Ajahn Pasanno: 30 Years a Monk
Fearless Mountain: What was your early religious experience?
Ajahn Pasanno: I was raised in northern Manitoba, miles north of the U.S. border. My religion was Anglican, which is Episcopalian in the U.S. I had a good experience growing up as a Christian. It was a small town and a small church. My family was reasonably devout. My father had grown up in the United Church, and we took religious classes together. But by the time I was 16 or 17, I found it difficult to maintain any kind of faith. I stopped going to church and taking communion. I started to look for alternatives.
FM: Did you ever think you would become a monk?
AP: I certainly didn&#;t spend my years growing up dreaming of becoming a monk. However, I definitely had an attraction to religion, and the mystique of hermits interested me. But there were no Buddhists in northern Manitoba, or even in Winnipeg, where I attended university. However, I did take an Eastern religions class, which covered Buddhism. This reading motivated me to continue the search. When I finished university, I had a vague idea to study Buddhism some more. I was looking for a way to learn to meditate since
My Life as a Bhikkhu
by Ajahn Punnadhammo
My lay name is Michael Dominksyj. I was born in the year in the city of Toronto, Canada to working class immigrant parents. We were a Catholic family, but neither of my parents were very religious.
I certainly did not know anything about Buddhism. And yet there were signs of a connection. In the city of Toronto there was a very fine museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, which housed a superb collection of Asian art among other treasures. While other children my age were more interested in the dinosaurs and the Eygptian mummies, I felt an unexplained attraction to the Buddha images in the Chinese section. It gave me a deep feeling of peace to gaze on these serene figures. I recall asking an adult about them and the only answer I got was “That is the Chinese idea of God.”
About the same time, or a little later, I read in an encylopedia we had at home that Buddhism taught the goal of life was to seek Nirvana, which that old-fashioned British text defined as “a way of becoming happy by ceasing to exist, which is the sort of idea that only an Asiatic could understand.” I remember thinking at the time that there must be more to it than heles
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Ajahn Pasanno took ordination in Thailand in with Venerable Phra Khru Ñāṇasirivatana as preceptor. During his first year as a monk he was taken by his teacher to meet Ajahn Chah, with whom he asked to be allowed to stay and train. One of the early residents of Wat Pah Nanachat, Ajahn Pasanno became its abbot in his ninth year. During his incumbency, Wat Pah Nanachat developed considerably, both in physical size and reputation. Spending twenty-four years living in Thailand, Ajahn Pasanno became a well-known and highly respected monk and Dhamma teacher. he moved to California on new year’s eve of to share the abbotship of Abhayagiri with Ajahn Amaro. In Ajahn Amaro accepted an invitation to serve as abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. Ajahn Pasanno is now the sole abbot of Abhayagiri.”
Excerpt From: Ajahn Pasanno. “Don&#;t Hold Back.”
Ajahn Pasanno took ordination in Thailand in with Venerable Phra Khru Ñāṇasirivatana as preceptor. During his first year as a monk he was taken by his teacher to meet Ajahn Chah, with whom he asked to be allowed to stay and train. One of the early residents of Wat Pah Nanachat, Ajahn Pasanno became its abbot in his ninth year. During his incumbency Wat Pah Nanachat developed considerably, both in physical size and in reputation. Ajahn Pasanno became a well-known and highly respected monk and Dhamma teacher in Thailand. Ajahn Pasanno moved to California on New Year's Eve of to share the abbotship of Abhayagiri with Ajahn Amaro. In , Ajahn Amaro accepted an invitation to serve as abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. Ajahn Pasanno is now sole abbot of Abhayagiri.
Ajahn Pasanno took ordination in Thailand in with Venerable Phra Khru Ñāṇasirivatana as preceptor. During his first year as a monk he was taken by his teacher to meet Ajahn Chah, with whom heRead more
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