38 min
Talk
Natural Truth
Dhamma as something found in nature rather than in a scripture.
About the teacher
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
Thai monk and reformer (1906–1993) who founded the forest monastery Suan Mokkh and spent sixty years stripping Thai Buddhism back to what he thought the Buddha actually said. He held that anyone who has seen into the heart of the religions finds them inwardly the same, and that at the highest understanding there is no religion at all.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
62 min
Talk
Anattā and Rebirth
His reading of rebirth once no-self is taken seriously, which is not the usual one.
67 min
Talk
The Prison of Life
An hour on the cell we build ourselves and call a self.
52 min
Talk
The Heart of Buddhism
What he thought the whole teaching comes down to, in one complete talk.
Path
The wider context.
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Early teachings & modern insight
Theravada & Insight
Early Buddhist monastic traditions alongside the modern Insight movement, related, but kept distinct in the underlying data.
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