8602 - [1 of 3] How to Study Dhamma | Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

This Dhamma teaching was offered by Tan Ajahn on 3rd February 1986.
Live English translation by Santikaro Bhikkhu; 55 minutes
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About Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu went forth as a bhikkhu at the age of twenty in 1926. After a few years of study in Bangkok, which convinced him that “purity is not to be found in the big city,” he felt inspiration to live close with nature in order to investigate the Buddha-Dhamma. Thus he established Suan Mokkhabalarama in 1932 near his hometown of Pum Riang in Southern Thailand. At that time it was the region’s only forest Dhamma Center and one of its few places dedicated to vipassana meditation. Word of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, his work, and Suan Mokkh spread over the years so that it became “one of the most influential events of Buddhist history in Thailand.”
After the founding of Suan Mokkh, he studied all schools of Buddhism, as well as other major religious traditions. This interest served practical rather than scholarly aims. He sought to unite all genuinely religious people in order to work together to help, as he put it, “drag humanity out from under the power of materialism.” This broadmindedness won him friends and students from around the world, including Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs.
Ajahn Buddhadasa worked painstakingly to establish and explain the correct and essential principles of what he called “pristine Buddhism,” the original realization of the Lord Buddha before it was buried under commentaries, ritualism, and clerical politics. He based his work on extensive research of the Pali texts (Canon and commentary)-especially the Buddha’s discourses (Sutta Pitaka)-followed by personal experiment and practice with these teachings. Then he taught what he could truly say quenches dukkha (dissatisfaction, suffering). His goal was to produce a complete set of references for present and future research and practice. He always took an approach that was scientific, straight-forward, and practical.
Although his formal education only went as far as ninth grade and beginning Pali studies, he received five Honorary Doctorates by Thai universities. His books, both written and transcribed from talks, fill a room at the National Library and influence all serious Thai Buddhists. Doctoral dissertations continue to be written about him and his legacy. His books can be found in bookstores around the country and are favorites as gifts.
His teachings and selfless example inspired progressive elements in Thai society, especially the young. Since the 1960s, activists and thinkers in areas such as education, ecology, social welfare, and rural development have drawn upon his teachings and advice. He inspired monks involved in nature conservation and community development, and provided a valuable link between scriptural tradition and today’s engaged Buddhist practice.
His final project established an International Dhamma Hermitage near Suan Mokkh to provide facilities for:
1. Courses to introduce foreigners to the correct understanding of Buddhist principles and practice
2. Meetings among Buddhists from around the world to establish and agree upon the ‘heart of Buddhism’
3. Bring together leaders from all religions for the sake of mutual good understanding and cooperation to drag the world out from under the tyranny of materialism.
In addition he encouraged support of a Dhamma-Mata project, a women’s residential facility dedicated to study-practice.
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I'll bite I wanna ask a question lol if there's no such thing as self what is it that's asking the question what am I? The ego? OK whats driving the ego to ask the question what am I? Ego? OK what's driving the ego to ask the question what am I. Ego? OK, so what's driving the ego of the ego of the ego to ask what am I? In budssism is there no god no spirit, no soul no self. What am I? An illusion? What is it that's experiencing the illusion? That's experiencing the so called four noble truths. If there's no self there can be no experience of self... No experience or experiencer... There'd be no thing to learn anything, no thing to measure. Stop me if I'm wrong here lol. All truths are but half truths, if all truths are but half truths then there's no truth. Truth is difinitive. Non defined truth would be a subjective experience, defined truth would be objective. You've said Buddhism is scientific in a sense. Science deals in objective truths... Half the story if both are equally valid perspectives. How enlightened is enlightened.. Seems like its about as enlightened as a rock ultimately. Just a fucking endless mystery, which is cool I can definately get down with that. I don't know how finding a ulitity in something proves its not philosophical in nature. Science itself is a philosophy. Just because I can prove this hammer will hit in a nail by hitting in a nail doesn't prove that that's some fundamental truth. It's all based upon a shared acceptance of what constitutes a hammer and a nail.... And way deeper shared acceptances of reality than that. And they all ammount to agreements between non existant self's according to this state of affairs as far as I can tell... If there's no self or selves. I don't wanna be rude but I don't think this guy talking gets it anymore than I do, this may be my ego talking but I feel like he gets it even less than I do and I'm a pleb lol