This book is an offering of selected quotes from Thomas Dhammadipa. They were collected and compiled over several years, during meditation retreats and courses held mainly at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Organized by theme, each quote stands alone without context or commentary, inviting the reader to engage with these texts as points of departure for personal contemplation.
Thomas Dhammadipa. This is Very Important to Understand. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 2025. (free download here; hard copies available here.)
Thomas Dhammadipa is a lay Dharma teacher from the Czech Republic. His decades of meditation training as a Buddhist monk combined with his extensive scholarly and linguistic background make him an exceptional teacher. Thomas Dhammadipa has extensively taught Dharma in both theory and practice, and led students in meditation retreats in Europe, North and South America, India, China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
A more detailed biography is at https://www.dhammadipa.cz/en/biogaphy/
Chödung Karmo Translation Group 