Ajahn Viradhammo 2025 09 19 Fall Galilee Retreat starts with precepts

Ajahn Viradhammo receives a request to give/lead the retreatants in taking on the eight precepts for the length of the retreat. After which ( 7 minutes approximately) he offers reflections on this path as a contemplative, a monk in the Thais Forest tradition of Ajahn Chah. Ajahn V talks to his understanding of ‘homage’ to the Buddha and living his life knowing the possibility of awakening in this life. This path has brought optimism to his life as has living within the vinaya (the precepts taken on by the monks in a Buddhist Sangha) . . . . .

Ottawa Buddhist Society · Ajahn Viradhammo 2025 09 19 Fall Galilee Retreat begins with a request for the eight precepts