Venerable ajahn chah monastery candy

Night is falling swiftly. The forest reverberates with the undulating buzz of countless crickets and the eerie rising wail of tropical cicadas. A few stars poke dimly through the treetops. Amid the gathering darkness there is a pool of warm light, thrown from a pair of kerosene lanterns, illuminating the open area below a hut raised up on stilts.

Beneath it, in the glow, a couple of dozen people are gathered around a small, solidly-built monk who is seated cross-legged on a wicker bench. The air is filled with a vibrant peace.

Ajahn Chah – Buddhavipassana Waldtempel วัดป่าพุทธวิปัสสนา

Venerable Ajahn Chah is teaching.

&#;Near the back, almost at the edge of the pool of light sits a stern-faced man in his thirties. He is half turned to one side, as if his presence there is uncomfortable, tentative. He is a local hard man &#; a nak leng. Deeply disdainful of all things supposedly religious he nevertheless has a grudging respect for Luang Por; probably stemming as much from the monk&#;s reputation for toughness and