An Immense World
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Aug 26, 2026
AmaroHOST
So the, the Buddha's teaching is bringing attention to the body is say, "Look, [chuckles] th- this is not a guaranteed thing." Uh, last year I had a TIA, a temporary ischemic attack, and, uh, I'm quite a wordy person, and many of you will know this story already.
AmaroHOST
But, uh, so I, I was reading, uh, a passage from a book on, uh, that Luang Por Busana and I did called The Island about Nibbana, [chuckles] the Buddhist teachings on Nibbana, preparing to give an evening reading right from kind of this spot.
AmaroHOST
And as I was, uh, reading this sentence i- in The Island, my, um, my brain stopped being able to read.
AmaroHOST
I got to, uh...
AmaroHOST
"Oh, interesting." [chuckles] I didn't, I w- didn't feel upset or, or, or anxious.
AmaroHOST
It was just, "Oh, wow, that's... maybe that's the end.
AmaroHOST
Maybe I've written the last book I'm gonna write, or maybe I've read the last book I'm gonna read." [chuckles] But, uh, there go the words.
AmaroHOST
And, uh, then giving the, the reading that evening was interesting.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
So, uh, and in this respect, uh, I, I mentioned in one or two talks already, during my, my year-long retreat, I, I read quite a few books, and one of them was, uh, I'm quite fond of popular science books.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And one of the ones that I read was by a man called Ed Yong, Y-O-N-G, uh, called An Immense World.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And it's a, a, a description of the way different beings, different living beings, um, spiders, whales, elephants, ostriches, fishes, uh, experience the, the world and the extraordinary variety of sensory field, experiential fields that different living beings have.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And he describes the scientists as well as the, the, [chuckles] the experiments they're doing and the, the different creatures that they're studying.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
Uh, how vast variety, uh, how vast a variety there is of ways that individual beings sense the, the, the f- the, the world around them, the, uh, and the world that they fabricate through sound, through vibration, through smell, um, uh, through, through hearing, through vision in, in different kinds of spectra and, and so on and so forth.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
So again, uh, I'm, I, I'm not, um, I haven't got a, a, uh, royalty or anything for, for the book, [chuckles] but I'm not shy to recommend it.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
But it's called An Immense World by Ed Yong.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And, uh, it's one of those things like, "Wow.