![]() ![]() We file into the hall and sit down in this same order. Monastics hold their alms bowls in a uniform way, and after serving ourselves just the right amount, we walk in procession to the meditation hall, keeping a meter’s distance between the person in front and behind us. He was sharing about how he practiced at formal lunch, the most formal experience of the whole week in monastery life: the community lines up in the dining hall in silence, in order of ordination, nuns and laywomen before one buffet table, and monks and laymen before another. Thầy told us a story once that I will never forget. ![]() ![]() In the stillness, I touched how he was always so free, and that now, having left this body, he could soar like a bird in the sky.īut in his heart, in the ultimate dimension, he was not caught in the form of that practice, not limited in any way by the ritual or ceremony. When I first learned Thầy had passed away, I paused and breathed. I have followed him for the last twenty-five years and he has totally changed my life, the lives of my family members, and the lives of so many others, offering us a clear path to grow our compassion and wisdom, to experience true happiness and transform our suffering, and to manifest the Buddha nature within us. I first met him when I was twenty-three, and I knew immediately he was the teacher I had been searching for. I am so grateful to have met Thầy and to have been able to spend fifteen years as his monastic student. ![]()
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