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Hildegard Huber
Since 1992 Hildegard Huber has been student of Ven. Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo
(Phra Dhammamangalajarn). During her first eight months of intensive practice of
Vipassana meditation and as assistent of Luang Poh Banyat, as well as of Thanat
and Kathryn Chindaporn, she recognized the wealth of Dhamma which then opened
a new view of her life.
1993 Hildegard Huber returned to her native Germany and started to teach in
addition to running her shop for natural nourishments. Since 1994 she organised
meditation courses for Ven. Ajahn Tong and Thanat and Kathryn Chindaporn in
Germany, France, Slovenia and Sweden. During these classes she assistet the
teachers.
Several long stays in the Thai monastery presented the opportunity to meditate under
the guidance of Ven. Ajahn Tong and at the same time to teach. In 1998 Ven. Ajahn
Tong authorised her as Vipassana teacher and gave her the name Dhammacari.
Since then Hildegard Huber teaches Vipassana on her own. 2004 she gave up her
wordly professional life completely.
At the suggestion of Ven. Ajahn Tong the Dhammacari Vipassana Meditation Center
Association was founded in September 2004 with the object to establish a meditation
center in Germany. This could be opened in February 2006 in Sonnenthal (near
Munich). Since then Hildegard Huber is living there. Through her own longterm
extensive meditation practice she can pass along the acquired knowledge and the
realisation of the teaching in an understandable way. But she not only passes along
her knowledge; with her kind nature she also guides her students in an empathetic
way in their practice.
In a deep sense this is conveyed in the name Dhammacari:
A Dhammacari is a person who practices the Dhamma - or is in the Dhamma - a
person who grows in the Dhamma.
A Dhammacari is not necessarily a person who studies a lot, who obtaines a lot of
knowledge about all types of scientific works, who has a perfect memory, who can
recite whole scriptures and chants, who has great ideas, or who has written beautiful
stories, poems and books about the teaching.
A Dhammacari is just someone who has reached knowledge through the practice of
Vipassana meditation, who receives the wisdom from inside and who thus recognises
all things as they really are.
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