AJAHN CHAH - THE NATURAL MIND
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Read By Ajahn Jayasaro
Chah Subhaddo(titles Luang Por and Phra) or in honorific name "Phra Bodhiñāṇathera" (Thai: พระโพธิญาณเถร, Chao Khun Bodhinyana Thera; 17 June 1918 - 16 January 1992) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma 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 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 Europe, the United States and the British Commonwealth. The dhamma talks of Ajahn Chah have been recorded, transcribed and translated into several languages.
More than one million people, including the Thai royal family, attended Ajahn Chah's funeral in January 1993 held a year after his death due to the "hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend". He left behind a legacy of dhamma talks, students, and monasteries.
Ajahn Chah was born on 17 June 1918 near Ubon Ratchathani in the Isan region of northeast Thailand. His family were subsistence farmers. As is traditional, Ajahn Chah entered the monastery as a novice at the age of nine, where, during a three-year stay, he learned to read and write. The definitive 2017 biography of Ajahn Chah Stillness Flowing [6] states that Ajahn Chah took his novice vows in March 1931 and that his first teacher as a novice was Ajahn Lang. He left the monastery to help his family on the farm, but later returned to monastic life on 16 April 1939, seeking ordination as a Theravadan monk (or bhikkhu). According to the book Food for the Heart: The Collected Writings of Ajahn Chah, he chose to leave the settled monastic life in 1946 and became a wandering ascetic after the death of his father. He walked across Thailand, taking teachings at various monasteries. Among his teachers at this time was Ajahn Mun, a renowned meditation master in the Forest Tradition. Ajahn Chah lived in caves and forests while learning from the meditation monks of the Forest Tradition. A website devoted to Ajahn Chah describes this period of his life:
For the next seven years Ajahn Chah practiced in the style of an ascetic monk in the austere Forest Tradition, spending his time in forests, caves and cremation grounds. He wandered through the countryside in quest of quiet and secluded places for developing meditation. He lived in tiger and cobra infested jungles, using reflections on death to penetrate to the true meaning of life.
During the early part of the twentieth century Theravada Buddhism underwent a revival in Thailand under the leadership of outstanding teachers whose intentions were to raise the standards of Buddhist practise throughout the country. One of these teachers was the Venerable Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta. Ajahn Chah continued Ajahn Mun's high standards of practise when he became a teacher.
The monks of this tradition keep very strictly to the original monastic rule laid down by the Buddha known as the vinaya. The early major schisms in the Buddhist sangha were largely due to disagreements over how strictly the training rules should be applied. Some opted for a degree of flexibility (some would argue liberality) whereas others took a conservative view believing that the rules should be kept just as the Buddha had framed them. The Theravada tradition is the heir to the latter view. An example of the strictness of the discipline might be the rule regarding eating: they uphold the rule to only eat between dawn and noon. In the Thai Forest Tradition monks and nuns go further and observe the 'one eaters practice', whereby they only eat one meal during the morning. This special practice is one of the thirteen dhutanga, optional ascetic practices permitted by the Buddha that are used on an occasional or regular basis to deepen meditation practice and promote contentment with little. They might, for example, as well as eating only one meal a day, sleep outside under a tree, or dwell in secluded forests or graveyards.
After years of wandering, Ajahn Chah decided to plant roots in an uninhabited grove near his birthplace. In 1954, Wat Nong Pah Pong monastery was established, where Ajahn Chah could teach his simple, practice-based form of meditation. He attracted a wide variety of disciples, which included in 1966, the first Westerner, Venerable Ajahn Sumedho.[7] Wat Nong Pah Pong [9] includes over 250 branches throughout Thailand, as well as over 15 associated monasteries and ten lay practice centers around the world.
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How lucky we are to have these available. Human existence is so short and not long ago, these teachings were not available in many parts of the world.
Exactly. I feel incredibly grateful that we have access to so much wisdom so effortlessly.
Thank you so much 🙏
Soothing easy peaceful easy living
'Don't think that what you are looking for, can be found anywhere other than right here' never was a truer word spoken!
Inspired...
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu. Please continue posting the Dharma.
Thank you for these invaluable talks from Ajahn Chah 🙏🏼🌹
I wonder if this is available on the Audible app where the pace can be adjusted.
Wow! First time listening to a whole talk of Ajahn Chah. That was full of wisdom. Thank you.
I've gone through most of this playlist and the talks are so interesting and comforting.
Thank you. 🙏
Ajahns Jayasaro, Amaro, Anan, Kalyano and Achalo … thank you. I am blessed to have you instruct me during the time of COVID. Each one of your instructions lie within the footprint of the giant elephant of Theravada teachings of Ajahn Chah. Love you alo
28:19 wisdom
28:48 tranquility
35:27 tranquility benefits
36:49 impermanence
Gracias por el upload
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Yes Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this talk !
Thank you! May you be blessed with good fortune!
thank you for posting this! it is so awesome to hear directly from the great master!
Ajahn Jayasaro has the best reading voice. My mind is very attached to it!
Beautifully spoken. Thank you posting.
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Sadhu Sadhu
Thank you !
Thank you for sharing
Namaste !!!
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Wow!
Thank you for posting this! :)
33:00 the more delicate the breath becomes it may even happen that the breath stops it
Must guide for a begainer/srotopana stage.
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you can slow talks to 0.8 or 0.85 on youtube, this speed is way way better.
stil my mind is blocked i will not go to the temple and practice, its imposible
And which are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external? There being 'I am because of this (or: by means of this),' there comes to be 'I am here because of this,' there comes to be 'I am like this because of this' ... 'I am otherwise because of this' ... 'I am bad because of this' ... 'I am good because of this' ... 'I might be because of this' ... 'I might be here because of this' ... 'I might be like this because of this' ... 'I might be otherwise because of this' ... 'May I be because of this' ... 'May I be here because of this' ... 'May I be like this because of this' ... 'May I be otherwise because of this' ... 'I will be because of this' ... 'I will be here because of this' ... 'I will be like this because of this' ... 'I will be otherwise because of this.' These are the 18 craving-verbalizations dependent on what is external.~ Tanha Sutta
Natural Metta
I'm not really into the fish analogy. it goes against the precept of not killing!
the fish analogy is just for clarifying the way to go... it has no connection with the precepts.
yes ,its call a analogy, he is not asking you to fish yea
You have to put it in the right contact. Majority of his audiences during most of these talks were villagers. He used the analogy that they could understand. He spoke differently when he address different audiences.