Notes – final event: You Don’t Even Need Yoga Pants

〈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 …

Notes: second event – The Feed Forward Loop

〈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 …

Kalyanamitta – Spiritual Friends @ Ariyasom Thrs 9th Jan

¤ 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 …

Talk with Caru Dassini – morning session at the Indus

¤ 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 …

The Recreating mind

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, …

WBU Forum June 6, 2010

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, …

Monday – weekly meditation

  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 …

One day Meditaiton Workshop

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 …

Special Lecture Fri Dec 26

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: …

Out of Mind Experiences

 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 …

How to Meditate

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 …

Beer and Meditation

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 …