3. Ajahn Sumedho has been so important in my life. [Ajahn Sumedho] [Jack Kornfield] [Gratitude] [Ajahn Chah] // [Wat Pah Pong] [Monastic life] [Teaching Dhamma]
Simile: Ajahn Sumedho explains Ajahn Chah’s jazz. [Similes]
7. Wat Pah Pong: A place of dignity and surrender. [Wat Pah Pong] [Dignity] [Perception of a samaṇa] [Relinquishment] [Ajahn Chah] // [Cleanliness] [Conflict] [Military] [Suffering] [Respect] [Virtue] [Almsround] [Pain] [Chanting] [Monastic crafts] [Bowing]
Quote: “An island of sanity in a sea of madness.” [Three Refuges]
Quote: “Everything you do in your life in this monastery is a chance to awaken.” — Ajahn Chah [Liberation] [Continuity of mindfulness]
19. Taking the one seat—meditation teachings from Ajahn Chah. [Sense bases] [Impermanence] [Mindfulness] [Ajahn Chah] // [Clinging] [Liberation] [Meditation/Unusual experiences] [Direct experience]
22. What is your place of suffering? What would the Buddha be like in the face of that? [Suffering] [Buddha] [Ajahn Chah] // [Relinquishment] [Truth] [Dignity] [Discernment] [Mindfulness of body] [Compassion] [Liberation]
23. What does not suffering mean? [Suffering] [Cessation of Suffering] [Ajahn Chah] // [Judgementalism] [Politics and society] [Discrimination] [Environment] [Discernment] [Compassion] [Human] [Buddha] [Proliferation] [Relinquishment]
Quote: “We human beings are constantly in combat, at war to escape the fact of being limited by so many circumstances that we can’t control...”” — Ajahn Chah [Conflict] [Characteristics of existence]
Quote: “Doubts are natural.” — Ajahn Chah [Doubt] [Naturalness] [Impermanence] [Not-self] [Liberation]
Quote: “The desire mind is like children.” — Ajahn Chah [Desire] [Similes]
Story: “Scary ride, wasn’t it?” [Jack Kornfield] [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Fear] [Death]
24. The compassion that came because he didn’t want anything from anybody. [Compassion] [Dispassion] [Ajahn Chah] // [Relinquishment] [Tranquility] [Teaching Dhamma]
26. Ajahn Chah changed my life. [Jack Kornfield] [Gratitude] [Ajahn Chah] // [Human] [Happiness] [Liberation]
11. Presence and emptiness. [Gratitude] [Emptiness] [Ajahn Chah]