I Have No Home

 
The Mp3 recording from Wednesday 25th March 09 when Venerbale Sayadaw U Jotika stopped off in Bangkok to give a (much too rare) public talk, hosted by his publisher DMG Books is posted below (English only segments)
Sayadaw will be back in Bangkok at the end of June ‘09. If you enter your email in the [...]

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Notes from U Jotika’s last talk

On Wednesday 25th March Sayadaw U Jotika will be making a second public appearance here in Bangkok.
Some notes from one of the attendees at Sayadaw U Jotika’s previous talk here:
Calming things down:
“Get things ‘inside’ yourself calmed down, then the outside calms down.”
E.G. No need to send one’s mind out towards wars or crimes etc as [...]

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Wise People

Wise People
Sayadaw U Jotika, opened his Bangkok talk with some of his own experiences. He said that one of the very wisest people he had ever know was his mother – someone without a good education or scholarly understanding of Buddhism. He himself has spent a lot of time studying the scriptures and asking probing [...]

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Association with Fools

( Further comments on topics Sayadaw U Jotika raised in his talk here: Wise People )
Last night, July 2008, Sayadaw U Jotika graced us in Bangkok with a Dhamma Talk. He spoke in almost perfect English, stopping every few minutes for the Thai translation. However it seemed almost as if no translation were necessary, partly because, [...]

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Sayadaw U Jotika in Bangkok

Thursday 31st of July
Dhamma Talk in English, with Thai translation
with Sayadaw U Jotika
Bodhgaya Hall – close to Chit Lom BTS Station
6:30 pm start (no set finish time)
This is Sayadaw’s first talk in Thailand. He is a hugely respected master from Burma, whose Dhamma is lyrical, simple and precise. There are several books of his teachings, [...]

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