Humility
Skillful qualities / Humility
Glosses: Modesty
12 excerpts, 58:12 total duration

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Remembering Ajahn Chah Weekend, Session 33 – Apr. 29, 2001

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5. Story: Ajahn Chah asks for forgiveness. Told by Gail Kappel. [Asking forgiveness ceremony] [Ceremony/ritual] [Ajahn Chah] // [Joseph Kappel] [Humility]

Quote: “If you cry a little bit, it’s good. If you cry a lot, you’re a fool.” — Ajahn Chah [Suffering]


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9. Quote: “You’re strong. Now you need to make your heart as strong as your body.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Joseph Kappel. [Ajahn Chah] [Heart/mind] // [Joseph Kappel] [Humility] [Family] [Culture/Natural environment]


Remembering Ajahn Chah Weekend, Session 34 – Apr. 29, 2001

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3. Story: Ajahn Chah’s failing heath and Rains Retreat at Tam Saeng Pet. Told by Joseph Kappel. [Sickness] [Health care] [Rains retreat] [Wat Tam Saeng Pet] [Ajahn Chah] // [Wat Pah Pong] [Lodging] [Seclusion] [Generosity] [Joseph Kappel]

Story: “Pabakkaro, make me a Communist.” [Culture/Natural environment] [Medicinal requisites] [Contentment] [Sensual desire]

Story: Venerable Pabakkaro attends to Ajahn Chah. [Upatakh] [Humility]

Story: Ajahn Chah visits the branch monasteries for the last time. [Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries] [Vinaya] [Saṅgha]


The Gradual Training, Session 2 – Oct. 20, 2012

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6. Story: They ask the Zen master what would it say if they wrote the biography of his life? “One mistake after another.” [Zen] [Learning] [Humility] [Gradual Teaching]