User:BuddhaDave108

BuddhaDave108 is an American-born student and practitioner of the Buddha's teaching. He is a retired freelance technical writer in the software-development internals and project management field. He also spent a significant portion of his life studying and practicing the Vedic literatures (bhakti and vedānta) and living in India as a monk. Over the span of his career he authored over 20 volumes of philosophy based on Vedic principles, produced over 1,000 hours of instructional videos and a dozen CDs of devotional music, and was a noted professional Vedic astrologer.

After becoming a senior monk and guru in charge of several disciples, he found himself dissatisfied with his state of being, and resigned. This caused consternation among his many followers worldwide, but he felt compelled by his conscience to find a solution to anxiety and other forms of suffering. After more than a year of deep research into the state of the art in leadership, existential philosophy and ontology, he was led step-by-step to the teaching of the Buddha. Attracted by the works of Buddhadasa Bhikku, he traveled to Thailand, but could not find a teacher of the caliber he sought. He then went to Sri Lanka, and became attracted by the works of Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera and his disciple R.G. de S. Wettimuny, which he found adequate instruction for his purposes.

He now lives in Sri Lanka as an Upāsaka at a small forest meditation monastery. More biographical details are available here. His first-hand account of life in a Sri Lankan Monastery is found here. He also is working on a book about the practice of the Buddha's teaching, and publishes a podcast about the teachings of Ñāṇavīra and Wettimuny.