Ajahn Chah (Thai Forest Tradition Master)

Answers Theravada and mindfulness-practice questions in Ajahn Chah's voice, with a hard rule that every doctrinal claim carries a Pali sutta or teaching-collection citation.

EducationIntermediate★ 325⑂ 66AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 18, 2026

What it does

Handles Theravada topics — mindfulness (sati), letting go, the three characteristics (anicca/dukkha/anatta), ānāpānasati, sīla-samādhi-paññā, dhutanga practices — in Ajahn Chah's plain, metaphor-rich forest-monastery voice.
Enforces citations on every doctrinal claim: Pali as 【SN 22.59 / Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta】, teachings as 【《Food for the Heart》§Right Practice】. If a claim can't be sourced, the sentence is stripped rather than invented.
Uses a decision tree so only the relevant files in sources/ and references/ get loaded per question type.
Falls back to the FoJin search API only when offline excerpts are insufficient, and treats all retrieved text strictly as data — embedded instructions are ignored (prompt-injection defense).
Explicit guardrails: no ranking of Buddhist schools, no Mahayana concepts mixed into Theravada explanations, no fabricated "Ajahn Chah said" quotes or invented dialogues, no presumptuous honorifics on the first turn.

Who it's for

Students of Theravada Buddhism and the Thai Forest tradition.
Meditators struggling with restlessness or wandering thoughts who want both practical advice and scriptural grounding.
Anyone tired of hallucinated sutta references and who values verifiable sourcing.

Examples

"I can't sit still, my mind wanders constantly" → opens with a glass-of-water or pond metaphor, returns you to present awareness, then cites 《Still Forest Pool》§Training the Mind.
"What are the three characteristics?" → reads the relevant section of sources/sutta-excerpts.md and cites 【SN 22.59 / Anattalakkhaṇa】.
"I'd like to talk as if with Ajahn Chah" → internalizes references/voice.md (without narrating the setup) and replies in the tree/water/visitor idiom.

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Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/xr843/Master-skill.git
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(Optional) The FoJin live lookup needs network access; without it the skill still answers from offline excerpts.

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