Ajahn Viradhammo 2025 09 19 Fall Galilee Retreat starts with precepts

Ajahn Viradhammo receives a request to give or lead the retreatants in ‘taking on’ the eight precepts for the length of the retreat.

After 7 minutes approximately he offers reflections on this path as a contemplative, a monk in the Thai Forest Sangha tradition of Ajahn Chah. It is from this perspective that ‘Luang Por Viradhammo speaks of his understanding of ‘homage’ to the Buddha and knowing the possibility of awakening in this life. This path brings optimism to his life as has living within the vinaya (the precepts taken on by the monks in a Buddhist Sangha) . . . . .