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.
Your favourite contemporary teachers
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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
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Bhikku Gavesako
Bhikku Pesala
Bhikku Samahita
Thanks for hanging around here!
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Pesala
Patrick Kearney
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Satya Narayan Goenka
Bhikkhu Pesala
Patrick Kearney
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Satya Narayan Goenka
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---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 ---
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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.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
The ones I have personal access to.
Mike
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Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
I did.farmer wrote:I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ajahn Succito
I really enjoyed his book Turning the Wheel of Truth and enjoy listening to his online talks.
Turning the Wheel of Truth
http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Wheel-Tru ... 159030764X" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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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Well besides the Monastics who frequent here, who are invaluable members, I would include (and have added two member monastics I feel deserve special note)
Sitagu Sayadaw
Ajahn Liam
Ajahn Munindo
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Vajiro
Ajahn Ghandhasilo
Venerable Pasala
Venerable Bhikshu Hufieng (hope the spelling is correct)
Venerable Analayo
Michael Kewley
and last but not least Greagory Krahmer.
I could continue, but the list would be just people I liked then.
Except for Venerable Analayo I have met each of these teachers, and whether they know it or not have given me fine examples, even if I havn't lived up to their examples. and those who are underlined have changed my opinion in a big way, even if they hadn't done so directly.
They are also not necessarily in order of how much I like them but Vassa/when I met them in person.
Sitagu Sayadaw
Ajahn Liam
Ajahn Munindo
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Vajiro
Ajahn Ghandhasilo
Venerable Pasala
Venerable Bhikshu Hufieng (hope the spelling is correct)
Venerable Analayo
Michael Kewley
and last but not least Greagory Krahmer.
I could continue, but the list would be just people I liked then.
Except for Venerable Analayo I have met each of these teachers, and whether they know it or not have given me fine examples, even if I havn't lived up to their examples. and those who are underlined have changed my opinion in a big way, even if they hadn't done so directly.
They are also not necessarily in order of how much I like them but Vassa/when I met them in person.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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Sayadaw U Teganiya
Ajahn Viradhammo
Ajahn Jayasaro
Stephen Batchelor
Shaila Catherine
Stephen Armstrong
... and if I were to add some I haven't met, or who have passed away...
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Thanissaro
Charlotte Joko Beck
Shunryu Suzuki
Ajahn Viradhammo
Ajahn Jayasaro
Stephen Batchelor
Shaila Catherine
Stephen Armstrong
... and if I were to add some I haven't met, or who have passed away...
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Thanissaro
Charlotte Joko Beck
Shunryu Suzuki
Pronouns (no self / not self)
“Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.”
― Ajahn Chah
“Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.”
― Ajahn Chah
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
For me it would be:
Ajahn Brahmavamso
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Brahmali
Bhikkhu Samahita
Ajahn Brahmavamso
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Brahmali
Bhikkhu Samahita
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
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.
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.
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.
Sorry I feel so Zenny today. It's a byproduct of life.Zen wrote:Before practice, there are mountains and valleys. During practice, there are no mountains and no valleys. After practice, there are mountains and valleys.
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.
Sotthī hontu nirantaraṃ - May you forever be well.
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Hey buckwheatbuckwheat 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.
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
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!
Sotthī hontu nirantaraṃ - May you forever be well.
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Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
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;
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;
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
Venerable Madawela Punnaji
Ñānavīra Thera
Maurice O'Connell Walshe (Thanks for mentioning him, tilt. His DN translation is fantastic IMO)
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Ñānavīra Thera
Maurice O'Connell Walshe (Thanks for mentioning him, tilt. His DN translation is fantastic IMO)
Bhikkhu Bodhi
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3