Meditation Maverick - Adam Mizner

[Dharmapala]

Hi,

I have seen this guy (Adam Mizner) is being heralded as somewhat of a modern meditation master.

He is known as an internationally famous Taiji Quan master, who teaches a variety of meditation techniques (standing, moving, sitting)

He lists, Ajahn Jomnien as his main teacher and said has experience in the Ajahn Chah tradition as well as non Buddhist systems such as Taoism, Western hermetics, various types of Chinese Kung Fu and Qi Gong.



some of the statements about, Ajahn Jomnien, seem a bit far fetched such as "carrying a 70kg bag of amulets around all day" him having the ability to enter the jhanas at will for 30 hours at a time at 9 years old, did not lie down to sleep for 9 years and many others.

I mean absolutely no disrespect to Ajahn Jomnien at all, as far as I know he has not made these statements himself.



(talking about, Ajahn Jomtien around 30 minutes into this)







(I found this presentation a bit awkward as I am not used to seeing a lay person, sitting on a seat usually reserved for monks)

[cappuccino]

The teacher is the Buddha


Learn his teaching

[dharmacorps]

Sounds like this should be in Connections to Other paths.

[Dharmapala]

Sounds like this should be in Connections to Other paths.

Those videos talk specifically about, Theravadan meditation practices and their results, not the other stuff he is into.

J.

[confusedlayman]

Avoid this jimjak .. lay teachers who teach properly are few

[Dharmapala]

Avoid this jimjak .. lay teachers who teach properly are few

I was mostly interested to see if there was any of Ajahn Jumnien's students who on here, which could verify any of the claims made in the video

[Goofaholix]

some of the statements about, Ajahn Jomnien, seem a bit far fetched such as "carrying a 70kg bag of amulets around all day"

This is well known. I saw him in 1996 in San Francisco, somebody commented that this time he had given up carrying around these heavy weights attached to his robes but had them on his previous visit.

[Bundokji]

I watched the first video and found it interesting.