Last Updated on January 22, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org was recently interrogated by the Swiss Police if he works:
And what about Ajahn Chah? Did he work?
These monks in northern east Thailand are on …
their daily walk to receive food from the villages.
Not all monks stick striktly to the discipline described by the Buddha.
But these monks … do maintain the orignal forest tradition
of a pure and simple life.
They are not allowed to possess money
nor grow their own food.
This ensured their total dependence on the lay community.
So that they can t cut themselves off in a spiritual coccuun
The abbot, the venerable Ahajan Chah has been in robes for 50 years.
Here in the forest, you can learn to be in hamony with the way things are in nature.
You can life happily and peacefully.
Buddhist monks don t practice meditation for selfish reasons.
we practice to know ourselves.
So that we then are able to understand
and teach others
how to life peacefully and wisely.
…
Some people think that a monks life is a lazy and an easy one.
If that is what they think they should just try,
and see how long they can stand it.
A monks work is hard,
he works to free his heart,
so that he begins to feel love and kindness
which embraces everything.