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	forest SANGHA - About Venerable Luang Por Chah - Ajahn Chah, Vinaya, Meditation, Wisdom, Venerable Sumedho, disciples
		Venerable Ajahn Chah was born on June 17, 1918 in a small village near the town of Ubon Rajathani, North-East Thailand.
		Ajahn Chah often pushed his monks to their limits, to test their powers of endurance so that they would develop patience and resolution.
		In 1977, Ajahn Chah was invited to visit Britain by the English Sangha Trust, a charity with the aim of establishing a locally-resident Buddhist Sangha.
	www.forestsangha.org /aboutchah.htm (1085 words)

	Venerable Ajahn Chah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		During Ajahn Chah's many years of wandering and practicing in seclusion he encountered numerous obstacles, and the qualities of patience and endurance that he developed became central to the teachings he gave to his own disciples.
		Ajahn Chah taught in a direct, uncomplicated, and straightforward manner.
		Ajahn Chah's popularity grew steadily and at present there are more than 300 branch monasteries around the world that look to his teachings and example for inspiration.
	www.santiforestmonastery.com /ajahn_chah.htm (340 words)

	Cittaviveka:HOW THE BUDDHA CAME TO SUSSEX
		Ajahn Chah, with compassion and notorious humour, would tease and frustrate his disciples out of their self-conceit, and those who really wanted to be delivered from their selfishness placed themselves, resignedly at first, but eventually with gratitude and devotion, under his guidance for a minimum period of five years.
		Ajahn Chah's response is not recorded – it was probably no more than a wry smile or a grunt – but in his eighth year, Venerable Sumedho was given the task of establishing a monastery for Western bhikkhus in a haunted forest a few kilometres from Wat Pah Pong, known as Bung Wai.
		Ajahn Sumedho decided that this would be the perfect time for a monastic retreat, and this is the pattern that has established itself as a splendid yearly opportunity for a quiet period of intensive practice.
	amaravati.org /abm/english/documents/cittavivaka/data/02how.html (3770 words)

	Simhanada---The Venerable Ajahn Chah
		After many years of travel and practice, Ajahn Chah was invited to settle in a thick forest grove near the village of his birth.
		Ajahn Chah's simple yet profound style of teaching has a special appeal to Westerners, and many have come to study and practice with him, quite a few for many years.
		Wisdom is a way of living and being, and Ajahn Chah has endeavoured to preserve the life-style of the monks order, so that people may study and practice the Dharma in the present day.
	www.simhas.org /ajahn.html (678 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meeting someone like Ajahn Chah who was completely at ease with the world triggered something in those who met him, introducing us to the possibility of that well-being within our own heart.
		Ajahn Munindo insightfully observes that we yearn for this "induction into that place within ourselves that is genuinely trusting and trustworthy." Having received that marvellous gift from our teacher, he is now celebrating the privilege of offering it through his own life.
		Ajahn Chah said I reminded him of a certain donkey that was enamoured with the beautiful sounds that the crickets made.
	members.aol.com /ratanagiri/wellbeing/intro.htm (897 words)

	Ajahn Chah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhatto (Chao Khun Bodhinyanathera) (alternatively spelled Achaan Chah, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra) (17 June 1918, Thailand – 16 January 1992), was one of the greatest meditation masters of the twentieth century.
		Venerable Ajahn Chah was an influential and perhaps the most famous monk of the Thai Forest tradition of Theravada.
		Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo : Abbot of The Forest Hermitage, Warwickshire, England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ajahn_Chah (781 words)

	Forest Sangha Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Ajahn Chah's case everyone could see that he had the greatest courage and fortitude and so could trust that he was doing it out of compassion.
		Ajahn Chah was completely baffled; he thought they were jokes.
		Ajahn Chah was often very outspoken on such issues, so at he had many enemies.
	www.fsnewsletter.net /9/9.htm (2885 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ajahn Aiyesako was second only in seniority to Ajahn Sumedho, the Chief incumbent of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK.
		Ajahn Ariyesako wrote "The Bhikkhus' Rules - A Guide for Laypeople", a free distribution publication published around 1999 and was the editor of other books such as the Autobiography of Thai Master Ajahn Tate.
		Ajahn Ariyesako does state that the ideal of ordination is 'for as long as life lasts' though it is clear from the Buddha's teaching that a bad monk incurs much demerit (let alone the committing of act!
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/ajahn-disrobe-290304.php (741 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Ajahn Chah on Birth and Becoming
		Ajahn Sumedho in one of his teachings also reminded us: The Buddha taught all that arises is bound for cessation.
		I think Ajahn Chah is suggesting that one can consider impermanence on the instantaneous scale to follow the same course it does on the grand scale.
		I think Ajahn Chah is teaching, among other things (or rather this is one of the things I get out of his teaching), that a way to allow the understanding of dependent arising to transcend the intellectual realm is to allow that understanding to structure a practise of mindfulness.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=21187 (3778 words)

	Attending to the Deathless by Ajahn Amaro
		Ajahn Amaro is co-abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, California.
		Ajahn Chah knew that cutting yourself off was not the place of true inner peace.
		One time, Ajahn Chah was quietly meditating up on the mountain while there was a festival going on down in the village.
	www.thebuddhadharma.com /issues/2003/winter/ajahnamaro.html (4533 words)

	Ajahn Sumedho Interviewed
		When Ajahn Sumedho ('Ajahn' is the Thai equivalent of the Pali/Sanskrit Achariya, or 'Master') came to the Insight Meditation Society in May of 1981, he conducted an eight-day work retreat.
		Ajahn Sumedho inspired the retreatants with his three daily impromptu talks, and casually spent his lunch hour and the one and one-half hour tea break willingly answering their questions about Dhamma practice and entertaining them with stories about monastic life in Thailand.
		AS: I have had a very fortunate experience with a Buddhist monk, Ajahn Chah, and I see what a very happy, tolerant and harmonious being he is. Of course, many of his disciples do not understand what he is teaching, either.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/9280/asint1.htm (4245 words)

	Ein Gespräch mit Ajahn Chah
		Ajahn Chahs frühes Mönchsleben erfolgte nach traditionellem Muster: Studium der buddhistischen Lehren und des Pāli, der Sprache der Schriften.
		Ajahn Chah nahm den neuen Schüler gerne an, doch er bestand darauf, daß für diesen keine Sonderregeln galten, nur weil er aus dem Westen kam.
		Ajahn Chah kehrte 1979 nach England zurück, als die Mönche gerade London verließen, um in Sussex "Chithurst Buddhist Monastery", das erste buddhistische Waldkloster in England einzurichten.
	www.palikanon.com /diverses/ajahn_chah/ajahn_chah.htm (1246 words)

	Newsletter - 1/27/04 - Ven. Ajahn Amaro
		Ajahn Chah would have us do periods of intensive practice, but we would still go out on alms round in the morning and there would always be work to do around the monastery.
		Ajahn Chah always emphasized the Sangha, the community, as a method of practice in and of itself.
		Ajahn Chah, or Luang Por as his disciples called him, possessed that uniquely beautiful quality of being: a quality visible only to a heart seeking The Way of Truth.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl2/nl012704.html (3259 words)

	Forest Sangha Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ajahn Chah was keen to give me all of the support he could so that I could stay with him and further my practice.
		Ajahn Chah advised us to stay in ancient burial grounds and cemeteries whilst on tudong - especially places of ancestral burial, where spirits are believed to live.
		Ajahn Chah taught that you could hear a desana of the Buddha under any tree, in any place, because the teaching of the Buddha would be right there with you.
	www.fsnewsletter.net /19/jun2.htm (2380 words)

	Bodhikusuma - Ajahn Brahmavamso Profile
		Ajahn Brahmavamso (known to all as Ajahn Brahm) was born in London in 1951.
		At the age of 23 he received ordination and trained for several years with the renowned meditation master Ajahn Chah.
		Ajahn Brahm uses his unique combination of scholarship, meditation, and a wicked sense of humour to convey Buddhism to wide and varied audience.
	www.bodhikusuma.com /metta/ajahn_brahm.html (175 words)

	Venerable Father: A Life with Ajahn Chah by Paul Breiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Breiter describes Ajahn Chah as a figure who is at once human yet extraordinary, an orthodox yet unconventional teacher whose remarkable skill, patience, and compassion in training disciples flowed naturally from his deep and joyous realization of the truth.
		PAUL BREITER was ordained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in Thailand in 1970 and soon thereafter met Ajahn Chah.
		He became one of Ajahn Chah's favorite disciples and his translator, and stayed with him until disrobing in 1977.
	www.paraview.com /breiter (316 words)

	Amazon.com: Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah: Books: Ajahn Chah,Ajahn Chah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ajahn Chah of course was (and through his students still is) a marvelous teacher, with the gifts of humor and directness.
		Ajahn Chah took it upon himself as a life's mission to make the Buddha Dharma accessible to absolutely anyone, be that a Harvard professor or an uneducated rice farmer (a life he was very familiar with).
		Committed to a life of simplicity and renunciation, Chah became a monastic at age nine, and after the death of his father, he lived in Thailand's caves, forests and charnal grounds as an ascetic, wandering monk until his death at age 73.
	www.amazon.com /Food-Heart-Collected-Teachings-Ajahn/dp/0861713230 (2171 words)

	No Ajahn Chah : Reflection
		Following the wish of Ajahn Chah that his Dhamma teachings not be sold in any way or form, for free distribution only
		Once there was a layman who came to Ajahn Chah and asked him who Ajahn Chah was.
		Ajahn Chah, seeing that the spiritual development of the individual was not very advanced, point to himself and said," This, this is Ajahn Chah."
	www.geocities.com /breath1life/chah.html (245 words)

	Biographie d'Ajahn Chah
		A cette époque, Ajahn Chah était aux prises avec un problème crucial.
		Ajahn Chah accepta volontiers le nouveau disciple, mais insista pour qu'il ne bénéficie pas de faveurs spéciales, en sa qualité d'Occidental.
		Ajahn Chah poussait souvent ses moines jusqu'à leurs limites, pour tester leurs facultés d'endurance et afin qu'ils développent patience et résolution.
	dhammasukha.free.fr /biblio/chah_bio.htm (1275 words)

	Dhamma Talks - Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso, Venerable Ajahn Chah, Bodhinyana Monastery
		He was ordained in Bangkok at the age of 23 by the Abbot of Wat Saket.
		Ajahn Brahm is currently the Abbot of that monastery.
		He is also the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of W.A, the Spiritual Advisor to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, and the Spiritual Director of the Cittabhavana Buddhist Hermitage in Bundanoon, N.S.W. Ajahn Brahm also regularly visits prisons in WA to teach Buddhism and meditation.
	www.dhammatalks.org.uk /brahm.htm (210 words)

	Dhamma Talks - Ajahn Amaro, Wat Pah Nanachat, Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho
		Ajahn Amaro (Jeremy Horner) was born in Kent England in 1956.
		In 1983 Ajahn Sumedho asked him to take up residence at Harnham Vihara and he requested to make his way there on foot.
		After several years of short visits to USA in 1997 he was invited to take up residence and lead the establishment of Abhayagiri Monastery in California.
	www.dhammatalks.org.uk /amaro.htm (300 words)

	INTRODUCTION One of the most notable features of Venerable Ajahn Chah's teaching was the e
		INTRODUCTION One of the most notable features of Venerable Ajahn Chah's teaching was the emphasis he gave to the Sangha, the monastic order, and its use as a vehicle for Dhamma practice.
		Ajahn Chah foresaw the necessity of establishing the Sangha in the West if long-term results were to be realized.
		At the very least there are the numerous anecdotes of the Venerable Ajahn's own practice which abound throughout the book; these can be read simply as biographical material or as instruction for mind training.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys2/intro.htm (640 words)

	Ajahn Chah's Wisdom
		Ajahn Chah belong to the forest tradition re-established in Thailand in the beginning of this century, by Luang Pu Waen and then Ajahn Mun (who was the teacher of Ajahn Chah).
		Ajahn Chah died a few years ago, but he had many branch monasteries in Thailand as well as in England, Australia and New Zealand.
		Ajahn Chah's talks were compiled into many books and translated into English by his Western disciples.
	www.budsas.org /ebud/ebdha011.htm (1004 words)

	Bodhinyana A Collection of Dhamma Talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ajahn Chah was born into a large and comfortable family in a rural village in Northeast Thailand.
		Ajahn Chah has himself traveled twice to Europe and North America, and has established a thriving branch monastery in Sussex, England.
		Wisdom is a way of living and being, and Ajahn Chah has endeavored to preserve the simple life-style of the monks order that people may study and practice the Dhamma in the present day.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /buddhism/practical/bodhiyana.asp (15820 words)

	Thai Forest Traditions
		Ajaan Chah was born in 1918 in a village in the northeastern part of Thailand.
		Ajaan Chah later became an accomplished meditation teacher in his own right, sharing his realization of the Dhamma with those who sought it.
		Ajaan Chah's simple yet profound teaching style had a special appeal to Westerners, and in 1975 he established Wat Pah Nanachat, a special training monastery for the growing number of Westerners who sought to practice with him.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/thai/index.html (2224 words)

	Ajahn Brahmavamso
		Finding peace in the fast lane of the entertainment world is quite different from the kind of life that Ajahn Brahmavamso chose as a young man. Born in London and educated in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, he became a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition of Ajahn Chah.
		Ajahn Brahmavamso: It was difficult physically, building the monasteries, but there was always a lot of fun around, and it was done joyfully.
		Ajahn Brahmavamso is the Abbot of the Bodhinyana Buddhist Monastery in Western Australia, and Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia.
	www.parami.org /duta/brahmavamso.htm (3129 words)

	General Buddhism
		Ajahn Chah was admired for the way he demystified the Buddha's teachings, presenting them in a remarkably down-to-earth style understandable to people of any background.
		A compilation of edited talks given by a student of Ajahn Chah who appointed him to be the first Western abbot of a Thai monastery.
		Many of the similes that Ajahn Chah used to teach came out of his vast experience of living in the forest.
	www.ottawabuddhistsociety.com /library/General.html (2862 words)

	Inspirational Writings: Selections by No Ajahn Chah
		On another occasion, Ajahn Chah was asked the same question by someone else.
		Ajahn Chah then gave a talk on religion in which he said, "As far as I understand, Christianity teaches people to do good and avoid evil, just as Buddhism does, so what is the problem?
		She told Ajahn Chah she could stay only a short time, as she had to return to take care of her grandchildren, and since she was an old lady, she asked if he could please give her a brief dhamma talk.
	www.hsuyun.org /Dharma/zbohy/Sruti-Smriti/Inspiration/ajahnchah.html (2056 words)

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