Foreword by Ajahn SumedhoAuthor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsI. PREPARATIONThe IntentionWho is Ahba?Samatha Meditation on BuddhoThe General Course of EventsII. PRACTICEEncountersMy First RetreatLife as a MonkOne Year LaterRetreats, Retreats, RetreatsVisiting Ahba TogetherDeep Into the NightA Short MessageIntermezzoLike a TreeConversations with HermanEpilogueIII. APPENDICESA Letter from AhbaGlossary of Pāli TermsAbout the AuthorLearning the PracticeThe record of 20 years of daily samatha-meditation alongside a job and family, shaped by retreats with Ahba, a Burmese monk whose teachings are rarely written down. With a foreword by Ajahn Sumedho.In 1983, after a long search, Herman Schreuder found a Burmese monk in the jungle of northern Thailand and recognised him as his teacher. Twenty years later Wouter Doorn took that same path through Herman — and never left it.Buddho is the record of more than twenty years of daily samatha meditation, shaped by retreat after retreat with Ahba: a teacher as direct as he is patient. Don't go looking for wisdom, he says; first make your mind clean and clear. Then wisdom comes by itself, easily. No shortcuts and no quick results — only the steady development of the mind, buddho after buddho, day after day. Alongside a job and a family.Ahba's teaching is rarely written down. It lives in the silence of the monastery, in the conversations between teacher and student, in the years of patient sitting that nobody sees. This book records what would otherwise be lost."I recommend this book. May it be of benefit to all who read it, inspiring and encouraging those who are interested in realising the path of liberation."- Ajahn Sumedho" It did remind me indeed of Ahba very much, of his profound wisdom, care, and kindness. You describe him well."- Ajahn Asoko, assistant to Ajahn Sumedho