Ajahn Amaro - A Samana Is One Who Has No Future
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2013
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Ajahn Amaro (born 1956) is a Theravadin teacher, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in south east England. The centre, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai forest tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are the practice and teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with traditional concentration and insight meditation techniques, as an effective way of dissolving stress.
Ajahn Amaro was born Jeremy Charles Julian Horner in Kent. He was educated at Sutton Valence School and Bedford College, University of London. Ajahn means teacher. He is a second cousin of I.B. Horner (1896-1981), late President of the Pali Text Society.
Apart from a certain interest in the theories of Rudolf Steiner-to which he had been introduced by Trevor Ravenscroft,Amaro's principal enthusiasms on leaving university were, by his own admission, pretty much those standard-issue among sceptical students of the day: sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
Having completed his honours degree in psychology and physiology, in 1977 he went to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand on an undefined "open-ended" spiritual search. He somehow found himself in northeast Thailand, at the forest monastery of Wat Pah Nanachat. Ajahn Chah's charismatic impact and the encouragement of the senior American monk Ajahn Pabhakaro were decisive. It changed his life. Having become a lay renunciate, four months later he became a novice and in 1979 he received upasampada from Ajahn Chah and took profession as a Theravadin bhikkhu. He stayed in Thailand for two years. Amaro then went back to England to help Ajahn Sumedho establish Chithurst Monastery in West Sussex. With the blessing of his abbot, in 1983 he moved to Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. He made the entire 830-mile journey on foot, chronicled in his 1984 volume Tudong: The Long Road North
Dhamma Talk
Being mindful of the space between thoughts is indeed a great teaching. Sometimes we get so caught up in the actors we forget they're strutting across a stage only to disappear behind the other curtain when they're done!
Thank you Ajahn! Sadhu!
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the samana is calm for he doesn't live in the future. if one were to be in the future one couldn't be calm. Is this the reason why a samana has no future?
I think it means that no more life to be born to suffer anymore. sadhu.
Living in the future is living in thoughts of what we think the future will be. Also, the nature of thinking is to worry about what might happen in the future. So the samana’s not worrying about the future is why he stays calm.
There is always a future next moment....goal is to be where you are when you are there and be there as fully as possible. This is different from conventional reality. Eg. The buddha statue being delivered to monastery tomorrow. Will tomorrow happen as planned is uncertain and unknown. Universal reality vs conventional reality
Shadu Shadu Shadu
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