Transforming the Mind

The topic for this Sunday's Dhamma Talk is Transforming the Mind.

Venue : Sambodhi Centre
Date : 28 April 2013
Time : 9:30am starting with Puja
Speaker : Bro Dassana

Biodata
Bro. Dassana has been practising Vipassana Meditation for the past 20 years. He has done many years of retreats in Burma, Thailand and Malaysia under various teachers. Most of his retreats are in the Mahasi tradition, though he has also explored other traditions as well. He had also been a monk for 17years which gave him the opportunity and time to study the theory and to do long intensive vipassana retreats. 

The Group Meditation goes on as usual from 8:30pm to 10pm on Friday, 26 April 2013.

Activities of the Week

Please find the activities of this week below:

Group Meditation with Sis Gin
Friday, 19th April 2013 from 8:30pm to 10.00pm

8.30-8.35pm : Puja

8.35-8.50pm : Walking Meditation

8.50-9.20pm : Sitting Meditation

9.20-10.00pm : Q&A / Sharing Session

Sutta Class
Sat, 20th April 2013 from 3pm to 5:30pm.
Topic : Ṭhāna Sutta (AN 4.192): How to Know a Person’s Character? 
Speaker : Bro Benny Liow

Dhamma Talk
Sunday, 21st April 2013 starting with Puja at 9:30am
Topic : Much Ado about Nothing
Speaker : Brother Charlie Chia

May All be Well and Happy.

Group Meditation & Dhamma Talk

We welcome you to another group meditation session with Sis Gin this
Friday (12 April 2013, 8.30pm) at Sambodhi Centre.

8.30-8.35pm : Puja
8.35-8.50pm : Walking Meditation
8.50-9.20pm : Sitting Meditation
9.20-10.00pm : Q&A / Sharing Session

The Dhamma Talk on Sunday, 14th April 2013 starts with Puja at 9:30am.

Topic : Satipatthana for Lay Devotees
Speaker : Brother Chan Khoon San

May all be Well & Happy.

Activities of the Week

We are pleased to announce the activities that are lined up for you this week.

Group Meditation
Friday, 5th April 2013 from 8:30pm to 10.00pm

Adiya Sutta (AN 5.41): Benefits to be Obtained from Wealth

Speaker : Bro Benny Liow
Saturday, 6th April 2013 from 3:00pm to 5:30pm

Dhamma Talk and Lunch DanaTopic : Situational Mindfulness
Speaker : Ven. Pannyavaro
Sunday, 7th April 2013 from 9:30am to 12noon

Bhante's Biodata:
Ven. Pannyavaro is an Australian Buddhist monk who has devoted his life to the meditation aspects of the Buddha's teachings. During his meditation training he practiced under several meditation masters in Sri Lanka and Burma including Ven. Sayadaw U Janaka of Chanmyay Meditation Centre, Rangoon, who is the foremost disciple of the renowned Burmese meditation master, the late Ven. Mahāsi Sayādaw.

Ven. Pannyavaro was involved in the beginnings of a number of the very early Buddhist communities in Australia. He later received full ordination at Wat Borvornivet in Bangkok under Ven Phra Nyanasamvarva, the Sangha Raja of Thailand. During more than 30 years of training (since 1974) he has studied and practiced meditation in all of the major Theravada Buddhist countries including long periods of intensive practice of Satipaṭṭhāna-vipassanā meditation at the Mahāsi Sayādaw Centres in Myanmar. 

As a qualified meditation teacher who naturally empathizes with the concerns and needs of Western meditators, he combines his long training and life experience to bring together a practical, in-depth approach to the teaching of Vipassanā meditation. In February 2005, he founded and is the resident teacher monk at Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Community Retreat Centre near Lismore in Northern New South Wales, Australia.

Venerable Pannyavaro is the webmaster and founder of BuddhaNet.net, a computer information network which was established in 1993. BuddhaNet was the first Buddhist BBS (Bulletin Board System) which later evolved into Australia's first Buddhist website. This electronic Buddhist Information and Education Service on the Internet's World Wide Web is now one of the largest and most popular Buddhist website in the world with over 800,000 strikes per day. He has also established and runs the Buddhist eLibrary and the World Buddhist Directory websites.

We hope you take advantage of the wonderful sharing in store for you.