Even One Word Is Enough | Ajahn Chah

01/20/24 • 35 min

This episode is a talk given by the Thai forest meditation master Ajahn Chah and is titled “One Word Is Enough” . It was first publish as part of the book “The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah” which is made available by Aruna Publications. You can find links to the original text in the description below.

A quick note to listeners:

This talk is directed at Western monks living in England. Notably Ajahn Sumedho participates in this discussion.
There is reference to ‘pacceka-buddhas’ in this talk. This means ‘private buddhas’ who are fully self-awakened buddhas that live in different eras. However, they do not go on to teach and start a Sasana in which millions of beings will follow the teachings and practice of a fully self-awakened Buddha and find their own awakening. They only become awakened but do not teach.

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Attribution: You must give the original author credit.
Non-Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

A quick note to listeners:

This talk is directed at Western monks living in England. Notably Ajahn Sumedho participates in this discussion.
There is reference to ‘pacceka-buddhas’ in this talk. This means ‘private buddhas’ who are fully self-awakened buddhas that live in different eras. However, they do not go on to teach and start a Sasana in which millions of beings will follow the teachings and practice of a fully self-awakened Buddha and find their own awakening. They only become awakened but do not teach.

Attribution: You must give the original author credit.
Non-Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

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Consciousness | Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo

This episode is a talk given by the Thai forest meditation master Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo and is titled “Consciousness” . Less than a year before Ajaan Lee's death, some of his students began tape-recording his Dhamma talks. The following talk is one of the nine for which we have transcripts from the tapes — and one of the four for which the tapes are still extant. It's a very unusual talk, showing his distinctive humour and style, and providing a lively discussion of the ways in which the concepts of "self" and "not-self" actually function in practice.

This talk was translated by Ajahn Thanissaro and was published on Access to Insight.

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The text of this page ("Consciousnesses", by Metta Forest Monastery) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. Documents linked from this page may be subject to other restrictions. Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 2 November 2013.

How to cite this document (a suggested style): "Consciousnesses", by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/lee/consciousnesses.html .

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This episode is a talk given by the Thai forest meditation master Ajahn Maha Boowa and is titled “The Marvel of the Dhamma”. It was first publish as part of the book “Straight from the Heart” which was translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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