Tudong: The Long Road North, by Ajahn Amaro & Nick Scott (Free Buddhist eBook in PDF format)

This book is an account of a ‘tudong’ walk through England, made in 1983 by Ajahn Amaro and Nick Scott. During following year Ajahn Amaro typed up his diaries and, with the generous contributions of many friends of the monastery – particularly Nancy Sloane Stanley’s illustrations Sujata’s calligraphy and Nick Scott’s maps – 1000 copies rolled off the machines at the local Tyneside Free Press in the all of 1984.

Although some of the material appeared in the later compilation Silent Rain, up until now those 1000 copies were the only ones in existence. We are now delighted to be able to offer this web-edition of Tudong – The Long Road North, making the book available once more after a 25 year hiatus.

Born in England in 1956, Ven. Amaro Bhikkhu received his BSc. in Psychology and Physiology from the University of London. Spiritual searching led him to Thailand, where he went to Wat Pah Nanachat, a Forest Tradition monastery established for Western disciples of Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, who ordained him as a bhikkhu in 1979. He returned to England and joined Ajahn Sumedho at the newly established Chithurst Monastery. He resided for many years at the Amaravati Buddhist Centre north of London, making trips to California every year during the 1990s. Since June of 1996 he has lived at Abhayagiri Monastery. He has written an account of his 830-mile trek from Chithurst to Harnham Vihara called Tudong – the Long Road North, republished in the expanded book Silent Rain, now available for free distribution and he published another book, Small Boat, Great Mountain, in 2003 that is also available for free distribution. On June 16th, 2005 Ajahn Amaro returned to Abhayagiri after spending one year on sabbatical visiting Buddhist holy places in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

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Impurities : 252-253

It’s easy to see
the errors of others,
but hard to see
your own.
You winnow like chaff
the errors of others,
but conceal your own–
like a cheat, an unlucky throw.
If you focus on the errors of others,
constantly finding fault,
your effluents flourish.
You’re far from their ending.

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When you’ve given up five mental obstacles, and expelled all corruptions, and cut off affection and hate, being independent, live alone like a horned rhino.

When you’ve put pleasure and pain behind you, and former happiness and sadness, and gained equanimity serene and pure, live alone like a horned rhino.

Not neglecting retreat and absorption, always living in line with the teachings, comprehending the danger in rebirths, live alone like a horned rhino.

One whose aim is the ending of craving—diligent, clever, learned, mindful, resolute—who has appraised the teaching and is bound for awakening, should live alone like a horned rhino.

Partial excepts from Snp 1.3 : Khaggavisāṇasutta
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Impurities : 254-255

There’s no trail in space,
no outside contemplative.
People are smitten
with objectification,
but devoid of objectification are
the Tathagatas.
There’s no trail in space,
no outside contemplative,
no eternal fabrications,
no wavering in the Awakened.

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Dhammapada XIX : The Judge


The Judge : 256-257

To pass judgment hurriedly
doesn’t mean you’re a judge.
The wise one, weighing both
the right judgment & wrong,
judges others impartially–
unhurriedly, in line with the Dhamma,
guarding the Dhamma,
guarded by Dhamma,
intelligent:
he’s called a judge.


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The Judge : 258-259

Simply talking a lot
doesn’t mean one is wise.
Whoever’s secure–
no hostility,
fear–
is said to be wise.
Simply talking a lot
doesn’t maintain the Dhamma.
Whoever
–although he’s heard next to nothing–
sees Dhamma through his body,
is not heedless of Dhamma:
he’s one who maintains the Dhamma.


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The Judge : 260-261

A head of gray hairs
doesn’t mean one’s an elder.
Advanced in years,
one’s called an old fool.
But one in whom there is
truth, restraint,
rectitude, gentleness,
self-control–
he’s called an elder,
his impurities disgorged,
enlightened.


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The Judge : 262-263

Not by suave conversation
or lotus-like coloring
does an envious, miserly cheat
become an exemplary man.
But one in whom this is
cut through
up-rooted
wiped out–
he’s called exemplary,
his aversion disgorged,
intelligent.


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The Judge : 264-265

A shaven head
doesn’t mean a contemplative.
The liar observing no duties,
filled with greed & desire:
what kind of contemplative’s he?
But whoever tunes out
the dissonance
of his evil qualities
–large or small–
in every way
by bringing evil to consonance:
he’s called a contemplative.


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The Judge : 266-267

Begging from others
doesn’t mean one’s a monk.
As long as one follows
householders’ ways,
one is no monk at all.
But whoever puts aside
both merit & evil and,
living the chaste life,
judiciously
goes through the world:
he’s called a monk.


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The Judge : 268-269

Not by silence
does someone confused
& unknowing
turn into a sage.
But whoever–wise,
as if holding the scales,
taking the excellent–
rejects evil deeds:
he is a sage,
that’s how he’s a sage.
Whoever can weigh
both sides of the world:
that’s how he’s called
a sage.

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