Underneath there are resources of Buddha Haus. Early on, she was influenced by Laurence Mills and Most ven. Matara Sri Nanarama. This latter teacher instructed Ayya Khema to teach jhanas in the west, and she gave her students the same instruction. One of her most successful students in doing so has been Leigh Brasington.
Ayya Khema
Ayya ‘force of nature’ Khema was the first fully ordained Theravada Nun in a thousand years. She was also the first fully ordained western nun. She was born as Ilse Kummel in 1923 Germany and founded multiple organizations, such as the Buddha Haus and the Metta Vihara, in Kempten, Germany.
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Meditation Instruction
Ayya Khema gives meditation instructions at the beginning of a retreat in Bavaria, Germany. In the first few minutes she offers a comparative with the Christian perspective.
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Laws of nature
Talking about social taboos, particularly around dying, was one of Ayya Khema’s strong suits. Right before the talk there is a contemplation about the inevitability of disease and passing away.
Leigh Brasington
Leigh is most well-known for his work on the jhanas. The most important important work he considers to have written on is dependent origination. He has written a book on it, which is freely available on his website. Leigh describes existence not in terms of identity, but rather as streams of dependently arisen processes interacting, or SODAPI. Siddhāttha Gotama (the Buddha) didn’t discover the jhanas. He was the first to use the jhanas to discover the law of dependent origination.
Roland Nyanabodhi
Leigh Brasington considers himself to be a hippie computer programmer. He has also been one of the most pioneering and influential teachers in bringing jhanas to science. In 2020 I watched this video. In April 2022 I emailed him after getting to the first jhana and he has been my teacher since. https://leighb.com/
Watch my interview with him here.
Ven. Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda
The Ven. Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda offers scholarly commentaries on the discourses. The series attempts to clear up confusion around nibbana. And especially that nibbana doesn’t imply either eternalism or annihilationism. Nibbana is transcendent to what are the five aggregates of self. Seeking eternalism or annihilationism of the five aggregates, beings are forever stuck in a cycle of conditioned existence. For his written resources, please consult seeing through the net.
Mental unification 