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Australian Buddhist Kalyana Mitta

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: Victoria 3168 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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24.01.2022 Buddha Bodhivana livestream Evening Puja and Weekly Dhamma Talk During the period that the monastery has suspended its usual daily activities you are welcome to join us in our Evening Puja, live streamed on Facebook every evening at 7.00pm. The programme aims to give you encouragement in your daily practice of mindfulness and reflection on the Buddhist teachings and help bring you some peace at this time. The programme begins with silent meditation until 7.30pm, followed by c...hanting of reflections until 8.00pm. On each Saturday night Ajahn Kalyano will give a Dhamma teaching from 8.00pm until 8.30pm. May you be safe and well. - 19.00 . 19.00 . 19.30 . - 20.00 . () https://m.facebook.com/buddhabodhivana/ https://www.facebook.com/846292275535240/posts/1486944978136630/

22.01.2022 Facing the challenges of the Coronavirus by Bhikkhu Bodhi https://youtu.be/fb--8cQovOc

21.01.2022 7 Steps of Ajaan Lee's Breath Meditation (Method 2)

20.01.2022 Update on Wat Buddha Dhamma (NSW) http://tiradhammo.blogspot.com//december2019-greetingsfrom

17.01.2022 Remembering Luang Por Dhammavuddhu (Bhante Hye) and his legacy in Europe.

16.01.2022 An explanation of Anatta by Deepak Chopra https://youtu.be/Taj14EHZpYE

15.01.2022 Happy Father's Day A biography of Ajahn Chah - with English subtitles https://youtu.be/BbXlmEepOeQ

14.01.2022 Friends, as we continue to pray for everyone affected by the bush-fires raging on our East Coast, please think of Wat Buddha Dhamma in Ten Mile Hollow (2758) - while all monastics have been evacuated, their temple and grounds are burning. Thank you in advance for your help

14.01.2022 Everything exists merely thus. Pleasure is merely pleasure. Feeling is merely feeling. Memory is merely memory. Thinking is merely thinking. They are all things that are 'merely' such. Happiness is merely happiness; suffering is merely suffering. Good is merely good, evil is merely evil. Everything exists merely thus. ... There is no real happiness or real suffering. There are just the merely existing conditions. Merely happy, merely suffering, merely hot, merely cold, merely a being or a person. You should keep looking to see that things are only so much. Only earth, only water, only fire, only wind. We should keep on 'reading' these things and investigating this point. Eventually our perception will change; we will have a different feeling about things. The tightly held conviction that there is self and things belonging to self will gradually come undone. Source : A Dhammatalk by Ajahn Chah "It Can Be Done" https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/It_Can_Be_Done.php

14.01.2022 You are attached to your intentions, attached to the idea of wanting things, make things be a certain way to give us pleasure, we are more attached to OUR DREAMS of sensuality than to the sensual pleasure themselves. It's the desire that we cling to. We cling to the plans for sensuality, but we only think about certain aspects, with limited detail of the sensuality. The antidote then is to broaden the view - to see that our pursuit of pleasure leads to a lot of pain.... Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source : "Antidotes for Clinging" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74suX4P0To

14.01.2022 Event organised by Santussako International Foundation Let us get together and make a one wish at one timing so that it becomes a powerful global aspiration, to make a difference in the universal energy. Programme title:... ONE WORLD, ONE TIMING, ONE PRAYER. A COLLECTIVE PRAYER FOR THE WORLD TO BE FREE FROM COVID-19. The time and date: Saturday, March 21, 2020 @ 12.30 GMT (6.00pm Sri Lanka time) 8.30pm Malaysia time 11.30pm Australia Eastern Std Time We are inviting all Buddhist and non-Buddhist organizations and their followers around the world to join us in this collective prayer (blessings) at one timing, wherever they are around the world and make a one global aspiration to be free from Covid-19 Virus spread. In line with healthcare authority’s advice, we do not encourage public gathering in one place. Instead, please join with a lit candle or palms together in anjali from your own home/temple or wherever you are around the world. Those who are interested to participate can follow the live media coverage of the chanting or log on to Facebook Live at Santussako International Foundation Facebook Page. This event is organized by World Buddhist Sangha Youth and Santussako International Foundation where Bhante Indarathana and other Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks will lead the prayers by chanting Ratana Sutta (Jewel Discourse) at Ruwanweli Seya (Great Pagoda) Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. If you have any inquiries, feel free to contact us. Thank you. Yours in Dhamma Bhante Indarathana Founder Santussako International Foundation SPREAD THIS INVITATION AND LET’S PRAY TOGETHER ON MARCH 21 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3184179358314778&id=412230065509735

10.01.2022 SETTING IN MOTION THE WHEEL OF TRUTH (Dhammacakkappavattana-Sutta)(1) (The First Sermon of the Buddha) Now when the Blessed One set in motion the Wheel of Truth, the Bhummattha devas (the earth deities) proclaimed: 'The Matchless Wheel of Truth that cannot be set in motion by recluse, brahmana, deva, Mara, Brahma, or any one in the world, is set in motion by the Blessed One in the Deer Park at Isipatana near Varanasi.'... https://www.buddhanet.net/bp_sut17.htm

09.01.2022 The five categories of a being's experience (khandhas) are all a lump of red-hot iron. When a lump of iron is glowing red-hot, is there anywhere it can be touched without getting burnt? Is there anywhere at all that is cool? Try touching it on the top, the sides, or underneath. Is there a single spot that can be found that's cool? Impossible. This searing lump of iron is entirely red-hot. ... We can't even attach to serenity. If we identify with that peace, assuming that there is someone who is calm and serene, this reinforces the sense that there is an independent self or soul. This sense of self is part of conventional reality. Thinking, "I'm peaceful", "I'm agitated", "I'm good", "I'm bad", "I'm happy", or "I'm unhappy", we are caught in more existence and birth. It's more suffering. If our happiness vanishes, then we're unhappy instead. When our sorrow vanishes, then we're happy again. Caught in this endless cycle, we revolve repeatedly through heaven and hell. Source : Ajahn Chah "Unshakeable Peace" http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Unshakeable_Peace1_2.php

06.01.2022 Today is Magha Puja Day - may you all be well and peaceful. Mgha Pj day marks an event occurring at the Veuvana grove, near Rjagaha (present Rajgir) in northern India, ten months after the enlightenment of the Buddha. The traditional story goes that a meeting is held in the afternoon, that has four characteristics: 1) 1,250 disciples come to see the Buddha that evening without being summoned; These are mostly pupils from the Buddha's recently converted disciples, such ...as the three Kassapa brothers, and the monks Sriputta and Mogallna. 2) All of them are Arahants, enlightened disciples; 3) All have been ordained by the Buddha himself, and therefore are his direct spiritual descendants; 4) It is the full-moon day of the third lunar month. Because of these four factors, Mgha Pj is also known as the Fourfold Assembly Day. On this occasion, the Buddha teaches those arahants a summary of Buddhism, called the Ovdapatimokkha. In these, three principles are given: "The non-doing of evil / the full performance of what is wholesome / the total purification of the mind." This is followed by a formulation of Buddhist ideals: "Patience (and) forbearance are the highest austerity. The awakened ones say nibbna is the highest. One is certainly not a wanderer if one injures others; one is not an ascetic if one harms another." Finally, the last stanza is about the path of religious practice: "Not abusing, not injuring, and restraint under the rules of discipline, and knowing moderation in eating, and secluded lodgings, and exertion in respect of higher thought, this is the teaching of the awakened ones."

05.01.2022 The History of the Buddhist Flag #Buddhist #LKA

04.01.2022 Bush fires hit Wat Buddha Dhamma, one of Australia’s oldest Buddhist monasteries >> Donate to the rebuilding of Wat Buddha Dhamma (NSW, Australia). Link to donate : http://www.wbd.org.au/support/financial/... More information : https://www.lionsroar.com/bushfires-hit-wat-buddha-dhamma-/

04.01.2022 Meditation is like a single stick of wood. Insight (vipassan) is one end of the stick and serenity (samatha) the other. If we pick it up, does only one end come up or do both? When anyone picks up a stick both ends rise together. Which part then is vipassan, and which is samatha? Where does one end and the other begin? They are both the mind. As the mind becomes peaceful, initially the peace will arise from the serenity of samatha. We focus and unify the mind in states of... meditative peace (samdhi). However, if the peace and stillness of samdhi fades away, suffering arises in its place. Why is that? Because the peace afforded by samatha meditation alone is still based on attachment. This attachment can then be a cause of suffering. Serenity is not the end of the path. Source : Ajahn Chah - Unshakeable Peace http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Unshakeable_Peace1_2.php

02.01.2022 Eradicate the prejudice.

01.01.2022 Ven Dhammavuddho Mahathera / Bhante Hye's Dhamma legacy : Bhante Dhammavuddho Mahathera (also known to many of us as Bhante Hye) passed on at 7.12 am on 22nd December 2019 I have made available his Dhamma talks that was provided by Vihara Buddha Gotama (Aug 2019 editions) on the following dropbox link. 647 talks in total covering Buddha's suttas. These talks were originally available on digital media players. ... There is an index PDF for reference. Download , listen , reflect and share. https://bit.ly/395YYLN