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(658) Ajahn Chah Subhaddo

(299) Ajahn Pasanno

(220) Suffering (dukkha)

(218) Abhayagiri Monastery

(193) Relinquishment (paṭinissagga)

(191) Monastic life (brahmacariyā)

(183) Mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānasati)

(176) Self-identity view (sakkāya-diṭṭhi)

(160) Culture/Thailand

(159) Discernment (paññā)

(156) Teaching Dhamma

(155) Happiness (sukha)

(151) Goodwill (mettā)

(147) Culture/West

(129) Death (maraṇa)

(126) Proliferation (papañca)

(123) Mindfulness (sati)

(121) Compassion (karuṇā)

(117) Faith (saddhā)

(116) Liberation (vimutti)

(115) Similes (opammā)

(114) Generosity (dāna)

(113) Impermanence (anicca)

(113) Tranquility (passaddhi)

(109) Clinging (upādāna)

(107) Ajahn Sumedho

(106) Right Effort (sammā-vāyāma)

(105) Wat Nong Pah Pong

(103) Mindfulness of body (kāyagatā-sati)

(101) Aversion (dosa)

(98) Conditionality (idappaccayatā)

(97) Concentration (samādhi)

(95) Learning (suta)

(95) Not-self (anattā)

(94) Kamma

(94) Pāli

(89) Gratitude (kataññu)

(89) Sickness (byādhi)

(89) Thai Forest Tradition

(87) Fear (bhaya)

(86) Directed thought and evaluation (vitakka-vicāra)

(83) Meditation (bhāvanā)

(83) Vinaya

(80) Jhāna

(80) Skillful qualities (kusalā dhammā)

(79) Chanting

(79) Translation

(77) Tudong Thai (ascetic wandering)

(76) Ajahn Amaro

(74) Virtue (sīla)

(73) Clear comprehension (sampajañña)

(73) Wat Pah Nanachat

(71) Family

(71) Knowing itself

(71) Three Unwholesome Roots (ti-akusala-mūlā)

(70) Dhamma

(70) Sensual desire (kāmacchanda)

(68) Human (manussa)

(67) Right Mindfulness (sammā-sati)

(65) Ajahn Mun Bhūridatto

(65) Saṅgha (Monastic community)

(64) Restlessness and worry (uddhacca-kukkucca)

(63) Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering (dukkha-nirodha ariya-saccaṃ)

(63) Sutta

(62) Craving (taṇhā)

(62) Patience (khanti)

(60) Feeling (vedanā)

(59) Community

(59) Desire (chanda)

(59) Lay life

(59) Politics and society

(58) Noble Eightfold Path (ariya aṭṭaṅgika magga)

(58) Four Noble Truths (cattāri ariya-saccāni)

(57) Delusion (moha)

(56) Five Aggregates (pañcakkhandhā)

(56) Equanimity (upekkhā)

(56) Recollection (anusati)

(55) Physical food (kabaliṅkāra āhāra)

(54) Buddha

(53) Buddha/Biography

(53) Five Hindrances (pañca nīvaraṇāni)

(53) Perception (saññā)

(52) Communal harmony (sāmaggī)

(52) Continuity of mindfulness

(52) Gladdening the mind (abhippamodaya citta)

(52) Health care

(52) Three Refuges (tisaraṇa)

(51) Heart/mind (citta)

(51) Mental volition (manosañcetanā)

(50) Language

(50) Rebirth

(50) Thai language

(50) Truth (sacca)

(50) Views (diṭṭhī)

(49) History/Thai Buddhism

(49) Mindfulness of mind (citta-sati)

(49) Nature of mind

(48) Culture/Natural environment

(48) Energy (viriya)

(48) Humor

(48) Merit (puñña)

(48) Nibbāna

(47) Investigation of states (dhamma-vicaya)

(47) Recollection/Death (maraṇassati)

(47) Sloth and torpor (thīna-middha)

(46) Direct experience

(46) Lodging (senāsana)

(46) Precepts (sikkhāpada)

(46) Spiritual friendship (kalyāṇa-mittatā)

(45) Idealism

(45) Insight meditation (vipassanā)

(45) Mutual lay/Saṅgha support

(45) Work

(44) Ajahn Mahā Boowa Ñāṇasampanno

(43) Ardency (ātāpi)

(43) Fierce/direct teaching

(43) Six Sense Bases (saḷ-āyatana)

(42) Almsround (Pindapat Thai)

(42) Calming meditation (samatha)

(42) Unattractiveness/32 parts (asubha/dvattiṁsākāra)

(42) Volitional formations (saṅkhāra)

(41) Ajahn Liem Ṭhitadhammo

(41) Personality

(41) Right View (sammā-diṭṭhi)

(41) Seclusion (viveka)

(41) Simplicity

(41) Unskillful qualities (akusalā dhammā)

(40) Doubt (vicikiccha)

(40) Pain (dukkha)

(39) Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering (dukkha-samudaya ariya-sacca)

(39) Characteristics of existence

(39) Grief (domanassa)

(39) Long-term practice

(39) Posture/Walking (caranta)

(39) Right Livelihood (sammā-ājīva)

(38) Cessation (nirodha)

(38) Conflict

(38) Judgementalism

(38) Present moment awareness

(38) Rapture (pīti)

(37) Commerce/economics

(37) Dispassion (virāga)

(37) Everyday life practice

(36) Ageing (jarā)

(36) Dhamma books

(36) Meditation retreats

(36) Monastic life/Motivation

(35) Christianity

(35) Consciousness (viññāṇa)

(35) Determination (adhiṭṭhāna)

(35) Sequence of training

(33) Practicing in accordance with Dhamma (dhammā­nu­dhamma­p­paṭipatti)

(33) Right Speech (sammā-vācā)

(32) Role of abbot

(32) Admonishment/feedback

(32) Becoming (bhava)

(32) Divine Abidings (brahmavihārā)

(32) Guilt/shame/inadequacy

(32) Mindfulness of feeling (vedanā-sati)

(32) Stages of awakening

(31) Middle Path (majjhimā paṭipadā)

(31) Spaciousness

(30) Ajahn Ñāṇiko

(30) Conceit (māna)

(30) Dependent origination (paticca-samuppāda)

(30) Deva

(30) Stream entry (sotāpanna)

(29) Almsfood (piṇḍapāta)

(29) Environment

(29) Great disciples

(29) Parents

(29) Relationships

(29) Respect

(28) Ajahn Karuṇadhammo

(28) Devotional practice

(28) Emotion

(28) Habits

(28) Mentoring

(28) Naturalness (dhammaṭṭhitatā)

(28) Ordination (upasampadā)

(27) Ascetic practices (dhutaṅga)

(27) Knowledge and vision (ñāṇadassana)

(27) Theravāda

(26) Buddhist identity

(26) Culture/India

(26) Elements (dhātu)

(26) Joseph Kappel

(25) Commentaries (aṭṭhakathā)

(25) Devotion to wakefulness (jāgariyaṁ anuyutto)

(25) Health

(25) Meditation/General advice

(25) Respect for elders

(25) Saṅghapāla Foundation

(25) Teachers

(24) Lunar observance days (uposatha)

(24) Noble Truth of Suffering (dukkha ariya-sacca)

(24) Questions (pañhā)

(24) Right Concentration (sammā-samādhi)

(24) Thai Ajahn Chah monasteries

(23) Ajahn Ṭhānissaro

(23) Animal (tiracchāna)

(23) Appropriate attention (yoniso manasikāra)

(23) Hearing the true Dhamma (saddhammassavana)

(23) History/Western Buddhist monasticism

(23) Intoxicants (surāmeraya-majja-pamādaṭṭhānā)

(23) Killing (pāṇātipāta)

(23) Trust

(23) Upasikā Kee Nanayon

(22) Contentment (santuṭṭhi)

(22) Conventions

(22) Jack Kornfield

(22) Meditation/Techniques

(22) Rains retreat (vassa)

(22) Recollection/Buddha (buddhānussati)

(22) Right Intention (sammā-saṅkappa)

(22) Sense restraint (indriyesu guttadvāro)

(21) Ajahn Jayasaro

(21) Conscience and prudence (hiri-otappa)

(21) Craving not to become (vibhava-taṇhā)

(21) Master Hsuan Hua

(21) Personal presence

(21) Posture/Sitting (nisinna)

(21) Psychic powers (iddhi)

(21) Renunciation (nekkhamma)

(21) Saṅgha decision making

(21) Thai sects

(20) Emptiness (suññatā)

(20) Funerals

(20) Ill-will (byāpāda)

(20) Meditation/Unusual experiences

(20) Paul Breiter

(20) Spiritual urgency (saṃvega)

(20) The Unconditioned/Ultimate Truth (asaṅkhata)

(20) Upatakh Thai (attendant to senior monks)

(20) Vajrayāna

(19) Ajahn Sucitto

(19) Cittaviveka Monastery

(19) Depression

(19) Progress of insight

(19) Protocols (kiccavatta)

(19) Recollection/Virtue (sīlānussati)

(19) Saṃsāra

(18) Ajahn Buddhadāsa Indapañño

(18) Amaravati Monastery

(18) Arahant

(18) Contact (phassa)

(18) Cultural context

(18) Disrobing

(18) The Gradual Teaching (anupubbikathā)

(18) Humility

(18) Memory (sati)

(18) Recollection/Dhamma (dhammānussati)

(18) Release (vossagga)

(17) Ajahn Tongrat Kantasīlo

(17) Attachment to precepts and practices (sīlabbata-parāmāsa)

(17) Bowing

(17) Buddho mantra

(17) Five Precepts (pañca sikkhāpadāni)

(17) History/Early Buddhism

(17) Leadership

(17) Self-reliance

(17) Unification (ekaggatā)

(17) Visiting holy sites

(16) Abuse/violence

(16) Medicinal requisites (gilāna-paccaya-bhesajja-parikkhāraṃ)

(16) Military

(16) Perfectionism

(16) Robes (cīvara)

(16) Zen

(15) Building projects

(15) Ceremony/ritual

(15) Heedfulness (appamāda)

(15) Technology

(15) Western psychology

(14) Cleanliness

(14) Disenchantment (nibbidā)

(14) Form (rūpa)

(14) Ten Perfections (dasa pāramiyo)

(14) Spiritual search (ariya-pariyesanā)

(14) Temporary ordination

(14) Visualization

(13) Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo

(13) Artistic expression

(13) Association with people of integrity (sappurisasaṁseva)

(13) Birth (jāti)

(13) Buddha images

(13) Forgiveness (khama)

(13) Ignorance (avijjā)

(13) Not handling money

(13) Perception of a samaṇa (samaṇa saññā)

(13) Realms of existence

(13) Recollection/Saṅgha (saṅghānussati)

(12) Ajahn Sudanto

(12) Children

(12) Dtao Dtum Monastery

(12) Seven Factors of Awakening (satta bojjhaṅgā)

(12) Geography/Thailand

(12) History/Sri Lankan Buddhism

(12) Media

(12) Monasteries

(12) Monastic titles

(12) Māra

(12) Nature of the cosmos

(12) Novices (sāmaṇera)

(12) Pace of life

(12) Postulants (anagārika)

(12) Four Postures

(11) Ajahn Kinaree Candiyo

(11) Four Bases of Success (cattāro iddhipādā)

(11) Body scanning

(11) City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

(11) Eight Precepts (aṭṭha sikkhāpadāni)

(11) Empathetic joy (muditā)

(11) Etymology

(11) Forest versus city monks

(11) Ghost (peta)

(11) Greed (lobha)

(11) Monastic routine/schedule

(11) Neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling (adukkhamasukhā vedanā)

(11) Nimitta

(11) P. A. Payutto

(11) Pandemic

(11) Poverty

(11) Purpose/meaning

(11) Pāṭimokkha

(11) Recollection/Devas (devatānussati)

(11) Four Requisites

(11) Spiritual traditions

(10) Abhidhamma

(10) Ajahn Anan Akiñcano

(10) The Dalai Lama

(10) Dhamma online

(10) Insight Meditation Society

(10) Lay supporters

(10) Listening

(10) Mahāyāna

(10) Six Principles of Cordiality (cha dhammā sārāṇīyā)

(10) Protective chants (paritta)

(10) Science

(10) Study monks

(10) Wat Keuan

(9) Ajahn Dune Atulo

(9) Ajahn Sundarā

(9) Ajahn Teean Cittasubho

(9) Almsbowl (patta)

(9) Bhikkhu Bodhi

(9) Dreams (supinā)

(9) Kaṭhina

(9) Meditation/Results

(9) Moods of the mind (Arom kong git Thai)

(9) Online community

(9) Recollection/Generosity (cāgānussati)

(9) Recreation/leisure/sport

(9) Suicide

(9) Sīladharā

(9) Tipiṭaka (Pāli Canon)

(9) Travel

(9) Women in Buddhism

(8) Activism

(8) Ajahn Baen Dhanākaro

(8) Ajahn Boon Choo Ṭhitaguṇo

(8) Ajahn Chah lineage

(8) Ajahn Dtun Thiracitto

(8) Ajahn Jotipālo

(8) Ajahn Khao Anālayo

(8) Doctrine-of-self clinging (attavādupādāna)

(8) Elders' Council monasteries

(8) False speech (musā-vādā)

(8) Formless attainments (āruppa)

(8) God

(8) Hinduism

(8) Idle chatter (samphappalāpa)

(8) Kittisaro

(8) Mindfulness of dhammas (dhammā-sati)

(8) Four Nutriments (cattāro āhārā)

(8) Older monks

(8) Selfishness

(8) Sexual misconduct (kāmesu micchācāra)

(8) Spiritual bypass

(8) Women's monastic forms

(8) Ṭhānissarā

(7) Ajahn Puriso

(7) Anumodanā (Delighting in goodness)

(7) Blame and praise (nindā ca pasaṃsā ca)

(7) Competitiveness

(7) Crime

(7) Drawbacks (ādīnava)

(7) Mae Chee Thai

(7) Mae Chee Kaew

(7) Mantra

(7) Non-contention

(7) Pūjā

(7) Relics (sarīra)

(7) Stupas/monuments (thūpaṃ)

(7) Time management

(7) Seven Treasures (satta dhanā)

(7) Types of monks

(6) Ajahn Viradhammo

(6) Bhikkhunī

(6) Bodhisattva

(6) Entertainment and adornment (nacca-gīta-vādita)

(6) Exercise

(6) History/Indian Buddhism

(6) Internet

(6) Malicious speech (pisuṇāya vācā)

(6) Movement meditation

(6) Outflows (āsava)

(6) Pacific Hermitage

(6) Posture/Standing (tiṭṭhanta)

(6) Vegetarianism

(6) Wat Tam Saeng Pet

(6) Weather (utu)

(5) Ajahn Chah monasteries

(5) Ajahn Khemadhammo

(5) Ajahn Koon Aggadhammo

(5) Ajahn Mahā Amorn Khemacitto

(5) Ajahn Paññāvaḍḍho

(5) Ajahn Sao Kantasīlo

(5) Ajahn Wanchai Vicitto

(5) Asking forgiveness ceremony

(5) Beauty

(5) Tan Chao Khun Upāli Guṇūpamājahn

(5) Disasters

(5) Eating after noon (vikāla-bhojana)

(5) Five Faculties (pañca indriyā)

(5) History

(5) History/Western Buddhism

(5) Holy Transfiguration Monastery

(5) Lay teachers

(5) Mahasi Sayadaw

(5) Mental illness

(5) Noting

(5) Perception of light (āloka-saññā)

(5) Poo Jum Gom Monastery

(5) Posture/Lying down (sayāna)

(5) Right Action (sammā-kammanta)

(5) Royalty

(5) Service

(5) Stories

(5) Western Ajahn Chah monasteries

(5) Eight Worldly Conditions (aṭṭha lokadhammā)

(4) Addiction

(4) Advertizing

(4) Ajahn Anando

(4) Ajahn Chah Remembrance Day

(4) Ajahn Paññānanda Padumuttaro

(4) Ajahn Piak Kantasīlo

(4) Ajahn Sim Buddhacaro

(4) Bhante Gunaratana

(4) Confession (paṭidesanā)

(4) Courage

(4) The Deathless (amata)

(4) Dhammadharini Monastery

(4) Dignity

(4) Dōgen

(4) Festival days

(4) Free distribution

(4) Harsh speech (pharusāya vācā)

(4) Heedlessness (pamāda)

(4) History/Mahāyāna Buddhism

(4) History/Other Theravāda traditions

(4) Jealousy

(4) King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)

(4) Monastic crafts

(4) News

(4) Non-return (anāgamī)

(4) Not-made-of-that (atammayatā)

(4) Prisons

(4) Secular Buddhism

(4) Social media

(4) Sound of silence

(4) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

(4) Stealing (adinnādāna)

(4) Venerable Analayo

(4) Wat Fah Krahm

(4) Wat Pah Ban Tat

(4) Wrong concentration (micchā-samādhi)

(3) Aids to Awakening (bodhipakkhiyādhammā)

(3) Ajahn Fun Ācāro

(3) Ajahn Gunha Sukhagāmo

(3) Ajahn Jun Indavīro

(3) Ajahn Sinuan

(3) Ajahn Soṇa

(3) Ajahn Suwat Suvaco

(3) Ajahn Tate Desaransi

(3) Ajahn Tiradhammo

(3) Ajahn Waen Suciṇṇo

(3) Chao Khun Nor

(3) Corruption

(3) Culture/Sri Lanka

(3) Dhamma recordings

(3) Discrimination

(3) Euthanasia

(3) Fasting

(3) Father Damien

(3) Ten Fetters (dasa saṃyojanā)

(3) Gratification (assāda)

(3) Hua tou Chinese

(3) Intuition

(3) Koan

(3) Lawfulness (dhammaniymatā)

(3) Mae Chee Kumfah

(3) Master Hsu Yun

(3) Monastery organizational structure

(3) Non-profit organizations

(3) Preah Mahāghosānanda

(3) Question in Thai

(3) Ram Dass

(3) Recollection/Peace (upasamānussati)

(3) Retirement

(3) S. N. Goenka

(3) Self-pity

(3) Sharing circles

(3) Suchness (tathatā)

(3) Superstition

(3) Symbolism

(3) Wat Burapha

(3) Western Ajahn Chah lineage

(3) Winnie-the-Pooh

(2) Ajahn Achalo

(2) Ajahn Anek Yasadinno

(2) Ajahn Brahmavaṃso

(2) Ajahn Gavesako

(2) Ajahn Gi Dhammuttamo

(2) Ajahn Jia Cundo

(2) Ajahn Jumnien

(2) Ajahn Jundee Kantasāro

(2) Ajahn Plien Paññapatipo

(2) Ajahn Utane Kalyāno

(2) Ajahn Vajiro

(2) Ajahn Ñāṇadhammo

(2) Amulets

(2) Three Aspects of Understanding

(2) Attitude

(2) Ayya Tathālokā

(2) Four Biases (catarī agatī)

(2) Bodhi Tree

(2) Community of Abhayagiri Lay Ministers

(2) Celibacy (brahmacariyā)

(2) Chi Gong

(2) Cults

(2) Culture/Other Theravāda traditions

(2) Dependence (nissaya)

(2) Dhamma discussion (dhammasākacchā)

(2) Kloster Dhammapala

(2) Escape (nissaraṇa)

(2) Fourfold Assembly

(2) Hell (niraya)

(2) History/America

(2) Hospitality

(2) Industry

(2) Isan/Lao language

(2) Islam

(2) Judaism

(2) Kasiṇa

(2) Larry Rosenberg

(2) Mae Chee Sansanee

(2) Meditation groups

(2) Moderation in eating (bhojane mattaññū)

(2) Monastic teachers

(2) Mudra Sanskrit (Hand posture)

(2) Non-human beings (amanussa)

(2) Nonviolent Communication

(2) Once return (sakadāgāmī)

(2) Pa Auk Sayadaw

(2) Paccekabuddha

(2) Philosophy

(2) Prayer

(2) Four Protective Meditations (caturārakkhā bhāvanā)

(2) Pure Land

(2) Renunciant practice

(2) Ruth Denison

(2) Sitter's practice

(2) Somdet Phra Vajirañāṇavarorasa

(2) Supernatural

(2) Thai audio

(2) Three Conditions Monastery

(2) Unestablished consciousness (appatiṭṭhitaṁ viññāṇaṁ)

(2) Wat Buridat

(2) Wat Metta

(1) Abhayagiri Monastery (Sri Lanka)

(1) Abortion

(1) Advaita Vedanta

(1) Ajahn Bunjong

(1) Ajahn Chorp Ṭhānasamo

(1) Ajahn Fuang Jotiko

(1) Ajahn Jayanto

(1) Ajahn Jitindriyā

(1) Ajahn Jāgaro

(1) Ajahn Kalyāṇo

(1) Ajahn Kevali

(1) Ajahn Khantipālo

(1) Ajahn Kusalo

(1) Ajahn Mahā Adisak Dhammābhinando

(1) Ajahn Mahā Chatchai

(1) Ajahn Mahā In

(1) Ajahn Mahā Suporn

(1) Ajahn Munindo

(1) Ajahn Pavaro

(1) Ajahn Piyadhammo

(1) Ajahn Preecha Jutindharo

(1) Ajahn Puth Thaniyo

(1) Ajahn Sanong Katapuñño

(1) Ajahn Siripañño

(1) Ajahn Somboon Cittapañño

(1) Ajahn Supah Kantasīlo

(1) Ajahn Toon Cattasallo

(1) Ajahn Vajirayan Vajirañāno

(1) Ajahn Visuddhi

(1) Anandagiri Monastery

(1) Aranya Bodhi Hermitage

(1) Arrow River Forest Hermitage

(1) Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery

(1) Atheism/agnosticism

(1) Bhante Dharmawara

(1) Bhante Yogavacara Rahula

(1) Tan Chao Khun Prayoon Dhammacitto

(1) Craving for material existence (rūparāga)

(1) Culture/Asia

(1) Culture/Native American

(1) Dipa Ma

(1) Disciplinary transactions

(1) Factors for stream entry (sotāpattiyaṅga)

(1) Fame and disrepute (yaso ca ayaso ca)

(1) Father Boniface

(1) Geography/India

(1) George Sharp

(1) Harata Rōshi

(1) High and luxurious beds (uccāsayana-mahāsayanā)

(1) Icons

(1) Joseph Goldstein

(1) Karuna Buddhist Vihara

(1) Krishnamurti

(1) Lama Zopa Rinpoche

(1) Loneliness

(1) Mahatma Gandhi

(1) Malas

(1) Manjushri Institute

(1) Maurice Walsh

(1) Nichiren Buddhism

(1) Non-monastic centers

(1) Other Thai Forest teachers

(1) Other Thai forest monasteries

(1) Other Thai monastics

(1) Panyaprateep School

(1) Principles of (communal) non-decline (aparihānāya dhammā)

(1) Qualities for non-decline (aparihānāya dhammā)

(1) Rodney Smith

(1) Smoking

(1) Taungpulu Sayadaw

(1) Temple Forest Monastery

(1) The Far Side

(1) Thubten Chodron

(1) Tisarana Monastery

(1) Trulshik Rinpoche

(1) Venerable Ñāṇatiloka

(1) Wat Asokaram

(1) Wat Khao Wongkot

(1) Wat Pah Supattaram

(1) Wat Pahk Kut Wai

(1) Wat Phu Din Dang

(1) Wat Ram Poeng

(1) Wat Suan Mokkh

(1) Āgama