Ayya Khema Talks and retreats Collection - Ayya Khema torrent

Category: Spiritual & Religious
Language: EnglishKeywords: Theravada Buddhism
Written by Ayya Khema
Read by Ayya Khema
Format: MP3
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Ayya Khema’s monastic life path required strict renunciation, but it was also laced through with joy. Her most distinctive meditation practice was the jhanas, the eight stages of absorption taught by the Buddha and generally ignored by contemporary Western Theravada teachers. I see her as she was on Nuns Island, a round-bodied, shaven-headed woman wrapped in a brown robe, seated at the front of the room before the mural of nuns and devas, before the skeleton grinning from a hook on the wall. Eyes closed, Ayya Khema lifted her face with a look of such sweet ecstasy that I had no doubt she was experiencing the blissful states she had been trying to teach us to access: delight, joy and peace.
https://www.buddhanet.net/masters/ayya-khema.htm

Ayya Khema’s monastic life path required strict renunciation, but it was also laced through with joy. Her most distinctive meditation practice was the jhanas, the eight stages of absorption taught by the Buddha and generally ignored by contemporary Western Theravada teachers. I see her as she was on Nuns Island, a round-bodied, shaven-headed woman wrapped in a brown robe, seated at the front of the room before the mural of nuns and devas, before the skeleton grinning from a hook on the wall. Eyes closed, Ayya Khema lifted her face with a look of such sweet ecstasy that I had no doubt she was experiencing the blissful states she had been trying to teach us to access: delight, joy and peace.