Samanadipa Forest Buddhist Monastery
For The One Who Suffers Step 1 – Training in Virtue Step 2 – Exercising Sense Restraint Step 3 – Moderation Of Your Eating it continues…. Do you want to break free from the endless cycle of seeking pleasure through food? If so, then it’s time to start practising self-control and sense restraint when it
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It has been many months since our last newsletter, and many things have happened in the meantime. In mid-November, Bhante Sihacitto went to Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sancturary, Malaysia, to study and experience different styles of monastic life. Shortly after we welcomed Bhante Chris Viccagaro, who came to us all the way from Australia for a few
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For The One Who Suffers Step 1 – Training in Virtue Step 2 – Exercising Sense Restraint Step 3 – Moderation Of Your Eating it continues…. Further development of purification requires restraining the senses or guarding the senses against activities that would provoke and fuel mental defilements. By following the precepts, you will be able
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For The One Who Suffers Step 1 – Training in Virtue Step 2 – Exercising Sense Restraint Step 3 – Moderation Of Your Eating it continues…. Authenticity: You don’t want to suffer and you try to find a way not to. For the most part you turn unknowingly to the very cause of your suffering
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From today onwards the community will be eating one meal a day that is offered at 8.30am. If you wish to bring a cooked dana for the monks you can still do that at 11am but with a PRIOR NOTICE (via email or call) so that we can adjust accordingly on that day.
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Meditation according the early Suttas This book offers a practical guide on how virtue and sense restraint, paired with ‘concurrent attention’, result in what the Buddha described as jhāna meditation or an experience elevated from any obstructive states. The early Suttas explicitly repeat that the only way to this purification is through the taming of
New book: The Only Way to Jhāna by Ajahn Nyanamoli Read More »
On Sunday, 11th December, Ajahn Hiriko temporarily stepped down as the General Guardian of Samanadipa Monastery to have a break from this responsible position. Ajahn Nyanamoli kindly agreed to step in as the Acting General Guardian. Biography He was born in Smederevo, Serbia, in 1983. He took anagārika precepts in UK in 2005, sāmaṇera ordination
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The Kaṭhina Ceremony takes place once a year after the completion of the three-month rains-retreat (vassa) of Buddhist monks, which begins on the Full Moon Day of July and lasts till the Full Moon Day of October. Kathina time is a special occasion for many reasons. For the monks, Kathina reminds them of GRATITUDE: Gratitude
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On October 10, the Congregation of Monks approved the amendment of our Consitution. The change was necessary, as the old act prevented the establishment of constituent parts, the possibility of nuns living in Samanadipa, and obtaining visas for volunteers. The importance of the permission to establish the constituent parts is so that we can establish
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PDF | ePub | mobi get the book This book is about Bhante Ñāṇadīpa, an incredible figure and, for many, the ideal forest monk. We might read about such people from centuries ago, like the Venerable Mahā Kassapa, in the ancient Buddhist texts, or read about the more recent famous Thai forest monks, such as
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