Kittisaro, from Tennessee, is a Princeton graduate and Rhodes Scholar and a Buddhist practitioner for over 35 years including 15 years as a Theravada monk in the Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He is also a practitioner of Pure Land and Chan Buddhism. He teaches Meditation and is director of Dharmagiri Hermitage & Outreach in South Africa. He has completed two year long retreats.
Direct knowing of emptiness
Between existence and nihilism
Emptiness isn’t empty, wonderful existence doesn’t exist
Grasping & papanca is the root of birth and death
Surface & depth of ocean is all water
Change of lineage from reliance on papanca to pure knowing
Angulimala and original hua t’ou – STOP