Pointing to the Path
The community has shrunk in size yet again. Ajahn Abhinando has gone to Germany to visit his parents for a couple of weeks, leaving only four of us here at Harnham. However, we are being joined by Bhante Seelagawesi and a group of lay supporters until Sunday night, when our monastic silent week begins. Also, Ajahn Abhinando's newly-printed poetry book has arrived: copies will be available at the monastery but we probably better wait until Ajahn Abhinando returns on 24th June before giving them out.
A friend of the monastery sent us this photograph, after being inspired by one of Ajahn Munindo’s talks based around the acronym ‘P.A.T.H.’ (Patience, Awareness, Trust, and Honesty). If we are patient with our practice, cultivate awareness, have trust in the Buddha’s teachings, and look at ourselves honestly we can recognise and follow that which leads us to the Path: as Ajahn Chah said, “everything is teaching us”.
A friend of the monastery sent us this photograph, after being inspired by one of Ajahn Munindo’s talks based around the acronym ‘P.A.T.H.’ (Patience, Awareness, Trust, and Honesty). If we are patient with our practice, cultivate awareness, have trust in the Buddha’s teachings, and look at ourselves honestly we can recognise and follow that which leads us to the Path: as Ajahn Chah said, “everything is teaching us”.
