyrics of which consist entirely of the city's full name, repeated throughout the song [22].

Today, the city is officially known in Thai by a shortened form of the full ceremonial name, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร), which is colloquially further shortened to Krung Thep (กรุงเทพฯ) or the initialism Ko Tho Mo (กทม.). Krung กรุง is a Thai word of Khmer origin [23], meaning "capital, king" [24], while thep (เทพ) is from Pali/Sanskrit deva, meaning "deity," "angel," or "god."

The Big Mango = Bangkok, Thailand

The name of Bangkok is more commonly translated as "City of Angels," which is also used to draw comparisons with Los Angeles in the United States, a comparably sized city with similar traffic issues [25].

Another nickname sometimes used to refer to the city is The Big Mango, a tongue-in-cheek comparison to The Big Apple for New York City [26]. More

Our Real Home: On Dying (Ajahn Chah)

Our Real Home: A Talk to an Aging Lay Disciple Approaching Death

Ajahn Chah (translated from the Thai by The Sangha at Wat Pah Nanachat © 1994)

Ajahn Chah was regarded as an arahant.

Now determine in your mind to listen with respect to the Dhamma. During the time that I am speaking, be as attentive to my words as if it were the Lord Buddha himself sitting in front of you.

Close your eyes and make yourself comfortable, compose your mind and make it one-pointed. Humbly allow the Triple Gem [Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha] of wisdom, truth, and purity to abide in your heart as a way of showing respect to the Fully Enlightened One.

Today I have brought nothing material of any substance to offer you, only Dhamma, the teachings of the Lord Buddha. Listen well. You should understand that even the Buddha himself, with his great store of accumulated virtue, could not avoid physical death.

When he reached old age, he relinquished his body and let go of its heavy burden. Now you too must learn to be satisfied with the many years you've already depended on your body.

You should feel that it's enough.

You can compare it to household utensils you've had for a long time — your cups, saucers, plates, and so on. When you first had them, they were clean and shining, but now after using them for so long, they're starting to wear out.

Some are already broken, some have disappeared and those that are left are deteriorating; they have no stable form, and it's their nature to be like that. Your body is the same way — it's been continually changing right from the day you were born, through childhood and youth, until now it's reached old age. You must accept that.

The Buddha said that conditions (sankharas), whether they are internal conditions, bodily conditions, or external conditions, are not-self, their nature is to change. Contemplate this truth until you see it clearly.

This very lump of flesh that lies here in decline is saccadhamma, the truth. The truth of this body is saccadhamma, and it is the unchanging teaching of the Buddha. The Buddha taught us to look at the body, to contemplate it, and come to terms with its nature.

We must be able to be at peace with the body, whatever state it is in. The Buddha taught that we should ensure that it's only the body that is locked up in jail and not let the mind be imprisoned along with it.

Now as your body begins to run down and deteriorate with age, don't resist that, but don't let your mind deteriorate with it. Keep the mind separate.

Give energy to the mind by realizing the truth of the way things are. The Lord Buddha taught that this is the nature of the body, it can't be any other way: having been born it gets old and sick and then it dies. This is a great truth you are presently encountering. Look at the body with wisdom and realize it. More

Bear Awareness: Wild Mind (Ajahn Brahm)

Seeing sexiness everywhere, even a bear becomes plush and eroticized. Help, Ajahn Brahm!

I didn't tame my wild mind. It led to pregnancy and these two knuckleheads I'd kill to protect.

Bear Awareness: Questions and Answers on Taming Your Wild Mind

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Bear Awareness: Wild Mind

British Theravada Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm has 4.8 out of 5 stars with 79 ratings.

The bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and one of the world’s most beloved Buddhist monks answers meditators’ questions.

In Bear Awareness Englishman monk Ajahn Brahm answers actual questions from his meditation students––questions other sitters may have had as well.

Kindfulness with mindfulness for fullness.

While most mindfulness meditation teachers praise the benefits of "bare awareness," he teaches BEAR awareness. Huh? He helps us make friends with the scary things that come up on the cushion, and he knows how to lift the mood with a well-placed stuffed teddy––or a well-timed pun.

The intimacy of the question-and-answer format provides a fresh experience of learning from a master meditator.

Whether Ajahn Brahm is urging readers to fly Buddha Air (sit back and relax on the way to nirvana), giving tips for dealing with panic attacks or depression, or extolling the bliss of meditation that is better than sex, he gives us permission to enjoy our lives and our kindful and joyful practice. More (Amazon.com)

• Ajahn Brahm (BSWA.org), Nov. 2017; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mindful Way: Theravada Ajahn Chah

The Mindful Way | documentary on Theravada Buddhism | Ajahn Chah

(Dhamma Source) This BBC documentary, made in 1977, shows the daily life in the main Theravada Buddhist monastery of Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org), Wat Pah Pong, in Ubon Rachathani, Northeast Thailand (Isan).

Ajahn Chah was Ven. Chah Subhaddo (Thai ชา สุภัทโท), occasionally with the honorific titles Luang Por and Phra. He is also known by his honorific name "Phra Bodhiñāṇathera" (Thai พระโพธิญาณเถร [1], Chao Khun Bodhinyana Thera [2]). He was an enlightened Buddhist monk (June 17, 1918–January 16, 1992 [3]) famous for effectively being able to teach Westerners.

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  Why is this man happy?

  To state that he was "enlightened" is to say he was a "noble one" (ariyan), which is to say he experienced a "change of lineage" from "ordinary uninstructed worldling" to enlightened one by attaining any of the various stages of awakening from stream entry to arhatship. (We normally say there are four stages, but there are more according to the Path to Freedom (Vimuttimagga), which distinguishes various kinds of stream enterers). In the case of Ajahn Chah, he is presumed to have been an arahant, which means "fully enlightened." This, sadly, is said of monks just for being wise, or longstanding members of the Monastic Sangha, or has good moral behavior, or out of respect for one's teacher, or misunderstanding what enlightenment (bodhi) literally means and implies. The term should not be thrown around lightly because it is very rare; the opposite mistake is also made of never using it as if it no longer existed in the world, which it does. The belief that it doesn't exist is considered wrong view (miccha ditthi), though logic dictates that one day that will be true and there will be no more arhats in the world (but maybe still some stream enterers) so long as the Dharma is still in the world.

He was an influential teacher of the Buddha Dhamma (Buddhist Doctrine or Dharma) and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition. Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he was also instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism (and the popular practice of vipassana or "insight meditation" rooted in systematic mindfulness practice from the Maha Satipatthana Sutta) in the West.

Beginning in 1979 with the founding of Cittaviveka (commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery) [4] in the United Kingdom, the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah has spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the British Commonwealth. The Dhamma talks of Ajahn Chah have been recorded, transcribed, and translated into several languages. Read more about Theravada Buddhism on Dhammasource.com. Rights owned or controlled by The Open University.

• Ajahn Chah, The Mindful Way, via Dhamma Source, July 26, 2021; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

In the forest of meditation (video)

True Little Monk (short video documentary, July 21 2018); TEXT by Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato and Ellie Askew, edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Here is a rare documentary about Ajahn Chah's Thai meditation center for Westerners, the "International Forest Monastery" (Wat Pah Nanachat) in Ubon Ratchathani, Northeast Thailand from True Little Monk: The Wisdom Training Program for Novices.

There are two kinds of suffering....become free.

Westerners are generally in a hurry. So they experience greater extremes of happiness and suffering. The fact that they have much defilement (kilesā) can be a source of wisdom later on.

To live the lay life and practice Dharma (Pali Dhamma), one must be in the world but must rise and remain above it. Virtue (sīla), which begins with the basic Five Precepts, is the all-important parent of all good things.

It is for removing all wrong from the mind/heart, removing that which causes agitation and distress. When these basic things are gone, the heart/mind will always be in a state of serene mental coherence (samādhi).

At first, the basic thing is to make virtue really firm. Practice formal meditation when there is the opportunity. Sometimes it will be good, sometimes not. Don’t worry about it, just continue.

If doubts arise, just realize that they, like everything else in the mind, are impermanent.

From this base, mental coherence (samādhi) will come, but not yet wisdom. One must watch the mind at work -- see like and dislike arising from sense contact [with the pleasant and unpleasant things], and not attach to or reject them.

Let’s not be anxious for results or sudden progress. An infant first crawls then learns to walk then to run.

When one is fully grown and able to run, one can travel half way around the world to Thailand [to practice in forest meditation centers like Wat Pah Nanachat].

Theory vs. Experience (Ajahn Chah)

Master Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ellie Askew and Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

I get it. Yeah, this'll work! I've memorized the lists, understood, and I'm ready to start.

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Don't be too stiff (serious) nor too lax.

Practice with unflinching dedication! If anyone wants to practice Dharma then please try not to think too much.

If we’re meditating and we find ourselves trying to force specific results then it’s better to stop.

When our mind settles and becomes peaceful and we think, "That’s it! That’s it, isn’t it? Is that it?" then stop.

Take all that analytical and theoretical knowledge, wrap it up, and store it away in a locked chest. And don’t drag it out to discuss or teach. That’s not the type of knowledge that penetrates inside. Theory and experience are different types of knowledge.

Ah, this is a much better way to sit and sleep.

When the reality of something is seen, it’s not the same as any written description.

For example, let’s say we write the words "sensual craving." When "sensual craving" actually floods in and overwhelms the heart/mind, it’s impossible that the written word had any ability to convey the meaning of the reality.

It’s the same with the word "anger." We can write the letters on a blackboard, but when we’re actually angry, the experience is different. We can’t read the letters we've written fast enough when the heart becomes engulfed with rage.

You said you wouldn't get angry any more. - STFU!

This is an extremely important point. The theoretical Buddhist teaching is accurate, but it’s essential to bring it into our hearts. It must be internalized.

If the Dharma isn’t brought into the heart, it’s not truly known. It’s not actually seen.

How do I get enlightened?

Relax. Pushing is NOT the way to meditate.

Directly knowing-and-seeing is at the heart of successful Buddhist practice.

Paradoxically, it is accomplished by not thinking too much and not trying too hard. Instead, go easy and keep going.

The Buddha said it very beautifully using the analogy of how he himself crossed the "great flood" samsara to reach the great peace nirvana. They are not the same thing, though it may be useful to think so or tell oneself so.

We already are, in a sense, all we are capable of being, so long as we keep striving in a balanced way because we certainly do not yet realize what we are capable of. See Crossing the Flood.

In another very powerful analogy, the Buddha teaches a lute player that just as he cannot make beautiful music if his strings are either too tight or too loose, so a meditator cannot succeed if s/he is too stiff or too lazy. The secret is balanced effort and persistence.

• AUDIO: Balance Spiritual Urgency with Serene Calm
• Happiness is not the destination; happiness is the way

When it's time to die and you're next (audio)

Ajahn Jayasaro, "Our Real Home: A Talk to an Aging Lay Disciple Approaching Death" by Ajahn Chah, Sangha at Wat Pah Nanachat (trans.), 1983dukkha, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (2012), a complete collection of talks translated into English, recorded by Abbot Ajahn Amaro, Amaravati, England.

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This body is hurtling toward destruction.

Now determine in your mind to listen with respect to the Dhamma (the Dharma, the Buddha's Teaching). During the time that I am speaking, be as attentive to my words as if it were the Buddha himself sitting in front of you.

Close your eyes and make yourself comfortable, compose your mind, and make it one-pointed. Humbly allow the Triple Gem of wisdom, truth, and purity to abide in your heart as a way of showing respect to the Fully Enlightened One.

"We practice to learn letting go." - Ajahn Chah

Today I have brought nothing material of any substance to offer you, only Dhamma, the teachings of the Buddha. Listen well. You should understand that even the Buddha himself, with his great store of accumulated virtue [good karma], could not avoid physical death.

When he reached old age he relinquished his body and let go of its heavy burden. Now you, too, must learn to be satisfied with the many years you've already depended on your body. You should feel that it's enough.

You can compare it to household utensils you've had for a long time — your cups, saucers, plates, and so on. When you first had them they were clean and shining, but now after using them for so long, they're starting to wear out. Some are already broken, some have disappeared, and those that are left are deteriorating. They have no stable form, and it's their nature to be like that.

Your body is the same way: It's been continually changing right from the day you were born, through childhood and youth, until now it's reached old age. You must accept that. The Buddha said that conditions (sankharas), whether they are internal conditions, bodily conditions, or external conditions, are not-self (impersonal), their nature is to change. Contemplate this truth until you see it clearly.

One day, black and blue, this body is a log.

This very lump of flesh that lies here in decline is sacca-dhamma, the truth. The truth of this body is sacca-dhamma, and it is the unchanging teaching of the Buddha. The Buddha taught us to look at the body, to contemplate it and come to terms with its nature.

We must be able to be at peace with the body, whatever state it is in. The Buddha taught that we should ensure that it's only the body that is locked up in jail and not let the mind be imprisoned along with it.

Now as your body begins to run down and deteriorate with age, don't resist that, but don't let your mind deteriorate with it. Keep the mind separate. Give energy to the mind by realizing the truth of the way things are.

The Buddha taught that this is the nature of the body. It can't be any other way: Having been born, it gets old and sick, and then it dies. This is a great truth you are presently encountering. Look at the body with wisdom and realize it.

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, England

Even if your house is flooded or burnt to the ground, whatever the danger that threatens it, let it concern only the house. If there's a flood, don't let it flood your mind. If there's a fire, don't let it burn your heart. Let it be merely the house, which is external to you, that is flooded and burnt. Allow the mind to let go of attachments.

The time is ripe. You've been alive a long time. More

Wise words from a British monk (video)

Ajahn Jayasaro via Culture Exchange Blog; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

A stupa in the mist, Amaravati (Jake Barnes)

Ajahn Jayasaro (born Shaun Michael Chiverton) is a British monk who trained with the famous Thai forest tradition Meditation Master Ajahn Chah.

Ven. Jayasaro was at Amaravati, a Theravada Buddhist monastic center in England, when he delivered this talk: "Your Ultimate Classroom is Here and Now."

Stillness Flowing (Jayasaro)

It is slow, calming, and remarkable for its depth of wisdom and the usefulness of its advice. It's easy for us to start meditating in a way that is ineffective. Then a little advice from the heart puts us back on track.

The talk begins with a quote from Chekov who once ended a message, "I'm sorry this is such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a shorter one." Brevity and editing are the heart of wisdom.

He then quotes Ajahn Chah: "You have to bring your heart to the Dhamma (Dharma). You don't bring the Dhamma to your heart." You don't pick and choose. There is a subtle difference of great significance.

• READ FREE: Stillness Flowing (abhayagiri.org)

Give time sitting as an offering to the Buddha

We gave the Buddha many things. What he wanted was for us to practice what he taught.

Ajahn Chah: practice is most important thing

Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org), Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why is there aversion/attraction?

The practice is thus the most important thing. In my [Ajahn Chah] own practice, I didn't spend all my time studying theoretical descriptions of mind (cittas) and mental factors (cetasikas).

Instead, I watched "that which knows." When the mind had thoughts of aversion I asked, "Why is there aversion?" When there was attraction I asked, "Why is there attraction?" This is the way to practice.

I didn't know all the finer points of theory (the Dhamma) or go into a detailed analytical breakdown of the mind and mental factors (Abhi-Dhamma). I just kept prodding at that one point in the mind until I was able to settle the whole issue of aversion and attraction and make it completely vanish.

Whatever happened, if I could bring my mind/heart to the point where it stopped liking and disliking, it had gone, gone beyond suffering. It had reached the point where it could remain at ease, whatever it was experiencing. There was no craving or attachment...it had stopped.

Ajahn Chah became an enlightened one.

This is what we're aiming for in practice. If other people want to talk a lot about theory, that's their business. In the end, however much we talk about it, the practice has to come back to this point.

Even if you don't talk much about it, the practice still comes back to this point. Whether we proliferate a lot or a little, it all comes back to this. If there is rebirth, it comes from this. If there is extinction [of all ignorance], this is where the extinction occurs.

However much the mind proliferates, it doesn't make any difference. The Buddha called this place "that which knows." It has the function of knowing according to the truth of the way things are. Once we have really discerned the truth, we automatically know the way the mind and mental factors are.

Thailand: Soldier mass murderer kills 20+

BBC.com (bbc.co.uk); AP.org, Feb. 8, 2020; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Tourist-friendly Thailand used to be a sweet "free land," uncolonized, full of Buddhist peace.

If only soldiers (militants) would meditate.

Thai soldier murders 20+, holes up in shopping mall: A soldier in the authoritarian Thai police state military, who is holed up in a popular shopping mall in northeastern Thailand, shot multiple people on Saturday, killing at least 20 and injuring 31 others... More

• Better international coverage from BBC than AP

Suspect Thai soldier J. Thomma (BBC.co.uk).

Thai Army Junior Officer Jakraphanth Thomma, 20, [got tired and] killed his commanding officer before stealing weapons from a military camp.

He has murdered 20 people and injured dozens more [at least 31 according to the AP] in a gun rampage in the Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeast Thailand (Isan).

I could've been a baby-monk and stayed good.

The suspect continued his attack in a shopping center, where he is now believed to be holed up, initially posting updates on his social media.

• [Facebook censored those posts, quickly taking them down, and deprived the world of directly seeing what is happening so individuals could try to understand what was happeing and maybe why. What was the military planning that this soldier went berserk and rebelled against his commanding officer, whom he was indoctrinated to obey without question no matter the consequences? Mark Zuckerberg censors whatever government propagandists tell Facebook Corporation to censor if the social media giant -- with many embedded agents and assets from the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, and other Alphabet spy-agencies -- wants continued access to their capitalist markets and user databases].

"Security forces" [of the Thai police state] are in the complex and have "rescued" [aimed military grade assault rifles at scared civilians and told then to run to the sound of shooting] hundreds while searching for the gunman, with shots ringing out.

The military-gunman's motives remain unclear. More + VIDEO

• Massacre in Nakhon Ratchasima unfolds
  

Jack Kornfield: 100 years of Ajahn Chah

Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom Hour (podcast); Dhr. Seven, Ellie Askew (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Jack Kornfield: Episode 79, Remembering Ajahn Chah

(Beherenownetwork.com) On this special episode of the Heart Wisdom Podcast, Jack Kornfield reflects on the life and teachings of his Theravada Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org).

Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist forest tradition monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddha-Dharma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition (Wat Pah Nanachat and Wat Pat Pong).

Respected and beloved in his country as a man of great wisdom, he was also instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism in the West. Beginning in 1979 with the founding of Cittaviveka (commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery) in the United Kingdom, the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah has spread throughout the United States, the British Commonwealth, and Europe. The Dharma (Pali Dhamma) talks of Ajahn Chah have been recorded, transcribed, and translated into several languages.

Our Tree of Teachers – The opening begins with a reflection. A big part of our practice is realizing our interconnectedness. Kornfield reflects on the vast network of benefactors and teachers that are responsible for the aid and guidance which have contributed to who we are at this very moment. Despite what our ego may tell us, we are not alone, nor did we not reach this moment on our own.

“A monk’s work is hard. He works to free his heart so that he begins to feel lovingkindness, which embraces everything.”

– Ajahn Chah

A Still Forest Pool: Insight Meditation

Remembering Ajahn Chah (5:15) – Jack Kornfield shares memories of his teacher Ajahn Chah. He reflects on the impact of Ajahn Chah’s teachings, which have been carried over to the West through his many dedicated students. We hear about an introduction to Ajahn Chah and play a recording of Ajahn Chah sharing his philosophies of mindfulness and meditation.

“When we talked about the hard time that people have in the West with meditating and loving themselves, how much self-hatred and judgment there is, he said to bring them out to the forest. Let them spend time with the trees, with the rhythm of the moon and the sun. Teach them practices of lovingkindness and compassion, that will soothe their hearts and make them sane again.”

– Jack Kornfield quoting Ajahn Chah

An Island of Sanity (22:55) – During the time that Kornfield studied in Thailand, war raged on outside of their peaceful forest monastery. He shares the role this warfare played in their training and the deeper Dharmic lessons that the conflict revealed to them.

“What Ajahn Chah talked about, and my other teachers as well, was that it’s not just that we have to do away with the landmines and bombing, but we have to do away with the landmines in the human heart. We have to do away with the violence in the human heart.”

– Jack Kornfield

Turning Towards Awareness (40:50) – Kornfield shares more stories of the kindhearted and at times whimsical teachings that Ajahn Chah shared with his Western and Eastern students.

“This is who we are. We are short and tall. This is the way that it is. We have to live with each other the way that we are and not the way we would imagine that we are supposed to be.”

– Ajahn Chah

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