At the Suan Mokkh International Dharma Hermitage you can find out what is truly amazing about "Amazing Thailand" and have an
all-around brain-clean while meditating there. You might become a fully enlightened being as well.
Inside this home page you'll find find 
from the hermitage, often called "the International Center" and from the forest temple, offically known as "Suan Mokkha Phalaram." Meditators attending the ten-day meditation courses that the hermitage offers are given an Introduction to the 
, and an introduction to meditation called 
. Anyone interested in visiting Suan Mokkh and attending the monthly ten-day meditation course should carefully read the above two documents as well as the easy-to-follow
.If you are curious to learn something about Buddhist chants, have a look at the Suan Mokkh 
book. You can also study the the Suan Mokkh home page, http://www.suanmokkh.org/ret/ret-sm1.htm. (copy the link and paste it in your browser)
Across the road from the international center is Suan Mokkh, the forest wat. Founded in 1932 by the savant Buddhist monk, Buddhadasa, it is a center of Thai Buddhism. When I first visited Suan Mokkh in 1983 the area was much less developed than it is today. In those days the International Meditation Center had not been built, the tourist buses (filled with Thai tourists/pilgrims) didn't stop there, and the six-lane divided Asia Highway outside the main entrance was a country road. These days Suan Mokkh is, for better or worse, much more popular with a row of restaurants and snack shops outside; inside is a bookstore and information center.
In 1983 I had the good fortune of 
on my first day in Thailand.
