| Author Quoted | Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno |
| Title Quoted | Wisdom Develops Samadhi / translated from Thai by Bhikkhu Pannavaddho |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/10/17 |
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| Quotation | The Thai Buddhist concept of sila, the "control of outgoing exuberance," is basic, somewhat like the Javanese rasa. There is a good pamphlet on the "Forest Wat," the idea of wisdom, beginning with sila. This small book, really only an extended article, "Wisdom Develops Samadhi" by the Venerable Acarya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno, a translation from the Thai published in Bangkok, is a spiritual masterpiece.[Note 9: While the Venerable Nanasampanno's essay may exist as a separate pamphlet in the Thai language, it appears almost certain that the text Merton read was the English translation by Bhikkhu Pannavaddho of Wat Pa-barn-tard, which appeared in the May 1967 issue of the magazine Visakha Puja.] The author is apparently, or was, one of the masters in the Ghai forest wats, abbot of Wat Pa-barn-tard in the jungle of north central Thailand. |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 212 |
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