The Buddho Foundation

By Ajahn Brahm: Ajahn Brahmavamso

By Ajahn Chah: Given in the Northeastern dialect to an assembly of monks and lay people in 1970. The teaching of Buddhism is about giving up evil and practising good. Then, when evil is given up and goodness is established, we must let go of both good and evil. We have already heard enough about wholesome and unwholesome […]

By Ajahn Chah: Given to the assembly of monks and novices at Wat Pah Nanachat, during the rains retreat, 1978. The practice of Dhamma goes against our habits, the truth goes against our desires, so there is difficulty in the practice. Some things which we understand as wrong may be right, while the things we take to be […]

By Ajahn Chah: Taken from a talk given in England to a Western Dhamma student in 1977. Do you know where it will end? Or will you just keep on studying like this? …Or is there an end to it? … That’s okay but it’s the external study, not the internal study. For the internal study you have […]

By Ajahn Chah: Given on the occasion of a large group of lay people coming to Wat Pah Pong to make offerings to support the monastery. These days people are going all over the place looking for merit1. And they always seem to stop over in Wat Pah Pong. If they don’t stop over on the way, they […]

By Ajahn Chah: A discourse delivered to the assembly of monks after the recitation of the pātimokkha, the monk’s disciplinary code, at Wat Pah Pong during the rains retreat of 1976. In our lives we have two possibilities: indulging in the world or going beyond the world. The Buddha was someone who was able to free himself from the […]

By Ajahn Chah: Given at Wat Nong Pah Pong to the assembly of monks and novices in October, 1968 Some of us start to practise, and even after a year or two, still don’t know what’s what. We are still unsure of the practice. When we’re still unsure, we don’t see that every thing around us is purely […]

By Arthur Braverman: While Shunryu Suzuki was igniting a Zen revolution in San Francisco in the late 1960s, Kosho Uchiyama was trying to foster a Zen reformation in Japan. It was perhaps an even more imposing challenge when one considers the power of the traditional Soto Zen sect in Japan. Both masters believed greatly in the power of […]

By Ajahn Chah: Today I would like to ask you all. ”Are you sure yet, are you certain in your meditation practice?” I ask because these days there are many people teaching meditation, both monks and lay people, and I’m afraid you may be subject to wavering and doubt. If we understand clearly, we will be able to […]

By Ajahn Chah: To calm the mind means to find the right balance. If you try to force your mind too much it goes too far; if you don’t try enough it doesn’t get there, it misses the point of balance. Normally the mind isn’t still, it’s moving all the time. We must strengthen the mind. Making the […]

By Ajahn Chah: We hear some parts of the teachings and can’t really understand them. We think they shouldn’t be the way they are, so we don’t follow them, but really there is a reason to all the teachings. Maybe it seems that things shouldn’t be that way, but they are. At first I didn’t even believe in […]

By Ajahn Chah: The things of this world are merely conventions of our own making. Having established them we get lost in them, and refuse to let go, giving rise to clinging to personal views and opinions. This clinging never ends, it is samsāra, flowing endlessly on. It has no completion. Now, if we know conventional reality then […]

By Narada Maha Thera: Thus have I heard, on one occasion the Exalted One was dwelling in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels’ Sanctuary, near Rajagaha. Now at that time, young Sigala, a householder’s son, rising early in the morning, departing from Rajagaha, with wet clothes and wet hair, worshipped with joined hands the various quarters — the East, the […]

By Lily de Silva: The dispensation of the Buddha includes not only monks and nuns, but male and female lay followers as well. All these four groups comprising the Buddhist community have but one ultimate goal. That goal is the attainment of Nibbana. Though Nibbana means final liberation from the world, while walking along the path to liberation a […]

By Ajahn Chah: A talk given to a group of Western Monks from Wat Bovornives, Bangkok, March 1977. N.B. in this translation heart is used where mind was used in the other translations. In the time of Ajahn Mun1 and Ajahn Sao2 life was a lot simpler, a lot less complicated than it is today. In those days […]

By Thānissaro Bhikkhu: I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the Sakyans at a Sakyan town named Devadaha. Then a large number of monks headed for outlying districts went to the Blessed One and on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As they were sitting there they said […]

By M.O’C. Walshe: Note: It is still often thought today that any form of belief in an afterlife is “unscientific.” To disarm any criticisms on that score, readers are referred to the Appendix in which the question is briefly treated The Great Unmentionable It is sometimes said that Death today has replaced Sex as “The Great Unmentionable,” and […]