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〈Δ〉 Notes for talk seven in the 2014 dhamma talk series, You Don’t Even Need Yoga Pants. Each week during the Rains Retreat Series of Talks in Bangkok the notes will be published. If anything is mentioned during the session that needs clarification or links for further details, then it will be easily found. There is an old …
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〈Δ〉 Notes for talk two in the 2014 dhamma talk series The Feed Forward Loop Each week during the Rains Retreat Series of Talks the notes will be published. If anything is mentioned during the session that needs clarification or links for further details, then it will be easily found. There is a lot of strife …
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A man bows to ta Buddha statue. He is muttering something. He sticks some gold on a statue of a monk. If you could ask him what he is doing, and if he were both truthful and accurate, he might tell you he is praying for his business to succeed. Or he might say he …
¤ A New Year in Bangkok Kalyanamitta – Your Role in Other’s Paths Short Dhamma Reflection and Meditation at Ariyasom, Sukhumvit Soi 1 Thursday 9th January Few people can establish a really regular and consistent practise alone – many read the books or even the Suttas, but to translate that into a systematic daily meditation …
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¤ Saturday 26th October ¤ The Conventional and the Ultimate Dhamma Class with Caru Dassini at The INDUS Restaurant (soi 26) ¤ Our visiting Burmese teacher, Caru Dassini will lead proceedings at the Indus on Saturday 26th from 9:30-11:30 am. She is a very experienced Abhidhamma scholar and meditation teacher from Burma, and has a …
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Sorry – but a seasonal price hike at the resort, and the meeting room hire have put this retreat past our budget – it is getting up towards 3000 baht per person for the weekend, which we think is too much. The search goes on for a nice quiet resort that we can use at …
simplicity is the ultimate sophistication said Leonardo da Vinci The trouble is the mind likes to make things complex. Layers and layers of psychology, ego, neurosis, fears … The mind has the job of recreating things that are observed. So that for instance, you see a chair complete with your perceptions of how it should be, …
This month’s WBU forum speaker is announced as follows: Program : WBU SUNDAY FORUM Topic : “Buddhist Meditation Techniques Practiced in Thailand” Date & Time : June 6, 2553(2010), 12.00-13.30 P.M. Speaker ; Dr. Suthira Duangsamosorn About the Topic and Speaker : The forthcoming Buddhist Forum held by The World Buddhist University on Sunday, June 6, …
MONDAYS This program has now finished – we will look at restarting a weekly meditation in Nov 2010 Bangkok Meditation Group Every Monday – “Just Meditation” at Ariaysom Villa. Monday group meditation, open for all, free style – you are welcome to follow your own meditation system, or to get instructions for meditation before or …
Sorry – as of Thursday 13th May (morning) this workshop is fully booked, and we cannot accept any more registration. We will do more in the near future. For other events had back to our home page. Saturday 15th May, visiting teacher Venerable Pannyavaro will lead a one-day meditation workshop at the spacious, cool and quiet …
Christmas in Bangkok is not what it is in cold countries. Is it an event worth remembering here? Christmas is here again, though it is hard to get into the spirit of things in Thailand. In the West most people feel that Christmas has become too commercialised, and has lost its original values. What are …
Learning from Bhavaviveka: A Sixth-Century Buddhist Rationalist A public talk by Malcolm David Eckel from Boston University at The Center for Ethics of Science and Technology Room 608, Boromratchakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University 1:00 to 3:00 pm Friday December 26 Free of charge, no reservation necessary. Abstract for the talk is as follows: …
Following up from our group view of the Jill Bolte Taylor video at the Tai Pan Hotel. Our Little Bangkok meditation group met for discussion on meditation, vipassana, mindfulness and neurology, or the brain. Following is the report from the event. Jill Bolte Taylor certainly had some odd experiences during her stroke. Where other people …
Thursday 13 November (hopefully you will all be ok after the Loi Krathong celebrations the day before!) Dhamma talk with Jeffrey Oliver “How to Meditate” Jeff, former Buddhist monk who has been leading Vipassana mindfulness meditation workshops and retreats for over 10 years, will lead a dhamma talk on the topic ‘how to meditate’. He will …
No – this is not an admonishment … a note on the excellent online magazine Tree Hugger which is running a story on a Buddhist temple in Thailand that is made from Beer bottles. head over to tree hugger for the full details and lots of pictures: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/temple-built-from-beer-bottles.php One wonders if the bottles are actually …
