Author name: Tahn Pamutto

Gradual Training Retreat

This month’s In-Person retreat, “The Gradual Training”, wrapped up this evening. It was wonderful having friends together in a comfortable space for two days of dedicated practice, and the first offering since monastics Bhante Sumano and Anagarika Drew arrived to spend the vassa in Western Mass. The retreat was themed around the Buddha’s method of […]

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Speedbumps and the Vassa

From Tahn Pamutto: “One of my root teachers, Luang Por Pasanno, once famously exclaimed, “It’s illegal to live simply in this country!” That became something of a running joke at Abhayagiri Monastery in northern California, where ever stricter building codes have made it incredibly expensive to build even the tiniest structure. You can’t just nail

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Refuges and Precepts

Leader: Yam ahaṃ vadāmi taṃ vadetha. Community: Āma Bhante.* Leader: Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato sammā‧sambuddhassa. Community: Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato sammā‧sambuddhassa. Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato sammā‧sambuddhassa. Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato sammā‧sambuddhassa. Leader, followed by Community, line by line: Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyam pi Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyam pi Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ

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When It Rains It Pours

Lots of news! News, like the rain, is rarely purely good or purely bad, but a mix of both. For instance, in the materialistic West, the approach to rain is often as the destroyer of vacations and the ruiner of fun. Hench the children’s rhyme – “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day!” Yet

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