Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera

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Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera (1870-1949) ​

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Phra Ajaan Mun was born in 1870 in Baan Kham Bong, a farming village in Ubon Ratchathani province, northeastern Thailand. Ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1893, he spent the remainder of his life wandering through Thailand, Burma, and Laos, dwelling for the most part in the forest, engaged in the practice of meditation. He attracted an enormous following of students and, together with his teacher, Phra Ajaan Sao Kantasilo Mahathera (1861-1941), established the forest meditation tradition (the Kammatthana tradition) that subsequently spread throughout Thailand and to several countries abroad. He passed away in 1949 at Wat Suddhavasa, Sakon Nakhorn province. [Adapted from the Introduction to A Heart Released.] For more about Ajaan Mun and the history of the Kammatthana tradition, see the essay "The Customs of the Noble Ones," by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.​

The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas, by Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1995; 29k/9pp.) This poem, composed sometime in the 1930's, is one of the few known written teachings left to us by Ajaan Mun. ​

The Ever-present Truth: Teachings of Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, by Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1997; 21k/7pp.) Eight short fragments drawn from Ajaan Mun's sermons given during the last two years of his life. These fragments were originally appended to the book A Heart Released as part of a commemorative volume distributed at Phra Ajaan Mun's cremation in 1950. The selections included here comprise all of the passages dealing directly with the practice of virtue and meditation. ​

A Heart Released: The Teachings of Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, by Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1995; 58k/19pp.) Seventeen excerpts from Dhamma teachings delivered by Ajaan Mun in 1944-45.

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ha ha ha

"motana"


on the dictionary "motana" is

1. be pleased


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On the dictionary "anumotana" is

1. Congratulation
2. say amen

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And you choose someone to ask on webboard.


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Save the planet for another day
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Save the planet for another day
save alaska! let the caribou stay
Don't care what the governments say
they're all bought and paid for anyway
Save the planet for another day
hey big oil, what do you say?

We were runnin' through the night
Never knowin' if we would see the light
Paranoid schizophrenic visions
Livin' in fear of the wrong decisions

We got to wake up
We got to keep goin'
If they follow us
There's no way of knowin'

We got a job to do
We got to
Save mother earth

Be the ocean when it meets the sky
you can make a difference, if you really try
Be the magic in the northern lights
six days....six nights
Be the river as it rolls along
it has three eyed fish and it's smellin' strong
Be the rain you remember fallin'
be the rain, be the rain

Yeah rain was fallin' and we're soakin' wet
Hail is beatin' down on our heads
The wind is blowin' through our hair
Faces frozen in the frigid air

We got to get there
Alaska
We got to be there
Before the big machines

We got a job to do
We got to
Save mother earth

Dream the hunter on the western plain
the birds are all gone, where did they g
Dream the fisherman in his boat
he's comin' home empty, he's barely afloa
Dream the logger in the great northwest
they're runnin' out of trees, they got to give it a rest
(there's no other way to cut it)
Dream the farmer in the old heartland
corporate greed and chemicals are killin' the land

Next mornin' sun was up at dawn
She looked around and earth was gone
Dark visions he had last night
He needed peace, he needed light

He heard the rumble and
He saw the big machines
The green army rose
It was a bad dream

He had a job to do
He had to
Save mother earth

Be the ocean when it meets the sky
greek freighters are dumping crap somewhere right now
Be the magic in the northern lights
the ice is melting!
Be the river as it rolls along
toxic waste dumpin' from corporate farms
Be the rain you remember fallin'
be the rain, be the rain