Buddho: Twenty Years of Samatha Meditation and the Lessons of My Burmese Teacher

Nowadays, people want everything fast, fast, fast. Even wisdom. We try to run along the Buddhist path instead of taking it one step at a time. Ahba makes it clear again and again that this is not how it works. Our desire for results is itself one of the greatest obstacles on the path.

Ahba speaks very little about his own past. What we know is that sometime in the 1950s he came walking out of the forests of Myanmar as a monk. At the sixth Buddhist council, where the monks of the Theravāda tr...