Sister Mon, in conversation with Dinka Pignon, discusses her Buddhist journey, from a lay practitioner in Thailand, to a Maechee of 22 years at Birken Forest Monastery in Canada.

00:00 Intro
01:21 Early life / Buddhist culture
06:00 Ajahn Sulak / Activism
07:18 East and West / Authenticity / Buddhism and life
11:12 Ajahn Buddhadassa / Buddhism for everybody
17:37 Clinging to language / Culture
18:58 Coming to Canada
24:32 Dinka: what would be helpful? / are we open? / conditioning
27:27 Conditioning I (forest)
30:09 Conditioning II (garden)
34:23 Teachers
36:36 Bhikkhu P.A. Payutto
42:37 Ajahn Buddhadasa
45:18 Teaching by example, caring, being a dhamma friend
49:43 Thank you!
50:55 Where is home?

Credits:
Thank you, Ajahn Jotipalo, for letting me use garden clips from your video:    • Video  ! (Dinka)
Thank you, Kenneth Newby, for your photo of trees, "the big trees in the Dhamma forest"! (Dinka)