☸ Ajahn Chah / Ajahn Sumedho / The Buddha comes to Sussex / BBC Documentary☸

This is a documentary about the early days of the opening of the Cittaviveka, or Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, in West Sussex, England, which was begun in 1979 under the auspices of Ajahn Chah.
🧘 My personal reading recommendations for spiritual and personal growth:
🕮 Ajahn Chah / Collected Teachings / Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah / amzn.to/3vQYAO0
🕮 Daniel M. Ingram / Mastering the core teachings of the buddha / amzn.to/3P9zJMf
🕮 John Yates (Culadasa) / The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness / amzn.to/3dlfnCk
🕮 Sadhguru / Inner engineering: A yogi's guide to joy / amzn.to/3vRKnR4
🕮 Jack Kornfield / Living Dharma: Teachings and Meditation Instructions from Twelve Theravada Masters / amzn.to/3SAftGD
🕮 Philip Kapleau / The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment / amzn.to/3zL8vGc

[@keithmann101]

Wonderful to see this. As a former lay member of both Chithurst and Amaravati in Hemel Hemstead it was great to see Ajahn Sumhedu as a relatively young man - he's now in his eighties!

[@fingerprint5511]

90 this year 🙏

[@yoya4766]

Monastic rules have fallen by the wayside at Amaravati, where the surviving monks from this video now live. They have adapted rules to suit themselves, rules that had been practised for 2500 years.

[@jamestoh6804]

Cannot imagine those insults , doubts and jokes made around the monks by the majority when they were there. These won’t be captured in the video. And this is the essence of Buddhism, there is no ME, everything is impermanent. Arjan Chah is a legendary monk in thailand and it’s hard to even find him in thailand jungle but he was here in an England village without much people really knowing his identity.

[@angusgus123]

Quite exquisite heights of dreadfulness reached by certain of the parishioners of Chithurst here. How nice that the friendly, open-minded kind of Englishness prevailed.

[@FreeFree23]

I could also ask why those clergymen in England came to our country which had its own culture and spirituality also????????

[@Strygea]

This is what the Buddha called attachment to opinions and views. When someone is convinced that their point of view is true and that the rest is false (Pastor Carter in this video is the perfect example), unfortunately this kind of consequence (imposing one's views on others like the Christian missions during colonization which as being the Truth) can happen and only suffering results.

[@seanmacleod1724]

This is one of the great things in this journey of mine. The pioneering Thai Forest tradition in Britain.....
We're ordinary people really THAT posh during my childhood ?!! 😊

[@noonespecial4171]

Very clear version thank you. Ajahn Sumedho aged 45 there, still going aged 88, RIP Ajahn Anando Greg Klein who had Pneumonia there. Ajahn Viradhammo - dark glasses aged 32, and Ajahn Sucitto aged 30, still going too. Anyone know who that is at 13:20?

[@Buddhist.Teachings]

Thanks for the insights. Didn't catch all the faces. Unfortunately I don't know about the monk either. Maybe we will find someone watching who does?

[@Kissingspell]

These guys are truly Heroes.

[@fingerprint5511]

@@Buddhist.Teachings the small monk with large ears is Kittisaro who disrobed however still uses this name and teaches Dhamma. 39:49 the fourth monk - and Doris the cat!

[@helapower]

Triple Gem Bless !

[@ay2257]

Ah people can be so distrustful of differences and new things, I'm glad the Buddhists kept going despite that and showed nothing but kindness in return

[@SA-ww1ge]

It’s wonderful to see men drawn to a wholesome life. Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@dukkhamanavar9857]

What is the name of the monk doing saw work at 13:19? Is it Ajahn Tharanjabo?

[@yoya4766]

Does anyone know the name of the monk speaking at 33:00?

[@IrateMoogle]

7:40 I would have liked to seen Ajahn Chah's response to all the negative responses to their settling in Sussex.

[@Earth-360]

I am so fortunate to see Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Viradammo and Ajahn sucitto here. They clearly changed my life for better. These are the greatest human beings walked on the planet in my time. 50 years later, we are seeing the results of their hard labour. 🙏🙏🙏

[@deepikakedare2141]

🪷🪷🪷🙏🙏🙏

[@lukemckean6155]

It must’ve been as much a culture shock for the thai monks as for the local pommies haha

[@paragozar]

Thanks for posting!

[@lukemckean6155]

Don’t think old Pastor Carter was too happy 😂

[@oldhat6100]

5:26 Hopefully the monks stayed calm and didn’t have a fit when they saw him standing there with a wooden spear!

[@deliavonpflug1051]

So interesting to watch! Thank you for uploading. Sadhu 😊🙏

[@jenikuok4775]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you for sharing

[@sylwui]

sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@sgk8017]

Sadhu anumodana..❤

[@atcharasutti8968]

🙏🙏🙏