Ayya Khema - Who Am I Really ? Impermanence As An Inner Reality

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Ayya Khema (August 25, 1923 - November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher, and the first Western woman to become a Theravadin Buddhist nun. She was very active in providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, founding several centers around the world. In 1987 she coordinated the first ever Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Over two dozen books of her transcribed dhamma talks in English and German have been published, and in the last year of her life she also wrote her autobiography: I Give You My Life.
Born as Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany in 1923 to Jewish parents. In 1938, her parents escaped from Germany and traveled to China while plans were made for Khema to join two hundred other children emigrating to Glasgow, Scotland. After two years in Scotland, Khema joined her parents in Shanghai. With the outbreak of the war, Japan conquered Shanghai and the family was moved into the Shanghai Ghetto in Hongkew where her father died five days before the war ended.
At age twenty-two, Khema married a man seventeen years her senior named Johannes and they moved to an apartment in the Hongkou District. In 1947, her first child, a daughter named Irene, was born. As the People's Liberation Army were on the cusp of taking Shanghai, Khema and her family fled for San Francisco, California, United States. From San Francisco, Khema moved to Los Angeles and then San Diego where she gave birth to her second child, a son named Jeffrey.
Soon, Khema began feeling incomplete and this led to investigating various spiritual paths, an interest her husband didn't share. This led to their divorce. Khema moved with her infant son to Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico to study the philosophy of the Essenes with Professor Edmund Skekely. There she married her second husband, Gerd. The whole family soon became vegetarian, a practice Khema continued until her death.
The three traveled for years, visiting South America, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, then settling in Sydney, Australia where Khema began to study with Phra Khantipalo.
To further her studies, Khema traveled to San Francisco to study Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center and worked at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for three months. She then spent three weeks in Burma where she studied meditation with students of U Ba Khin.
In 1978, Khema founded the Wat Buddha Dhamma forest monastery in New South Wales and installed Phra Khantipalo as abbot
Khema's desire to become a Buddhist nun led her to Thailand where she studied with Tan Ajahn Singtong for three months. Sri Lanka was her next destination where she met Nyanaponika Thera who introduced her to Narada Maha Thera. Naranda Thera gave her the name "Ayya Khema".
A 1983 return trip to Sri Lanka, led her to meet her teacher, Ven. Matara Sri Ñānarāma of Nissarana Vanaya, who inspired her to teach jhana meditation. As it was not possible at the time to organize an ordination ceremony for bhikkhunis in the Theravada tradition, Ayya Khema then received complete monastic ordination at the newly built Hsi Lai Temple, a Chinese Mahayana temple under the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, in 1988.
Khema was one of the organizers of the first International Conference on Buddhist Women in 1987 which led to the foundation of the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women.
Dhamma Talk

[@lordbyron3603]

Her physical body may not be with us anymore .... but her talks and teachings live on !

[@BillSikes.]

I know she's no longer with us, but her teachings have helped me through out my life for the last 25 years, and continue do do so, When The Iron Eagle Flies is an old friend and a companion that I take with me wherever I go, I've grown to fully understand the teaching within and it has released me from so many Demons, these days my life's an adventure and I feel truly blessed, I owe it all to this Buddhist Nun, Ayah Kheema I Salute you

[@jacehebert2962]

It's a beauty so pure that we can all harmlessly benefit. I realized only takes an open mind to set the heart free. This is the first time listening to this teacher, but other teachers have done to me what she has done for you. It is very inspiring to see other people benefited by these teachers. The amount of radiant goodness that shines on all beings, even if they are not aware of it, is indescribable.

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How can i get hold of the book Iron Eagle Flies ?

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[@poorvasharma8807]

I have just discovered her and she seems so comprehensive, compassionate and so well and deeply established in the meditation. Could you kindly suggest some books of hers on meditation?

[@hooi-linlau6791]

So blessed i found her...🙏🙏🙏

[@luvsuneja]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu. Thank you for sharing this gem of a talk.

[@Rover08]

00:52 Always use the path of tranquility first, then investigate

[@praaht18]

Very well said. Well said, well said.

[@lordbyron3603]

Life is a joke ... a sham! But the only ones laughing are Buddhist monks and nuns.

[@poetryjones7946]

Poor sound, great talk. Is there any way you can reload at a louder volume? 🙏🏼🌹

[@Abornazine_]

Eric Cartman it has closed captioning

[@SamZeroKG]

Perhaps you can use a headphone

[@vancan9686]

You can find a better sound quality of the same recording at Aya Khama Dhamma tube, Day 11

[@25bmax]

Are those ghost or spirits consider to be as consciousness?

[@stevenkok1926]

Shadu Shadu Shadu.

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Steven Kok