Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

[lojong1]

interview here: http://northwestdharma.org/nw-dharma-news-wp/?p=1481

Skookum!

[polarbuddha101]

Sounds cool. Good for him. Hopefully he will:

In no long time enter & remain in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for himself right in the here-&-now. And know, "Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for the sake of this world."

[Sylvester]

Seconded.

[Monkey Mind]

I once heard Ajahn Sona speak about the few years when he lived a hermit/ renunciate life as a lay person before ordaining. For weeks afterwards I fantacized about moving to a small cabin in the remote wilderness.

[marc108]

For weeks afterwards I fantacized about moving to a small cabin in the remote wilderness.

years!

Brian Ruhe has put a ton of videos of Ajahn Sona up on his youtube if anyone is interested.

[lojong1]

Good talks, even the oddball topic of deva-hearing/dibba-sota. A buddhist non-buddhist friend of mine had similar riverside-meditation hearings and developed dibbasota in daily life -- no formal jhana training, maybe a smattering of sutras or similar ideas through books and good company.

[lojong1]

For weeks afterwards I fantacized about moving to a small cabin in the remote wilderness.

years!...

Found the audio! (on returning to Canada as a monk, not the OP interview)

[iforgotmyname]

Wow Ajahn Sona - what a great find! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqLC4E5yqY