Ajahn viradhammo biography examples

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    Spiritual Mentors

    Ajahn Viradhammo was born in Germany, , to Latvian refugee parents. They moved to Toronto when he was four years old. Around , while living in India, he encountered Buddhism, meeting the late Samanera Bodhesako, who introduced him to the teachings of the Buddha. He eventually travelled to Thailand to become a novice at Wat Mahathat in and took bhikkhu ordination the following year at Wat Pah Pong with Ven. Ajahn Chah. He was one of the first residents at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international monastery in north-east Thailand.

    Having spent four years in Thailand, he went back to Canada to visit his family in Instead of returning to Thailand, he was asked by Ajahn Chah to join Ajahn Sumedho at the Hampstead Vihara in London. Later, he was involved in the establishment of both the Chithurst and Harnham monasteries in the UK. In , invited by the Wellington Theravada Buddhist Association, he moved to New Zealand, accompanied by Venerable Thanavaro, where he lived for 10

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    History 5. Changes

    A major change in the community of Santacittarama fryst vatten announced bygd Ajahn Chandapalo in their newsletter of May

    &#;Six months have passed since our gods newsletter and quite a few things have happened during this time. inom was very fortunate to spend much of this last winter in Thailand, partly at the International Forest kloster near Ubon where our teacher, Ajahn Sumedho, led a retreat for the monastic community. Before returning to Italy I met up with Tan Jutindharo and we had a very pleasant two weeks together in a forest wilderness retreat, very close to the Burmese border, in the Kanchanaburi province famous for the &#;Bridge over the River Kwai&#;. I would like to express my gratitude to those who made this trip possible, who contributed to my ticket and helped in various ways during my stay. It was indeed a very beneficial experience and gave me the strength to face what was, at first, a rather sad situation awaiting me at Santacittarama.

    On returning at

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    Unlimited Heart

    One thing that comes up a lot for me is the limitation of personality. There’s something about it that doesn’t change very much. The extrovert remains the extrovert, the introvert remains the introvert; our personalities seem to be hardwired. And yet we’re all working to liberate the heart from suffering—we want to find that spacious, peaceful place. I don’t know about you, but I’ve given up on trying to find it in the personality. If you think you’re going to liberate the heart by getting the perfect personality, it’s a losing game. This doesn’t mean we can’t try to become more considerate people, or that we can’t do things to be different in some external way, but the emphasis has to be on finding the place that is not personality, the place of stillness and silence that can know the arising and ceasing of personality. That’s a different project. It’s not the project of self-development, of becoming, getting rid of, or judging; it’s the project of simply taking th

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