DHAMMA STREAM. [Every Weekend, July to October]
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 20th July. 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 17th October and this 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. This 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 on Zoom.
The first weekend would be dedicated to the 90th year of the life of Luang Por Sumedho, BDF’s Spiritual Patron.
⏰ Mark your diary to join these Teachers (by alphabetical order) online during VASSA2024
* Ajahn Ahimsako
* Ajahn Amaro
* Ajahn Asoko
* Ajahn Chandapalo
* Ajahn Dhammasiha
* Ajahn Jayasaro
* Ajahn Jutindharo
* Ajahn Kalyano
* Ajahn Karuniko
* Ajahn Kevali
* Ajahn Kongrit
* Ajahn Munindo
* Ajahn Nyanarato
* Ajahn Nyaniko
* Ajahn Pasanno
* Ajahn Sucitto
* Ajahn Sundara
* Thanissaro Bhikkhu
* Ajahn Tiradhammo
* Ajahn Vajiro
* Ajahn Viradhammo
Please refer to the poster for more details.
Zoom ID: 834 4386 9973
Passcode: 123
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❤️ Respectfully and sincerely, BDF invites all dhamma brothers and sisters to consider acting promptly as aging, sickness and death approach. May you take the opportunity to know thyself 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 2024 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
