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Sogyal Rinpoche
Pema Chödrön
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Your favourite contemporary teachers
- Bonsai Doug
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Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Now having obtained a precious human body,
I do not have the luxury of remaining on a distracted path.
~ Tibetan Book of the Dead
I do not have the luxury of remaining on a distracted path.
~ Tibetan Book of the Dead
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Master Sheng-Yen
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Chah
Chögyam Trungpa
Nanavira Thera
Buddhadasa
Bhante G
Ajahn Sucitto and Sujato
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Chah
Chögyam Trungpa
Nanavira Thera
Buddhadasa
Bhante G
Ajahn Sucitto and Sujato
"What holds attention determines action." - William James
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Ajahn Brahm - Drew me to Theravada, if everyone took his advice the world'd be a better place (cue John Lennon..)
Ajahn Chah: No Chah, No Brahm (or Sumedho, Pasanno, Sucitto...you get my drift!)
Bhikkhu Samahita : Love his 'Dhamma drops from Ceylon' - Simply presented and very powerful. If you haven't yet, check out http://what-buddha-said.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Many others! Thank you to the entire Noble Sangha
Oh and I agree with Ben that we must add Gotama Buddha to our list - He'll always be contemporary!!!! And without him, Dukkha would hold sway over all
Ajahn Chah: No Chah, No Brahm (or Sumedho, Pasanno, Sucitto...you get my drift!)
Bhikkhu Samahita : Love his 'Dhamma drops from Ceylon' - Simply presented and very powerful. If you haven't yet, check out http://what-buddha-said.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Many others! Thank you to the entire Noble Sangha
Oh and I agree with Ben that we must add Gotama Buddha to our list - He'll always be contemporary!!!! And without him, Dukkha would hold sway over all
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Hello friends,
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ajahn Thanissaro. So, I'll cast my vote for him as my favorite Theravadin teacher, followed closely by Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Brahm.
Metta and Anjali,
Saijun
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ajahn Thanissaro. So, I'll cast my vote for him as my favorite Theravadin teacher, followed closely by Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Brahm.
Metta and Anjali,
Saijun
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
A couple of posters (including moi), mentioned the Ven. Thanissaro.
V.
V.
I'm your friendly, neighbourhood Asura
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Hello Vepacitta,Vepacitta wrote:A couple of posters (including moi), mentioned the Ven. Thanissaro.
V.
My sincerest apologies to you and the others for missing those postings the first time through. Thank you for pointing them out to me.
Metta and Anjali,
Saijun
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Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
This deserves a bump up.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Hi
Ajahn Mun
Ajahn Maha Bowa
Ajahn Chah
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Nanananda
Ajahn Sumedho
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Ajahn Passano
Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw
Jeppe
Ajahn Mun
Ajahn Maha Bowa
Ajahn Chah
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Nanananda
Ajahn Sumedho
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Ajahn Passano
Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw
Jeppe
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you
let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely,
you will know complete peace and freedom.
Ajahn Chah
let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely,
you will know complete peace and freedom.
Ajahn Chah
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Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Buddhadasa
Stephen Batchelor
Martine Batchelor.
Ajahn Buddhadasa
Stephen Batchelor
Martine Batchelor.
The going for refuge is the door of entrance to the teachings of the Buddha.
Bhikku Bodhi.
Bhikku Bodhi.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Because his dharma talks are amazing compelling, setting me in the path, not only for right concentration & mindfulness.
Bhikkhu Bodhi: His knowledge about the buddha's teachings and the pali cannon, he got me really interested in the suttas and the search for truth in the pali canon.
Bhikkhu Bodhi: His knowledge about the buddha's teachings and the pali cannon, he got me really interested in the suttas and the search for truth in the pali canon.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
1) Ven. Ajahn Jayasaro - for his sincerity, for his skill to explain Dhamma via his personal understanding and practice (and not just by learning commentaries, suttas, ect., and repeating what is said there).
2) Ven. Bodhi Bhikkhu - for his learning, for his translations, and for the middle-way approach to theravada texts.
2) Ven. Bodhi Bhikkhu - for his learning, for his translations, and for the middle-way approach to theravada texts.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
munindra
dipa ma
john daido loori (zen)
ajahn chah
chas dicapua
dipa ma
john daido loori (zen)
ajahn chah
chas dicapua
Take care of mindfulness and mindfulness will take care of you.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Too many to list but i'd specially like to mention:
Bhikku Gavesako
Bhikku Pesala
Bhikku Samahita
Thanks for hanging around here!
Bhikku Gavesako
Bhikku Pesala
Bhikku Samahita
Thanks for hanging around here!
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Pesala
Patrick Kearney
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Satya Narayan Goenka
Bhikkhu Pesala
Patrick Kearney
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Satya Narayan Goenka
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ajahn Succito.
I've never met him, but I've found a lot of useful perspective in his writing and dhamma talks. He strikes me as having deep, empathetic insight into individual and interpersonal psychology and a talent for connecting those insights with the concepts the Buddha used to analyze the mind. His book "Kamma and the end of Kamma" helped me see family life as an opportunity for, rather than a distraction from, practice. It improved my marriage, helped me grow up a little, and best of all, it is free:
http://www.forestsangha.org/index.php?o ... hn-sucitto" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ajahn Succito talks quite a bit about the frustrations and frictions that go with living in a monastic community -- good medicine for anybody who sees monastic life as a way to escape the dukkha inevitable in living with other people.
I've never met him, but I've found a lot of useful perspective in his writing and dhamma talks. He strikes me as having deep, empathetic insight into individual and interpersonal psychology and a talent for connecting those insights with the concepts the Buddha used to analyze the mind. His book "Kamma and the end of Kamma" helped me see family life as an opportunity for, rather than a distraction from, practice. It improved my marriage, helped me grow up a little, and best of all, it is free:
http://www.forestsangha.org/index.php?o ... hn-sucitto" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ajahn Succito talks quite a bit about the frustrations and frictions that go with living in a monastic community -- good medicine for anybody who sees monastic life as a way to escape the dukkha inevitable in living with other people.