I didn’t really mean to get back into thinking about Jatila Sayadaw. It just... happened. I was messing around in the corner of my room this afternoon—you know that kind of cleaning where you just shuffle piles from one side to the other without actually finishing anything? I found this scrap of paper. It had a few Burmese words on it, written … Read More

As I reflect tonight on the example of Bhante Gavesi, and his remarkable refusal to present himself as anything extraordinary. It is ironic that meditators often approach a teacher of his stature with all these theories and expectations they’ve gathered from books —desiring a structured plan or an elaborate intellectual methodology— but he ju… Read More