The Irrepressible Phra Mick Attend at your own risk! Programme : WBU SUNDAY FORUM Topic : ‘All of Our Enemies are in Our Minds.’ Date & Time : May 3, 2552(2009), 12:00 – 13.30 : P.M. Speaker : Ven. Phra Mick Ratanapanyo Bhikkhu …
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Photos: HHPCR@Tai Pan
April 2009, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche came to Bangkok delivering a series of talks about town. On the last day, just before nervous followers whisked him off to the airport, he gave a 2 hour talk in English only for the English speaking community of Bangkok. 60 or so people gathered for lunch, faces old …
HHPCR at the Tai Pan
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche completed his tour of Bangkok with a lively talk to a packed room especially for our English speaking Sangha. It was nice to give him free reign without the constraints of stopping every couple of minutes for translation. And very nice for the English speaking Sangha of Bangkok to come together …
HHPCR – Marcus’ reflections…
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, in his final appearance in Bangkok this visit, gave a lively talk to around a hundred people packed into the undersized and overheating meeting room of the Tai Pan Hotel, April 2009. Below is a summary by Littlebanger Marcus, from his online Journal: His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the Taklung …
Bodhicitta with HHPC Rinpoche
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche is visiting Bangkok and engaging in a maelstrom of events both public and private for just under two weeks. His easy manner and playfulness have warmed the Thai audiences naturally inclined as they are to anything ‘sanook’. And yet, to attract Thai people from their usual comfort zone of Theravada is …
Vesak Retreat
The Thousand Stars Tibetan Buddhist organisation for Thais, is announcing overnight activities over the Vesak (Visakha Puja) period. You should contact to check what language proceedings will be held in, since they are announcing the same retreat in Thai. Contact info is given below: Full Moon Retreat for Inner Peace & Happiness Visakhapuja, May …
Aging Gracefully
Here’s a story worth spreading. At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. He has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing since 1941. When people live long, they always seem …
Paradox of Self
Marcus’ blogged report and reflections on the talk last night with Canadian monk U Vamsa, where about 45 of us gathered at the lovely Ariyasom Boutique Hotel in Bangkok: Last night Venerable U Vamsarakkhita, known as U Vamsa for short, an eloquent and incisive Canadian monk in the Burmese Theravadan tradition, spoke at the beautiful …
A. Wimoak Workshop April 09′
Sunday 26th April 2009 Note that we also have a big event with visiting Phakchok Rinpoche on the same day. You will have to choose which event you will go to – some people will be heading to A. Wimoak’s event in the morning, and heading off to the Tai Pan hotel for the afternoon …
Spice of Life
Considering rebirth as we were in the previous post, there is a ‘Quirky’ story recently that serves as a good reminder to foucs on the life we have. And there are few folks more quirky than the British. Note the third paragraph: A Nottinghamshire businessman who set up a 30ft dung-firing catapult to deter intruders …
Life after Death
Buddhism holds to the idea of rebirth, which seems to be something of a controversial issue for Western Buddhists. Most Westerners like the psychological aspect of Buddhism – the investigation of ones body and mind, and meditation, the benefits of which seem fairly obvious, if sometimes illusive for the individual. But rebirth requires a whole new …
Pure Land Buddhism
A blog by Marcus, reflecting on some of his affinity for this more unusual School of Buddhism: On Sunday the 26th of April, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, the head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, is giving a talk in Bangkok entitled ‘Who is Amitabha Buddha?’. Before then, I hope to organise …
Kathmandu Meditation
This months meditation session at Kathmandu books has moved from the usual second Sunday of the month to Sunday 19th so that it does not clash with Songkran. We all know you’d rather be splashing water about than meditating … 😀 Khun Morakot, a Thai lady fluent in English and experienced in meditation, will lead …
Frank’s Ordination
Frank has been meditating a long time, and is well versed in the suttas (teachings) and over the years has been more and more committed to the practise and development that is the Buddhist way. On March 29th ’09 he passed the event horizon and took ordination as a monk, and has gone to live …
I Have No Home
The Mp3 recording from Wednesday 25th March 09 when Venerbale Sayadaw U Jotika stopped off in Bangkok to give a (much too rare) public talk, hosted by his publisher DMG Books is posted below (English only segments) Sayadaw will be back in Bangkok at the end of June ’09. If you enter your email …
Notes from U Jotika’s last talk
On Wednesday 25th March Sayadaw U Jotika will be making a second public appearance here in Bangkok. Some notes from one of the attendees at Sayadaw U Jotika’s previous talk here: Calming things down: “Get things ‘inside’ yourself calmed down, then the outside calms down.” E.G. No need to send one’s mind out towards wars …
Anecdote from Meditation Retreat
A handwritten note from the meditation retreat last January: I LOVE the ‘mindfulness eating’. It presented me with a curious incident with a carrot. I’ve had some really lousy cooked carrots in my past … so I stared down an innocent, rather beautifully fashioned small bit of carrot … imposing my opinion on it. I thought …
Sayadaw U Jotika Visit
The talk that was given in the event below is available for download DMG are announcing that Sayadaw U Jotika, one of the most highly respected of the Burmese monks today, will be speaking at Bodhgaya Hall: Wednesday 25th March Bodhgaya Hall, Amarin Tower, level 22 2pm – 4 pm Talk will be in English …
When Carma drops a hint
When we watched The Secret recently, some of the discussion hovered around Karma; discussion hampered by the fact that no one really knows what Karma is or how it works. Sometimes though, Karma can drop you a hint … in this case that perhaps it is time to slow down : Driver wakes up in …
WBU Forum: April 09
Programme : WBU SUNDAY FORUM Topic : The Vessantara Jataka Date & Time : April 5, 2552(2009), 12:00 – 13.30 : P.M. Speaker : Dr. Somboon Duangsamosorn About the Topic : The Vessantara Jataka The Vessantara Jataka is a well known story from the Buddhist canon, that part of the Tipitaka (one of the Three …