Ep12: Meeting A Wandering Ascetic - Bhante Jason 

This is incredible. What an inspiring person.

A very inspirational monk. A true Gem/Jewel.

A diamond-like radiant clarity.

Dear Jason, thank u so much for this interview 🙏

Here's the poem recited at the end. Please comment with any clarifications. Last chance to see cosmic drama and dance Relax, you already hold the tickets In your breath is the deeper amends (immense?, amounts?) In your heart the rhythm In your mind the holy trance In your spine the lands of heaven This video moved me to tears.

I met a hermit monk in Vietnam who left his traditional medicine doctor career to become a wandering monk for twenty years before the government forced his order to stop wandering as a lifestyle. He then lived in the mountains for over 10 years. There is a medicant order in Vietnam that does this, living the life like how monks used to live during the time of the Buddha. This medicant order was founded in 1960’s by monk Minh Dang Quang. It integrates Theravada monk rules, teachings and living style with Mahayana teachings. The order ate vegetarian food, own or keeps no money, ate once a day and travel by foot daily sleeping at different places each day except during rain retreat.

The best interview I have seen in this channel. Thank you again, dear Guru Viking,

thank you for this interview! i am taking a Buddhism class right now and i am researching upon different topics, this video was extremely enlightening. i might take on the lens of Buddhist ascetic practices, such as homelessness.

I was thinking he's got great posture while listening, I don't think all sadhus smell or are crazy, some are incredibly disciplined but there's so many different kinds of sadhus, some practice what we might think of as crazy but its their practice, interesting conversation, it's always good to see a young man prepared to give everything worldly up to be a monk , thank you 😔

This guy has got a LONG LONG LONG way to go !

The commenting on wants and desires is very meaningful. We are literally boiling the world for stuff. It's a war on life itself. Why we have so much war. Buddhas those who dwell in Peace.

Very precious document. Thank you.

Wonderful interview

Great interview as always. Thank you for this 🙏

Loved this, thank you and Thank You to Bhante Jason

Great interview!

wonderful and insightful

Beautiful!🙏❤️

Wow, My best friend, Thank you for your hard work in making the video. I enjoyed the good video. Have a happy day.

Don't let fear hold you back

One of your best

Very interesting interview . The place is also very interesting . Yeah, Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation works have had a lot of influence on people .

It inspires me. It can be done. But I don't want to jump in yet.

I really wish I had the means to travel to Japan; India; Sri Lanka; and New York to find a guru who could teach me how to become a homeless ascetic who doesn't 'touch'' money...

Wonderful :)

That ending tho... Oof, great interview! Thanks, Guru Viking!

May three gems(Buddha Dharma Shanga) last long and long. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

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The transition from one stage of life to any higher stage of life Is always full of sacrifice

Oh man what a place

This man seems very very wise.

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Nice cave! I'm an introspective weird shape head too

I wonder which one of Bhikkhu Bodhi's books was the one that inspired him so much.

A lot of good thoughts but so much bitterness and presence of “I”, I wish compassion, wisdom(open mindedness)and love for this being 🙏

Very interesting to get a different perspective. I am watching all of your interviews, enjoying them very much. I am wondering, do you follow a particular school of Buddhism? 🙏🏻

Thanks for uploading. I wonder does he ever have a day where he has some sweets and watchs movies? Like once or twice a year.

interesting

I first saw this interview of yours and with your accent I thought you were from here. Next time you're here, let me know if you want to do some long hikes and sitting :)

It makes sense from his opinions that he is following his true path.

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Sadhus can be very peaceful and virtuous and beneficial. There was one who lived for a hundred years plus and was a student of Ramana Maharshi..He lived in the Himalayas.

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can someone explain the meaning on the last poem? sorry english isnt my first language

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Yes JAH... rasta far eye

"In your spine the lands of heaven" !? Has this anything to do with the fact that the spine is composed of 33 vertebrae ?? I'm wondering. With the number 33 having such spiritual significance.

Interesting to think that there are ascetics around the planet.

Does anyone know where Bhante Jason Is now?

Is this in australia?

thanks, but I didn't understood what he meant by dividends of celibacy

Is he still there?

Did Bhante Jason carry any mobile or laptop ?

Hi

The Buddha often spoke of the importance of physical seclusion (kaya-viveka) and simplicity as a foundation for liberation of the mind in samadhi (citta-viveka) and liberation from mental defilements (upadhi-viveka) the practice dhutanga, or Tudong is one of 13 aesthetic practices recommended hy the Buddha. The Thai Forest Tradition are still doing this and is the branch I practice because the teachings, Dhamma, is so clear. For anyone interested look into Ajahn Chah. Not sure what this person really is, those robes are not Saffron, Theravada robes. He should go to Wat Pah Nanachat. This is not how an authentic Buddhist monk behaves, he's very, very attached to his own created delusion (Anatta)

I actually found in a decade of study that Mahayana predated Theravada by a few hundred years and Theravada came about at around the third Buddhist council. Not only that, Pali is based on Sanskrit and the oldest Sutras found to date are all Sanskrit predating the first Pali by a few hundred years as well. I studied Historiology in order to better understand the flow of history and in Historiology you learn to dig back as far as you can in order to get as close to the original message or spirit of a teaching. The Theravada argument has been debunked now since the 1930's as more and more evidence mounted showing the true origins (by Scientists who are not Buddhists thus removing confirmation bias). I did originally subscribe to Theravada for awhile after I got started as a Jodo Shinshu Mahayana Buddhist, but neither of those seemed right after my deep studies of the origins of Buddhism. There is enough evidence now (though very scattered and hard to assemble) to show that not only was Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada all were not to accurate to the original Buddha-dharma as they all claim (typical of group based systems such as traditions) but there were at least two or three traditions prior to all of those. This Monk through his studies in Sociology and Psychology (prior to becoming a Buddhist) found that tradition is a form of strong attachment and should be avoided, just like the Buddha said to do so in some of the earliest Sutras from before the three traditions of the modern era. In order to truly experience the Buddha-dharma one must be free from all attachments especially group based traditions such as worshiping at Temples and/or Monasteries. The Rhinoceros Sutra is a text found in all three of the modern traditions but the earliest found version is in Sanskrit and dates back to 150 or so years after the Buddha passed and is one of the core Sutras this Monk follows. You can not find truth in groups because you will always follow a leader figure and that leader will say which texts are to be followed and which to be considered apocryphal, the Buddha said to not outright reject a Sutra one has not read first as it may contain good Dharma even if it contains some unwholesome qualities. This is why this Monk has made it a mission to find research and history from non-Buddhist sources as anyone who was Buddhist in a particular tradition is going to have cognitive bias and confirm their own tradition to be "closest to the Buddha-dharma" when in the very act of doing so they are defending a collective ego (group based ego) as well as reinforcing self ego, thus it is important to find outside materials study those and form ones practice based around the findings.

He's very judgemental about Sadhus, they are not all crazy, smelly, hash addicts. Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi just a few well known examples.

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