{"id":11646,"date":"2023-11-23T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2024-09-08T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:05:45","slug":"experience-at-sumedharama-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/joestanski\/experience-at-sumedharama-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience at Sumedharama in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Stanski<\/p><h6>I would like to write about my experience staying at Sumedharama in Portugal for 2.5 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This is a monastery in the Ajahn Chah Thai Forest tradition, usually with about 4-6 lay friends visiting, 8-12 monks, and a lot of people that come for the night meditation. Its a really nice environment to practice in for people that know how to practice already and don&#8217;t need a lot of guidance. Ajahn Vajiro and Ajahn Appamado were available for some discussions in the afternoon and I got a lot of benefit talking to them, as well as talking to some of the other monks and lay practitioners during my stay.<\/p>\n<p>It really gave me a lot of time to reflect with space from my life at home. Also in terms of personal practice, I noticed a willingness to let go of the physical sensation of the breath and fall more calmin and looking into the other aspects of the 16 steps of anapanasati; the vedana, citta, and dhamma. Opening more to the mind in this way, and really noticing where the thoughts were arising from really brought a lot of clarity and confidence to my practice.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend a stay here to people; you can stay for one week on an initial visit, longer on subsequent visits.<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:nineallday00@gmail.com\">Email<\/a><\/p><p>Views: 103<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe StanskiI would like to write about my experience staying at Sumedharama in Portugal for 2.5 weeks. This is a monastery in the Ajahn Chah Thai Forest tradition, usually with about 4-6 lay friends visiting, 8-12 monks, and a lot of people that come for the night meditation. Its a really nice environment to practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"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":[143],"tags":[140,157],"class_list":["post-11646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreatexperiences","tag-dhamma-retreats","tag-personal-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15457,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions\/15457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}