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Title: Bhante Johann's tradition, history, biogr... (open to ask)
Post by: gus on October 05, 2018, 02:51:08 PM
Okasa vandami bhante,
I will be very much grateful if you could give some information about your tradition, teacher and lifestyle. And if you don't think a burden , then about your personal history as well.
Vandami bhante.
Title: Re: Bhante's tradition
Post by: Dhammañāṇa on October 05, 2018, 04:33:44 PM
In short:
Refuge taken(/asked gone to) under the Sublime Tripple Gems. Tradition: Dhamma-Vinaya of the Buddha Teacher: the Sublime Buddha Lifestyle: Pabbajita, Brahmacariya, Dhutanga (12), currently settled a little at a given, suitable place.
Personal history: that's a never ending story if trying and difficult to express so that it is not wrong taken => a beginning can not be found. Some different approaches, and parts can be found here:
Johann sagt Hallo (http://forum.sangham.net/index.php/topic,53.0.html) (before taking the robes given by the Sangha)
[Kuti] Johann (provisorisch) [Impressions since wearing the robes of the Sangha) (http://forum.sangham.net/index.php/topic,1326.0.html)
Al(t)tagsgeschichten (http://forum.sangham.net/index.php/topic,1968.0.html) (some day in, day out stories)
Thmo Duk (Schiffsfelsen), Aural, Cambodia, អាស្រម ថ្មទូក ស្រុកឪរ៉ាល់][Ashram] Thmo Duk (Schiffsfelsen), Aural, Cambodia, អាស្រម ថ្មទូក ស្រុកឪរ៉ាល់ (http://[Ashram) (impressions from current dwelling place and daily life)
Samana Johann (http://accesstoinsight.eu/user/johann/index) (short indroduction for people not so familar with Dhamma-Vinaya)
more formal indroduction toward Bhikkhus (http://forum.sangham.net/index.php/topic,8784.0.html#footnote1)
If wishing to know something in detail, what ever, one should not hesitage to ask.
/me : Just to let know: It's costum in this tradition, costume and economy toward liberation, to always give fist, especially toward those worthy of gifts. Otherwise on occasions like entering, if one is hungry, if one is sick.
A general talk on privacy, personal data, anonymous... in regard of monks (homeless contemplatives, "beggars" living from alms of the land) can be listened here (German):
Title: Re: Bhante Johann's tradition, history, biogr... (open to ask)
Post by: gus on October 05, 2018, 08:31:10 PM
Okasa Bhante,
I read the given links as much as possible. /me I got headache after fast-reading long threads.
Since it is not suitable to say something like "all the best", I would quote some passages from late venerable theros.
Quote from: Pure Inspiration - Ven. Nyanavimala (http://ven-nyanavimala.buddhasasana.net/texts/10-bhantes-advice.htm)
The Saṅgha is in decline, so one has to make the effort oneself. As long as one is making the effort, paṭisota (against the stream), one is doing the proper thing as a member of the Saṅgha. Even if the whole Saṅgha is corrupt, one knows at least one person is making the effort.
There is no other special advice to be given for abandoning this mass of suffering which does not leave this samsaric existence, than to be as heedful in doing skilful deeds as one whose head is on fire, is in trying to put out that fire.
Vandami.
Title: Re: Bhante Johann's tradition, history, biogr... (open to ask)
Post by: Dhammañāṇa on October 05, 2018, 08:49:52 PM
When wanderer gus can make good discerned and to the point questions, than short and simple answer may follow, but if he does not really know what he likes to know and not of what purpose it's raised, then what ever answer can be only astray as his questions.
To start to help to bring it to a point:
Why does he likes to know? For what purpose? And what exactly?
Title: Re: Bhante Johann's tradition, history, biogr... (open to ask)
Post by: gus on October 05, 2018, 09:05:00 PM
Why does he likes to know? For what purpose? And what exactly?
I got to know what I liked - for many purposes - and exactly what I needed.
Vandami.
/me Satisfied.
Title: Re: Bhante Johann's tradition, history, biogr... (open to ask)
Post by: Dhammañāṇa on October 05, 2018, 09:34:09 PM
Mudita and may the found be supportive to see things as they really "are" (arise and decay), the cause, do the way beyond, and gain then release from them, for yourself.