Talks With Scott Mandelker Podcast: September 2025

0933 - TALKS: Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, IV

Episode 0933 - Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, IV
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Introduction to the Thai Forest Tradition and core Buddhist principles, from Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (compiled by Ajahn Munindo, 2011). Commentary on the Introduction from Ajahn Amaro (pages xi-xiii), focused on Ajahn Chah's life, legacy & teachings.

References from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Bhagawan Nityananda & Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, yogic systems & Western metaphysics.

* Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF original): https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/Chah_The_Collected_Teachings_of_Ajahn_Chah.pdf

* Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF from Access to Insight): https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/the_teachings_of_ajahn_chah_web.pdf

* Maya (Sanskrit word, etymology): https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/maya

- Mata: https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/mata#sanskrit

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0932 - TALKS: Enduring till the End

Episode 0932 - Enduring till the End
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Comments on the Biblical teachings of 'endurance in the End Times' -- with reference to Matthew 24:13, Greek etymology of the keyword hypomeno, and selected wisdom quotes from multiple sources.

Additional references from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, Christian & Western metaphysics.

* Matthew 24:13 (Bible Hub, interlinear): https://biblehub.com/interlinear/matthew/24-13.htm

* Hypomeno (etymology):

- https://resoundingthefaith.com/2023/07/15/greek-%E1%BD%91%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%89-hypomeno-latin-perseverare-latin-sustinere-latin-permanere-latin-remanere-latin-patiens-latin-sufferere-french-persister/#:~:text=Greek%20Hellenism:%20This%20term%20means%20to%20stay,stand%20firm%2C%20to%20bear%2C%20and%20to%20suffer

- https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/hypomeno

SELECTED QUOTATIONS:

* “It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.” - George Orwell

* Matthew 13:15 > "For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them."

* “The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” - Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)

* “The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people.” -- Carl Jung

* "Our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.” - Carl Jung

* "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Fyodor Dostoevsky

0931 - TALKS: Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, III

Episode 0931 - Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, III
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Introduction to the Thai Forest Tradition and core Buddhist principles, from Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (compiled by Ajahn Munindo, 2011). Commentary on the Introduction from Ajahn Amaro (pages ix-xi), focused on Ajahn Chah's life, legacy & teachings.

References from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Bhagawan Nityananda & Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, yogic systems & Western metaphysics.

* Ajahn Mun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Mun

* Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF original): https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/Chah_The_Collected_Teachings_of_Ajahn_Chah.pdf

* Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF from Access to Insight): https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/the_teachings_of_ajahn_chah_web.pdf

* ADDITIONAL RESOURCES *

1. ALL TALKS MIRROR SITES

https://www.scottmandelker.ca/

2. OLD ARCHIVE SITE

https://www.scottmandelker.com

3. TALKS WITH SCOTT MANDELKER (Non-RA Podcasts)

http://talkswithscottmandelker.blogspot.com

4. LAW OF ONE PODCAST (RA Material+ Series)

http://thelawofonepodcast.blogspot.com

5. ESSAYS, RA MATERIAL & CORE PDF-COMPILATIONS

https://talkswithscottmandelker.com/pdf_files#_=_

https://www.sites.google.com/view/teachingsfromtheself

6. ALL YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS

https://www.youtube.com/user/TWSMandelker/playlists

7. AUDIO BOOKS PROJECT (UV, 2150, NOSSO LAR, AVHM)

https://imagine2150.org/

https://soundcloud.com/spiritual-books-project/sets

0930 - TALKS: Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, II

Episode 0930 - Ajahn Chah & Core Buddhism, II
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Introduction to the Thai Forest Tradition and core Buddhist principles, from Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (compiled by Ajahn Munindo, 2011). Commentary on the Introduction from Ajahn Amaro (pages vii-viii), with Ajahn Chah's views on Four Noble Truths.

References from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Bhagawan Nityananda & Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, yogic systems & Western metaphysics.

* Ajahn Mun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Mun

* Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF original): https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/Chah_The_Collected_Teachings_of_Ajahn_Chah.pdf

* Teachings of Ajahn Chah (PDF from Access to Insight): https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/the_teachings_of_ajahn_chah_web.pdf

* Ajahn Sumedho (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Sumedho

* ADDITIONAL RESOURCES *

1. ALL TALKS MIRROR SITES

https://www.scottmandelker.ca/

2. OLD ARCHIVE SITE

https://www.scottmandelker.com

3. TALKS WITH SCOTT MANDELKER (Non-RA Podcasts)

http://talkswithscottmandelker.blogspot.com

4. LAW OF ONE PODCAST (RA Material+ Series)