{"id":5928,"date":"2020-05-20T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:15:24","slug":"in-conversation-with-banthe-u-agga-at-isangha-on-30-may-lessons-from-the-jungle-the-freedom-of-a-simple-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2020\/05\/20\/in-conversation-with-banthe-u-agga-at-isangha-on-30-may-lessons-from-the-jungle-the-freedom-of-a-simple-life\/","title":{"rendered":"In conversation with Bhante U Agga at iSangha on 30 May: Lessons from the Jungle \u2013 The Freedom of a Simple Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are very warmly invited to join Bhante U Agga in conversation with Ayya Anopama at Tilorien\u2019s iSangha (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tilorien.org\/en\/isangha\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/tilorien.org\/en\/isangha\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) on Saturday 30 May from 9.30-11am CEST (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/converter.html?iso=20200413T171500&amp;p1=tz_cest&amp;p2=tz_eest&amp;p3=tz_west&amp;p4=tz_et&amp;p5=tz_ct&amp;p6=tz_mt&amp;p7=tz_pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see here for other time zones<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The session will also include meditation and time for Q&amp;A.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Covid-19 pandemic has faced many of us with major restrictions in our daily lives which, for some, has led to unease and distress. At the same time the situation has also allowed us to step back and re-evaluate our frantic, consumption-driven life styles full of distraction. We have had an opportunity to re-discover the beauties of a simple life and how gestures of kindness and generosity can brighten our own and others&#8217; lives.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhante U Agga and Ayya Anopama will explore the freedom that can come from the renunciation, simplification, and kindness encouraged by the Buddha and how the life style of a forest monastic can inspire us all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2-1170x658.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U-Agga-4-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Bhikkhu Agga<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (formerly known as Tjeerd Aukes, born in the Netherlands) started meditating in 2001 when he attended his first 10-day Vipassana retreat. Since then he has been practising regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2006 he travelled to India and Myanmar to deepen his meditation practice. He ordained as a Buddhist monk in 2011 in Myanmar and was given the name U Aggawamsa, shortened to U Agga. Since then he&#8217;s been staying in different places and settings across Myanmar, living a simple and solitaire life, mostly in forests and jungles, together with other monks, nuns and lay practioners or just by himself in a wooden hut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016 and 2019 he visited Europe for two months. He currently resides in a Forest Monastery in the North-East of Thailand.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are very warmly invited to join Bhante U Agga in conversation with Ayya Anopama at Tilorien\u2019s iSangha (http:\/\/tilorien.org\/en\/isangha\/) on Saturday 30 May from 9.30-11am CEST (see here for other time zones). The session will also include meditation and time&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2020\/05\/20\/in-conversation-with-banthe-u-agga-at-isangha-on-30-may-lessons-from-the-jungle-the-freedom-of-a-simple-life\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}