Ayya Khema

That we habituate these insights that...

Ayya Khema, a great, uh, German Buddhist nun, said, "You know, you can't hang on to your meditation states, but you should hang on to your insights." [laughs] "You should repeat them over in your mind." So it's like whatever you frequently think and ponder upon.

You know, when you real- when you have an insight about yourself, about the world, about reality, whatever, that you make that a theme.

I was talking about this yesterday toward the end of the retreat, like pick up a...

I also consulted the teaching of Tension Reb Anderson in his book, Being Upright, a book about the Bodhisattva precepts.

In his chapter on not speaking falsehoods, Reb also summarizes the Buddha's teaching on right speech as Aya Khema does.

Riv has a rather nuanced view in that he distinguishes between speech that is harmful versus speech that is hurtful.

So I'll read that part and you'll see how he makes that distinction.

Ajahn Chah ist einfach sehr bekannt, weil aus seiner, äh, Tradition, also er war der Lehrer von Westlern, die hier in den, nach England, in die Schweiz, nach Amerika gingen und dort, äh, thailändische Waldklöster aufbauten und Mönche, als Mönche da sind in unserer Zeit und oder als Nonnen.

Und Ayya Khema hatte da auch eine Verbindung dazu, auch wenn sie, sie kam ja aus, äh, Sri Lanka.

Da waren ihre Lehrer und die waren aus Thailand.

Aber die kannten sich natürlich.