Wisdom of Ajahn Chah

Before I discovered Ajahn Chah’s teaching, I felt as if I was lost. I was drifting between Catholicism and Buddhism. Ajahn Chah is a Theravada Buddhist monk for a Forest Tradition. He is Thai citizen of Lao ancestry. He had established a forest temple in the northeastern part of Thailand Thais, other Asians, and many Farangs (White/European) have ordained in his temple. His teaching have been published and well known worldwide. This monk had made an impact on me that I now considered myself a Buddhist.

Here is a twist. We have a monk in a family not sure how he is related. We always call him Pou Ajahn because he had adopted my father before he became a monk I presume.

When I discovered Ajahn Chah, I was so excited that he is the monk I wish all the monk was like him (beside Pou Ajahn). I told my mother of him and how he had established a Forest Monastery (Wat Pa) in Ubon Ratchani, Thailand.

Immediately my mother told me that Pou Ajahn had wanted to go to Ubon Ratchani to learn from Ajahn Chah and be part of Wat Pa when it first started it. Things never work out and Pou Ajahn never left Pakse since. Maybe I will have a chance to ask him about it if I see him when I go to Laos next year.

The monk that got me interested in Buddhism is the same one that Pou Ajahn wanted to go learn Dhamma from. How weird is that. It is a small world.

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~ by Dallas Lao on November 7, 2007.