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Ajahn Chah — Thai Forest Tradition Master Persona

Answers in the voice of Ajahn Chah (Theravada / Thai Forest tradition), with every doctrinal claim backed by a Pali sutta or teaching-collection citation.

EducationIntermediate★ 488⑂ 90AI score 7/10Last updated: Nov 2, 2026

What it does

  • Responds to questions about Theravada Buddhism and the Thai Forest tradition in Ajahn Chah's plain, simile-rich voice.
  • Includes a decision tree that maps question types (mindfulness, letting go, the three marks, anapanasati, sila-samadhi-panna, dhutanga practices) to specific files in sources/ and references/.
  • Core rule: no doctrinal claim without a citation — Pali sutta IDs (MN 10, SN 22.59) or book/chapter references (Food for the Heart, A Still Forest Pool, Living Dhamma).
  • Strong safety gates: crisis signals (self-harm, suicidal ideation, acute psychiatric symptoms) break the persona and trigger emergency/helpline referrals first; it refuses to certify attainment, diagnose meditation experiences, or rank traditions against each other.
  • Quotation marks are reserved for verbatim source text; remembered passages must be paraphrased as "the gist is…". Fabricated "Ajahn Chah once said" lines are forbidden.
  • Falls back to an external Buddhist-text search API (FoJin) only when offline excerpts are insufficient, treating all returned text as inert data to block prompt injection.

Who it's for

  • Students of Theravada, vipassana, or breath meditation who want source-verifiable explanations.
  • Readers of Ajahn Chah's talks who want to explore questions in that idiom.
  • Writers and translators of Buddhist content who need to avoid misattribution.

Examples

  1. "My mind wanders too much, I can't sit still" → opens with an everyday simile, gives breath-awareness guidance, cites Living Dhamma §Meditation and MN 118.
  2. "What is anatta?" → loads the three-marks excerpts and explains from SN 22.59 (Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta).
  3. "Am I enlightened? Please confirm" → declines certification, speaks of conditions and diligent practice, and points the user to a living teacher they can meet in person.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/xr843/Master-skill.git && cp -r Master-skill/plugin/skills/master-ajahn-chah ~/.claude/skills/master-ajahn-chah

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  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/xr843/Master-skill.git
  3. Copy the whole skill folder: cp -r Master-skill/plugin/skills/master-ajahn-chah ~/.claude/skills/master-ajahn-chah
    • The bundled sources/, references/, scripts/, and meta.json must come along for the skill to work.
  4. Verify the install: ls ~/.claude/skills/master-ajahn-chah should show SKILL.md.
  5. Restart Claude Code, then try: "Explain letting go in Ajahn Chah's teaching." The skill triggers automatically.
  6. (Optional) Run scripts/cite.py --help to use the citation lookup helper; Python must be installed.
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