Every day a queue of people waits outside Ahba’s hut in northern Thailand, from all over Thailand and from a good deal further. They come for advice, for dhamma... » 

Every day a queue of people waits outside Ahba’s hut in northern Thailand, from all over Thailand and from a good deal further. They come for advice, for dhamma teaching or for meditation instruction from a Burmese monk whose lessons have almost never been written down.Wouter Doorn first joined that queue in 2007. He was a medical student, and he had been travelling for about thirty-two hours: a long flight, an even longer night on a wooden bench in a slow train, and a surprised bus driver who dropped him off in front of the monastery entrance. He stayed a month. After that he came back regularly, and four times he entered the monastic order.Ahba’s advice was clear from the very first day:“You choose, you decide. But meditating every day is important. If you go to school for one day, then not for a week, then for one day, you’ll quickly lose track of what the teacher is talking about. If you go to school every day, listen, read, and study, you’ll understand what the teacher is saying. The same goes for meditation. You must practise every day.”And that is what he did. Buddho is the record of twenty years of daily samatha meditation on buddho. Every day since 2005, without exception — alongside his studies, a job as a medical specialist and a family with two children. Whether it went easily or not. Whether it was quiet or not.The dull retreats and the good sessions, the doubts, the small breakthroughs, the setbacks. And above all Ahba’s words, as he heard them.“When the dhamma slowly reveals itself to you, slowly lets its light shine, then it is at its most beautiful.”With a foreword by Ajahn Sumedho.May your mind be clean and clear. «