{"id":16641,"date":"2025-06-17T12:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=16641"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:16:26","slug":"phra-ajahn-sao-kantasilo-mahathera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/solongsilvers\/phra-ajahn-sao-kantasilo-mahathera\/","title":{"rendered":"Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew (solo)<\/p><h6><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/97\/Kammatthana_Yantra.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"272\" \/><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #993366;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera (1861-1941)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16593\" src=\"https:\/\/buddho.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ajahn-Sao-Enhanced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">Ajahn Sao and his student Ajahn Mun established the Kammatthana tradition. A true forest-dweller, Ajahn Sao left no written records of his teachings. Fortunately for us, another of his students &#8212; Phra Ajahn Phut Thaniyo &#8212; recorded &#8220;Ajahn Sao&#8217;s Teaching: A Reminiscence of Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo&#8221;, which offers us a glimpse of Ajahn Sao&#8217;s terse but powerful teaching style.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestmeditation.com\/teachings\/forest_tradition\/sao\/ajaan_teaching.html\">https:\/\/www.forestmeditation.com\/teachings\/forest_tradition\/sao\/ajaan_teaching.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>With Respect to the Buddha, Dhamma &#038; Sangha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:solongsilvers@gmail.com\">Email<\/a><\/p><p>Views: 33<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew (solo) Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera (1861-1941) &nbsp; Ajahn Sao and his student Ajahn Mun established the Kammatthana tradition. A true forest-dweller, Ajahn Sao left no written records of his teachings. Fortunately for us, another of his students &#8212; Phra Ajahn Phut Thaniyo &#8212; recorded &#8220;Ajahn Sao&#8217;s Teaching: A Reminiscence of Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo&#8221;, which offers us a glimpse of Ajahn Sao&#8217;s terse but powerful teaching style. https:\/\/www.forestmeditation.com\/teachings\/forest_tradition\/sao\/ajaan_teaching.html With Respect to the Buddha, Dhamma &#038; Sangha. EmailViews: 33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[160,34,158],"class_list":["post-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhamma-lesson","tag-meditation-technique","tag-motivation","tag-teachers","post-no-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16642,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}