Monastic life
Mudito was born in São Paulo in 1977 and began practising meditation as a layman at the Casa de Dharma, a Buddhist centre of that city. After finishing university, without a clear path, he travelled through Europe, Asia, India and Nepal until he reached Thailand. He has recounted that, after a week at a monastery, he stopped while walking with the feeling of having arrived at his destination.
In 2002, at the age of twenty-five, he began the monastic life in Thailand. He entered that year as an anagārika, received the sāmaṇera ordination in 2003 and that of bhikkhu in 2004, at Wat Nong Pah Pong, the main monastery of Ajahn Chah, in Ubon Ratchathani Province, with Luang Po Liem as preceptor (upajjhāya). He resided at Wat Pah Nanachat and at the Vimutti monastery of New Zealand, spent six months with Ajahn Jandee and then settled as a disciple of Luang Po Piak at Wat Pah Cittabhavana, in Pathum Thani Province. He returned to Brazil for the first time in 2013 as a teaching monk.
Mosteiro Suddhavāri
The monastery began in early 2017. During the process of acquiring the land, Mudito lived alone on the empty property, feeding on the offerings he received. Progressively a meditation platform, huts for monks, rooms for laypeople, a kitchen and the present meditation hall were built. The monastery also carries out native forest replanting.
In 2019 the monastery obtained the status of associated monastery of Wat Nong Pah Pong. In August 2024 Ajahn Mudito acted as preceptor (upajjhāya) in the ordination as novice of the Venerable Medhāvī, who had trained at Suddhavāri and later moved to the Amaravati monastery in the United Kingdom. All its activities, including lodging, are offered free of charge and sustained by voluntary donation.
