Thiteria: Drawings by Ajahn Thitadhammo, Chapter 4
Ranging from the fantastic to the natural, twenty-five years of Ajahn Thitadhammo’s drawings reveal the hidden abundance of a life of renunciation.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | May 8, 2022 | Art & Photography, Ven. Authors - Ajahn Thitadhammo | 0
Ranging from the fantastic to the natural, twenty-five years of Ajahn Thitadhammo’s drawings reveal the hidden abundance of a life of renunciation.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Jan 25, 2022 | Essays & Interviews, Ven. Authors - Nisabho Bhikkhu | 0
The founding of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage in the challenging landscape of Brisbane Australia, reveals the miraculous nature of faith and the Buddha’s teaching.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Jan 1, 2022 | Essays & Interviews, Ven. Authors - Nisabho Bhikkhu | 0
Gus Hales’ battles in the Falklands and elsewhere left him with severe PTSD. After finding peace with the Sangha at Amaravati monastery, he helped spread the Dhamma as a prison chaplain and participating in reconciliation efforts with the IRA.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Nov 29, 2021 | Essays & Interviews, Ven. Authors - Nisabho Bhikkhu | 0
After escaping the violence-ridden neighborhood where he grew up by joining the British Army, Billy’s experience of war left him in the throws of PTSD and addiction. His healing at Amaravati monastery speaks to the power of the Buddhist path and Sangha that helps carry it forward.
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Ordained for over forty years, Ajahn Sucitto trained under Ven. Ajahn Sumedho in the lineage of the Thai forest master, Ven. Ajahn Chah. He was part of the group that established Cittaviveka, Chithurst Forest Monastery, in England.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Sep 15, 2021 | Podcasts | 0
The Kalama Sutta is most famous for its encouragement not to place total trust in traditions and texts, but it also encourages you not to place total trust in your sense of reason and preferences. So where can you place your trust? This talk focuses on the dilemma posed by the sutta’s recommendations, and the way in proposes out of the dilemma. More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.
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Ven. Canda went forth as a Buddhist nun in Burma in 2006 and subsequently took full ordination with Ajahn Brahm. She founded the Anukampa Bhikkhuni project in England, which aims to create a monastic home for bhikkhunis. To support their vision, visit https://anukampaproject.org/donate/. More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Aug 11, 2021 | Podcasts | 0
Ayya Santussika, in residence at Karuna Buddhist Vihara (Compassion Monastery), spent five years as an anagarika (eight-precept nun), then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and as a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles. More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Jul 5, 2021 | Podcasts | 0
From ideas of cosmic cycles to descriptions of the solar system, the model of the universe put forward in the suttas corresponds to a surprising degree with modern understanding. In his essay, Ajahn Brahmali investigates the implications of these unlikely parallels. More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | Jul 5, 2021 | Essays & Interviews, Ven. Authors - Ajahn Brahmali | 0
From ideas of cosmic cycles of expansion and contraction to descriptions of the solar system, the model of the universe put forward in the suttas corresponds to a surprising degree with modern understandings. In his essay, Ajahn Brahmali investigates the implications of these unlikely parallels.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | May 3, 2021 | Podcasts | 0
Ajahn Sona is a first-wave Western Theravada ordained monk and the Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery (‘Birken’). More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.
Read Moreby The Fourth Messenger | May 2, 2021 | Sīmā - Art & Photography, Sīmā - Classic, Ven. Authors - Ajahn Kovilo and "Psychastic" | 0
“Psychastic! The Charming Adventures of an Atheo-psychiatrist Father and his Buddho-monastic Son” is a series of cartoons written by Ajahn Kovilo for his cartoon-loving but not-so-fully-Buddhist father.
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