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A Still Forest Pool
A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
A thematic anthology of sayings and talk fragments gathered by Jack Kornfield and Paul Breiter, both former monks in his monasteries. Arranged by theme—right understanding, meditation, monastic life, questions and answers—it made Ajahn Chah an author known beyond Buddhist circles. The title comes from his image of the attentive mind growing still like a clear forest pool where strange animals come to drink.
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Authorship note
Ajahn Chah did not write this work: these are talks given in Thai or the Isan dialect, recorded on cassette and transcribed and translated by his disciples. Compiled and edited by Jack Kornfield and Paul Breiter.
Editions and translations
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English
A Still Forest Pool
Quest Books, 2004
ISBN 9780835605977
A Still Forest Pool
Theosophical Publishing House, 1985
ISBN 0835605973
Compilación y edición de Jack Kornfield y Paul Breiter
Other works by Ajahn Chah
- Fragments of a Teaching · 1972
- A Taste of Freedom · 1980
- Bodhinyana · 1982
- Living Dhamma · 1992
- Food for the Heart (1992 collection) · 1992
- A Tree in a Forest · 1994
- No Ajahn Chah · 1994
- The Path to Peace · 1996
- Clarity of Insight · 2000
- Being Dharma · 2001
- Food for the Heart · 2002
- Unshakeable Peace · 2003
- Everything Is Teaching Us · 2004
- Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away · 2005
- The Teachings of Ajahn Chah · 2007
- Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks · 2007
- In Simple Terms · 2010
- The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah · 2011
- On Meditation · 2018
- The Training of the Heart
- Our Real Home
- Beyond Cause and Effect · 1990
Sources
- Kornfield, Jack; Breiter, Paul (comp. y ed.). A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah. Wheaton (IL): Theosophical Publishing House / Quest Books, 1985.
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