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Source: WikiPedia: BuddhismAjahn Amaro (born 1956) is a Theravadin teacher and co abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Californias Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are the teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with traditional concentration and insight meditation techniques, as an effective way of dissolving stress.
Amaro was born Jeremy Horner in Kent. His father was one of Britains top dog trainers, and a judge at Crufts. Horner was educated at Lancing and Bedford College.
Apart from a certain interest in the theories of Rudolf Steiner, his principal enthusiasms were, by his own admission, pretty much those standard issue among skeptical students of the day: sex, drugs and rocknroll. Having managed to complete a degree in psychology and physiology, in 1978 he went on a tourist trip to Thailand.
Horner somehow found himself in the forest of northeast Thailand, at the monastery of Wat Pah Nanachat. Ajahn Chahs charismatic impact and the encouragement of the senior American monk Ajahn Sumedho were decisive. It changed his life. Having become a lay renunciate, four months later he became a novice and in 1979 he received upasampada from Ajahn Chah and took profession as a theravadin bhikkhu.
Amaro stayed in Thailand for two years, and then went back to England to help Sumedho establish Chithurst Monastery in West Sussex.
At the request of his abbot, in 1983 he moved to Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. He made the entire 830-mile journey on foot, chronicled in his 1984 volume Tudong: The Long Road North.
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You Mean I’m Going to Die Too? (by Ajahn Amaro)
There’s No Place Like Here (by Ajahn Sumedho)