Excerpt from "Fearless Mountain"

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A documentary named "Fearless Mountain" shows Western monks living in Northern California according to the Thai Forest Tradition, at Abhayagiri Monastery, in the Ajahn Chah lineage. It is a beautiful film that shows the sprouting of Buddhist life in the West, and particularly in the US.

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Awakening and consciousness all the time is the head of Buddhism leading to the liberation of death.

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[@madjo23s]

Buddhism = practicing your mind to get rid of the pains :) sathu

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I wanna be there vante

[@secretary1970]

Those lay people were lucky having their chances to offer foods to the disciplined forest monks like that. If only I would have that luck.

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Whilst I admire much about Buddhism there are also questions in relation to the monastic life as lived in the present day. Some of which are: they live within an organisation as the rest of us do, with all its power politics. There is a sexist hierarchy whereby the most senior nuns are second fiddle to the most junior monks. Also for the eating order. The community builds elaborate temples and quite lavish accommodation for senior monks. There is an opportunity to travel to beautiful places in the world. Their focus is on internal work, as monastic traditions must, but very little support for the public. Meanwhile, their quite comfortable existence is supported by the public. Who donate after working and living in what can be a challenging world. Renunciation isn't too bad when they get to lead more comfortable lives than they could with the mainstream. And all paid for. Despite this many will still engage in power struggles and all very human traits. So, whilst I revere the Buddha's teaching, these organisations are just man made, and wearing robes doesn't mean they're anymore englightened than the rest of us.

[@gaucholemaestro]

Simon Finch are you practising the Buddhas dhamma or the monks dhamma?

[@digitalmagic475]

I wanna say something here maybe Monks read this. the word anijjung thukung anutta is the same meaning cannot say one word without another. Anijjung is impermanent thukkhung is suffering easy to explain easy to see but need a thousand books to explain. Anutta is none - self Needs millions books to explain and need to stay in patijjasamupbat or it will loose track of middle way. Compair to the science Buddhism cannot say the information lost or not lost in the Black hold otherwise will contradict to the word anutta or thukkhung or anijjung.