-6- Comments or Discourses by the Monks

~ By Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~

You can ask for comments and instructions from me at my hut or from some other monks. Every preacher here is knowledgeable in some aspects of Dhamma, and you can ask them about such aspects. There is always someone at Suan Mokkh who can answer your questions. If you need some advice or a lecture, just talk to them on any occasion as others usually do. I don’t think I have much to elaborate on this.

But most of those who do come for advice or help have already gone half-way into a psychiatric problem; they are no longer normal. Some come for holy water, a blow-out spray on the head or the like, but not for Dhamma, knowledge, advice, or discourse. Mostly they ask for what we don’t offer. They also don’t believe that we cannot do such things as sprinkling holy water and blowing it out on their heads. As for what we can offer, they don’t want it.

(From "Benefits You Should Get from Coming to Suan Mokkh," a talk given by Tan Ajahn in December 1988 at the request of Tan Dusadee Bhikkhu, as translated from the Thai by Aj. Mongkol Dejnakarintra.)

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“24 Benefits of Suan Mokkh,” is a series of weekly posts published to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the foundation of Suan Mokkh in May 1932 in Chaiya, southern Thailand.

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Buddhadāsa Indapañño Archives collection (Ref. L-53)