Sol Hanna, will be the special guest teacher at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre this coming Friday: July 25th 2008 at 7.30 pm.
The title of his talk will be "The Big Picture"
And it'll be controversial! That is what he tells me - come and judge for yourself!
In case you don't know Sol:
he is a past President of BSWA (of several years!)
he was a former rock musician
AND he was a monk for, I think, two years.
That is quite some mix to delight you!
It is the Rains Retreat now, a time when all our own monks and nuns go on 3 months retreat and stay at their respective monasteries as much as possible. During this time please keep coming! We still have the normal Friday evening guided meditation and Dhamma talk - but given by a fascinating array of special guest teachers.
You might just find that one missing link to Enlightenment!
18 Nanson Way
Nollamara
All are welcome - no need to be a Buddhist!
See you there
Rachel.
The Prez!
The Armadale group started way back in 1987 - so this year is it's 21st birthday. Wow!
If you have been associated with the group at any stage, if you helped to set it up, if you have ever run it - you are invited to the Armadale group's birthday party on
Tuesday 29th July,
at 7pm ... until about 9.30.
at the Community Centre, Armadale Kelmscot Hospital grounds.
Rumour has it The Prez! is speaking and guiding the meditation, as she was at the group in 1987
and then there will be special birthday cake and celebrations.
We can only fit 60 in the room so please come early to be able to join us on this special day.
Here's some news about our former assistant abbot of Bodhinyana- Ajahn Cattamalo
He is now abbot of Muttodaya Forest Monastery in Franconia, Germany. It's located near Bayreuth (Famous for the opera festivals) close to the Czech border.
He has caused quite a stir in Germany, having been interviewed by, TV, radio and FOCUS which is arguably Germany's biggest weekly current affairs magazine:
See here (In German)
URL for the monastery:
http://www.muttodaya.org/
URL for Photos
http://picasaweb.google.com/muttodaya
YouTube (Vesak Sutta Study)
http://www.youtube.com/user/muttodaya
There is a HUGE food fair in Fremantle on the ESPLANADE this Sunday that members of BSWA, BCWA and other Buddhist groups are jointly organising to raise money for the Burmese cyclone victims.
Sunday July 20th
10 am - 4pm.
Get there early and buy big!
Please support it - an enormous amount of work has been put into organsing it by the wonderful Norliah and her group of willing workers.
There will be everything you need to eat or drink for days and weeks to come. No need to cook for months - stock up your freezer! Taste the delights of so many international dishes ... vegetarian and non vegetarian.
And while you are buying you can also be entertained as there are festivities arranged alongside ... with live music!
With the rising cost of petrol and the increasing number of people wanting to come to Dhammaloka but saying they find it difficult on public transport ... we are wanting to set up a system where people who need them can get lifts to Dhammaloka and back home again.
Symon our client services coordinator is therefore wanting a man or a woman ... who can be a volunteer transport officer. (We can give you a badge and a hat if you need them!)
Flexible hours and lots of good kamma.
The position will involve connecting people who need lifts with those who can offer them. All you need to do is collect details from people and provide numbers for people to contact each other. Would be best for someone who is at Friday nights regularly.
Please contact Sy if you are interested ... help save petrol and the environment now!
clients@bswa.org
Ajahn Brahm will be leading the meditation and giving the Dhamma talk on Friday 11th July 2008, 7.30 pm - 9pm.
If you have not had the chance to hear this wonderful and wise monk before do come along - and if you have we know you won't want to miss him!
He will be back from a trip to Canberra - so expect some new tales but unlike last week hopefully not about eating pies at the airport because of a bomb!
This will be the last chances to see him teach for a number of months as the Rains retreat starts on Sunday and he will not be teaching at Dhammaloka for at least three months.
We look forward to seeing you at
18 Nanson Way,
Nollamara.
Rachel
the Prez!
You are invited to join in the celebrations at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine for the Entry to Rains Retreat on Sunday 13th July 2008.
Please view a selection of our current Sangha. The image section of the monks contains only a small selection, we'll keep updating these. The Nun's images are complete. ..
Dhammasara Sangha
Bodhinyana Sangha
(Thank you to Annie Keating for providing these)
A new set of photos demonstrating recent refurbishment work done on Kuti (Monks Hut) Number 3. Supporters of the Monastery, see how wisely the monks spend your donations: Kuti Refurbishment
Thanks to Venerable Pasadika for providing these.
Just letting you all know we have been blessed to have a member offer his services to help produce the next Enlightened Times while Annie is away for three months.
His name is Mark Schneider. If he happens to contact you or you see him taking photographs - you will know who he is!
He can be contacted on westernwriter @westnet.com.au or
ph: 08 9399 4917
Annie and I had a long meeting with him and he has worked as a newspaper editor in various locations and is an experienced sub editor and photographer. Exciting!
The plan is to have articles prepared along the way not at some last minute deadline in September - so please feel able to submit anything you wish as it arises. We have already drawn up a great (in my biased opinion!) list of suggested articles and he is working on those.
Absolute deadline for copy is 8th September 2008. Nothing after that please - and please send well before for anything but last minute news.
All members are encouraged to submit short items of news - including all our overseas and interstate members. We would love to hear from you.
Please make any photographs of high resolution publication quality.
Should be published by the end of September 2008.
I will act in Annie's role to oversee it all.
Much metta
Rachel.
the Prez!