You are welcome to join us on Sunday 18th May for Vesak Day to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and final passing away of the Buddha around 2600 years ago.

10am - Taking of 5 precepts and 8 precepts and chanting by the Sangha (monks and nuns).

10.30 Offering of Dana (food) to the Sangha. (Please bring any food you wish to share.)

11.15 Blessing chanted by the Sangha.

11.30 Shared meal. All people present are invited to also have food to eat and have "lunch" together.

12.00 - 3.00 pm Individual activities: rest, read, chat or meditate! The library and meditation hall are both open.

3.00 - 3.30pm Ceremony for new Buddhists: taking the 3 refuges and the 5 precepts with Ajahn Brahm

3.30 - 4.30pm Question and answer session with Ajahn Brahm.

4.30 - 5.30pm Rest or individual activities or meditation. Library open.

5.30 - 6pm Songs by the BSWA Children's Dhamma school.

6pm - 7pm Flower puja, chanting and Dhamma talk.

7-8pm Circumambulation of the Buddha shrine - walking slowly round the shrine and Bodhi tree in the park three times with lighted candles, incense and flowers.

All are welcome Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike.

Venerable Cittapalo, from Bodinyana monastery, will be guiding the meditation and giving the Dhamma talk this Friday, 16th May at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, 18-20 Nanson Way, Nollamara.

The meditation commences at 7.30pm followed by a Dhamma talk at 8pm until 9pm.

All are welcome.

(Ajahn Brahm is away in Vietnam.)

The library will be open on 18 May at Dhammaloka for the Wesak celebrations

Thanks to our kind and dedicated library volunteers it will be open between 11.00 am and 6.30 pm on that day.

Ajahn Brahmali will be in Oslo, Norway, in the period 18-22 June 2008. He will be giving a Dhamma talk at the Paramita Meditation Centre in Oslo on the evening of Thursday 19th June at 7-9pm. He will also be conducting a 3-day meditation retreat at the Karma Shedrup Ling retreat centre at Ski south of Oslo on 20-22nd June. Prior registration is required for the meditation retreat.

For further information and/or registration please contact Edward Langeland at edward.langeland@gmail.com or tel. +48 99 47 31 (after 5pm)

Burma Cyclone Relief Fund (WA) are organising a fund raising Food Fete
with delicious Burmese sweets and snacks on sale.


Date: Saturday 17 May

Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Place: Australia Burma Association Hall
275 Stirling St
Perth

Please support this worthy cause!
All proceeds will go to the cyclone victims in Burma.

Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has sent his kind wishes to all Buddhists as they celebrate Vesak day.

Please click on the link below to read his comments:

http://www.buddhistcouncil.org.au/modules/news/article.php?storyid=24

The Armadale group is leading a tour to Bodhinyana Monastery on Friday 16th May, for those who have not been before and who would like to be shown how to give dana, etc.

Preference is given to members of the Armadale group but all are welcome if there are spaces available.

Bookings are essential and numbers are limited to 12.

Please do not book in unless you will definitely go. Last time 16 booked in and 5 turned up, meanwhile others were turned away. We are trying to stop that happening this time.

You need to be able to get to the BYFORD Town Hall car park at 9am. after that transport will be shared.

Please call Doug Anderson to book in: phone 9525 4491.

All new Buddhists are invited to a special ceremony at Dhammaloka on the Wesak Celebration day

Ajahn Brahm will conduct a ceremony in the main meditation hall at 3.00 pm on 18 May. This gives new Buddhists the opportunity to formally take refuge in the triple gem and undertake the five precepts lead and guided by Ajahn Brahm.

The formalities will be followed by afternoon tea with Buddhist Society members and the committee in the communal area near the library.

If you are interested in participating in this ceremony or would like more details please contact our Events Coordinator, Anne Kofoed at events@bswa.org.

Book now for weekend retreat

Bookings will be open at Dhammaloka Centre tonight, 2 May at 6:45PM for the next Weekend Retreat.

The retreat will be led by Ajahn Vayama, Abbot of Dhammasara Monastery.

It will be held at St Joseph's Retreat Centre in Safety Bay.
It commences at 5.30PM Friday 30 May and finishes around 3.30PM Sunday 1 June.

A charge to cover cost of meals and accommodation is $115 for BSWA members and $125 for non-members

The monks from Bodhinyana monastery will stop doing an alms round in Armadale after the next one.

Their last one will be on Saturday 7th June 2008.

Your support is encouraged and welcomed.