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Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:25 pm
by lojong1
interview here: http://northwestdharma.org/nw-dharma-news-wp/?p=1481" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Skookum!

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:59 am
by Polar Bear
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."

:namaste:

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:51 am
by Sylvester
Seconded.

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:56 am
by 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.

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:34 pm
by marc108
Monkey Mind wrote: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.

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:01 pm
by 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.

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:02 am
by lojong1
marc108 wrote:
Monkey Mind wrote: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)

Re: Ajahn Sona to take 1 year retreat.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 9:32 pm
by iforgotmyname
Wow Ajahn Sona - what a great find! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqLC4E5yqY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;