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Samanera Narindo | |
| Samanera Narindo was born to Chinese-Malaysian parents in the Netherlands in the winter of 1981. In addition to pursuing his studies, he helped with his parent’s restaurant business. In 2005 he completed his studies (LL.M. in Financial Law & M.Sc. in International Business Administration), and started working in international sales and marketing for a Dutch multinational. His interest in people of various cultures resulted in traveling to different countries. In 2004, during his study exchange in Singapore, he came across a well informed Buddhist who introduced him to Buddhism in connection with many different traditions, but especially with the Ajahn Chah lineage. |
To Samanera Narindo’s own amazement the Buddhist teaching revealed itself as something he has incorporated partly in his life without knowing it to be “Buddhist.” The emphasis in the Buddhist teachings on one’s own (good) morality and sharing goodness in body, speech and mind was very inspiring. His strong aspirations resulted in taking seriously the three refuges and five percepts. Since 2004 he had been spending his holidays mostly in Asia (Thailand, Burma, Tibet, Malaysia, Singapore) to visit Buddhist places with his Dhamma friends. After several years he felt a necessity for more guidance in his meditation practice, and he looked for meditation classes connected with the Ajahn Chah lineage. In 2009 he found such a meditation retreat centre in Great Gaddesden on the internet, and in June of that year, during a 10-day, retreat he surprised himself: there was a sudden urge to renounce his lay-life. He spent several months properly finishing his work and saying goodbyes to friends and relatives. In the winter of 2010 he arrived in Amaravati and found the monastery supportive for the practice. In May 2010 he was given the opportunity to take the Three Refuges & Eight Precepts as an anagarika, with Luang Por Sumedho as preceptor. Samanera Narindo received the pabbajja (novice ordination) on 10 July, 2011, with Ajahn Amaro as as his preceptor. | |
