Your favourite contemporary teachers

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Besides the many great teachers already listed, I would like to add a few that mabye don't teach dhamma (or at least not Theravada), but they certainly teach the heart of the dhamma:
Lin Jensen
Steve Hagen
Genpo Roshi (even if he sometime teaches by showing us what not to do)
My parents
The little sense of mystery and suspicion that lets me believe the Buddha may have been onto something instead of being on something.
Mother nature, her topography, ebb and flow, flora and fauna, rocks and water, soil and space, human shame and human dignity.
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Bodom,
You forgot to put me on your list... just kidding, but that is quite a long list. If you had to pick your top 5 (most influential - however you decide to determine that), who would you pick? The reason I ask is from your previous posts I respect your opinion, but I need to know where to start on your list.
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buckwheat wrote:Bodom,
You forgot to put me on your list... just kidding, but that is quite a long list. If you had to pick your top 5 (most influential - however you decide to determine that), who would you pick? The reason I ask is from your previous posts I respect your opinion, but I need to know where to start on your list.
Hey buckwheat

It was very tough too narrow down to 5! All of the teachers I listed have impacted my practice in numerous ways but after much deliberation here they are:

Bhante Gunaratana
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Upasika Kee Nanayon

:anjali:
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

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Thanks, Bodom!
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Good choices above.

See also this thread on your favorite historical teacher (other than the Buddha):

http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9304" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Venerable Madawela Punnaji
Ñānavīra Thera
Maurice O'Connell Walshe (Thanks for mentioning him, tilt. His DN translation is fantastic IMO)
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Mun
Ajahn Maha Boowa
Nina van Gorkham
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SDC wrote: Maurice O'Connell Walshe (Thanks for mentioning him, tilt. His DN translation is fantastic IMO)
I got to spend a bit of time with him in London in 1970. He was very kind, very generous with his time, and he had a great sense of humor. It meant a lot to me.
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tiltbillings wrote:
SDC wrote: Maurice O'Connell Walshe (Thanks for mentioning him, tilt. His DN translation is fantastic IMO)
I got to spend a bit of time with him in London in 1970. He was very kind, very generous with his time, and he had a great sense of humor. It meant a lot to me.
Nice! I really admire those first few waves of western practitioners. I suppose he was second or third gen? Must have been an interesting time.
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Thanissaro Bhikku
Ajahn Bramavamso
Ajahn Brahmali
Bhante Yuttadhammo

I could probably think of more, but these are the ones that come up off the top of my head in no particular order.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Bhante Gunaratana
Walpola Rahula
Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli
Ayya Khema
Narāda Thera
Ven. Mahathera Nauyane Ariyadhamma
Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya
Piya Tan
Mithra Wettimuny

:anjali:

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Andrea Fella
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Bhikkhu Bodhi
GIl Fronsdal
Ines Freedman
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
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The late Ven K Sri Dhammananda
http://www.ksridhammananda.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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of all those I would consider my teachers, the only one I've actually met, and spent multiple retreats with, is Bhante G(Gunaratana) and Bhante Seelananda of Bhavana Society in West Virginia.


I would consider my first " teacher" to be Bhikkhu Bodhi, as when I first found Theravada and wanted to learn about the core principles and basics, I listened to his 10+ hour discourse " the Buddha's teachings as it is". even though I only live two hours from where he teaches often and have gone to the Bodhi monastery many times to met him, I never have, he is a great teacher of expectations and impermanence for me hahaha.

My next teacher would be Ajahn Brahm, who's videos changed my practice immensely and who showed me that it is good to let go and be kind to your mind and body. By extension I then found out about Ajahn Chah. I have also found many insightful monastics to learn from on the Dhammatube
channel on youtube. Venerable Yuttadhammo, who I met for the first time on the Buddha Center, in Second Life, is also very good and is using youtube and the internet skillfully to teach dhamma in his " ask a monk" series and now " monk radio" where he takes live questions every Sunday.

and the most amazing thing about that is that I have found that the core message of all these teachers coincide and mesh beautifully with each other because they are one message of pure , ancient Dhamma.
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pilgrim wrote:The late Ven K Sri Dhammananda
http://www.ksridhammananda.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I had no idea he was dead, but I have recently found him and he is also very insightful.
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