Bhante’s Advice

Compiled from personal notebook entries written in the 1980s, this document preserves Ven. Ñāṇavimala’s direct instructions on monastic training. He strongly warns against the hidden dangers of becoming emotionally attached to comfortable monasteries, pleasant foods, or human interactions. Urging monastics to aggressively cultivate dispassion (nibbidā), live completely in the present, and protect the Vinaya, he demonstrates that genuine internal peace blossoms purely from total independence from all changing external conditions.