VASSA 2023 SERIES : DHAMMA TALK. Q&A. [Every Weekend, August to October]
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Dear Dhamma Brothers & Sisters,
This Vassa (“Rainy-Season Retreat”), the BuddhaDhamma Foundation makes a sincere invitation and offering to the global community.
📣 This year, Āsāḷhā Pūjā, also known as Dhamma Day, falls on 1st August. This is one of Theravada Buddhism’s important holy days, commemorating the Buddha’s first discourse.
📣 The traditional Rainy-Season Retreat (“Vassa”) begins on the next day, for a period of three months. Pavāraṇā Day is on 29th October and this day marks the end of the three-month Vassa retreat.
🛐 During the Vassa, ordained monks and nuns stay in one monastery/temple to intensify their spiritual practice such as learning and reading the scriptures and meditation.
🛐 Lay Buddhist disciples are encouraged to use the Vassa to also intensify their practice by observing the higher precepts such as the eight precepts of morality and try to further develop their spiritual faculties through meditation and listening to Buddhist discourses.
🌸 The Vassa carries the spirit of being still, not running away, either from our suffering or chasing after an idea of happiness, is an opportunity of returning home to oneself, to take refuge in our spiritual family, to enrich and deepen our dhamma body with our mindfulness practice.
🌸 This is a beautiful tradition the Buddha has created for us to rest and heal. What is left is for us to continue to learn to open our hearts and develop our citta (mind). How fortunate we are to have the conditions to be together and practice this period.
🙏To encourage the global community, the BuddhaDhamma Foundation (“BDF”) will be hosting a 3-month series of Vassa Dhamma Talks and Q&A by Forest Sangha in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition of Ajahn Chah on Zoom.
📅 Aug : Ajahn Passano, Ajahn Viradhammo, Ajahn Amaro, Ajahn Kalyano, Ajahn Asoko
📅 Sep : Ajahn Viradhammo, Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Jayasaro, Ajahn Vajiro
📅 Oct : Ajahn Tiradhammo, Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Vajiro, Ajahn Kalyano Ajahn Kongrit, Ajahn Ahimsako
For more details, please refer to posters and calendar of BDF Vassa 2023 in the attached, or on the website or FB, IG.
❤ Respectfully and sincerely, BDF invites all dhamma brothers and sisters to consider acting promptly before death arrives, to know oneself and to awaken to the Truth.
❤ May this offering & sharing be of benefit to all beings.
Those who know this act of dedication, may they all rejoice in it. And as for those yet unaware, may the devas let them know.
🙏 Should there be errors or misgivings occurring during the Vassa 2023 series on Zoom, the fault is entirely ours as host. We seek your understanding and ask for your forgiveness as they come due.
ANUMODANA. SADHU. SADHU. SADHU. 🙏🙏🙏
With our blessings & metta,
BuddhaDhamma Foundation
