Activities of the Week

A very Happy New Year!

Please find  the activities of the first week of 2015 below:

Group Meditation

Date : Fri 2 Dec 2015

Time : 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Dhamma Talk

Date : Sun 4 Jan 2015

Time : 9:30 am

Dhamma Speaker: Uncle Vijaya

Dhamma Topic: Meaning of Life

May you be well and happy.

Message from the President of Sambodhi

Dear Bros and Sisters,

GREETINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR 2015

On behalf of Setia Alam Sambodhi Buddhist Association Committee, I would like to wish you a Very Happy and Prosperous 2015! May you all be blessed with good health, joy, happiness and success!

I am glad to note that Setia Alam Sambodhi Buddhists Association has been able to continue to propagate the sublime teachings of the Buddha to everyone at our Centre through all these years.  I sincerely rejoice and with folded palms would like to Sadhu!, Sadhu!, Sadhu! and “Thank you” for your kind and generous support and your keen interests in our activities. 

I would also wish to thank our Spiritual Adviser, Rev B. Sri Saranankara Nayaka Maha Thero for his invaluable advice, all the Dhamma speakers /facilitators, the Sunday Dhamma School teachers and the Venerable members of the Sangha for sharing the Dhamma with the devotees and children. ‘Sadhus’ for the generosity and untiring services which you have all rendered throughout the year for the cause of Dhamma.

For the Year 2015, we are pleased to advise that we shall be continuing with the following regular existing activities:

·         Weekly Sunday Dhamma talks

·         Group Meditation sitting

·         Pali Chanting practices

·         Sutta Class

·         Sunday Dhamma School

·         Chinese New Year Blessing Service

·         Wesak Celebration

In addition to the above, the Exco Committee plans to introduce more Dhamma activities for the benefit of all members. They are:

·         Buddhism for Beginners Course 

·         Meditation for Beginners Course

·         Setting up of a Youth Group

·         Visits to Buddhist centres, both local and overseas

·         Annual Pattidana/Qing Ming (Cheng Beng) Dana (offering of food to the Sangha and dedication of merit to departed relatives and friends)

We shall keep all of you informed from time to time of our new activities via Facebook and E-mail. We sincerely hope we can count on your continued support and active participation in our various activities.

May the blessings of the Triple Gem be with you and all other members of your family. May all beings be well and happy.
 

With Metta,

President,

On behalf of Exco, Setia Alam Sambodhi Buddhist Association Selangor

Group Meditation Practice

The Group Meditation Practice would go on as usual this Friday at Sambodhi Centre. Come and join us.

Date : 26 Dec 2014
Time : 8:30pm to 10:00 pm.

May you be well and happy.

Group Meditation

Group Meditation 

Date: 19 December 2014 (Friday)

Time: 8.30pm -10:00pm

Activities of the Week

Group Meditation
Date: 12 December 2014 (Friday)
Time: 8.30pm -10.00pm

Dhamma Talk & Lunch Dana
Date: 14 December 2014 (Sunday)
Speaker: Ven. Pannyavaro
Topic: The Art of Attention
Time: Puja 9.30am 
         Dhamma Talk 10.00am 
         Lunch Dana 11.30am 
          
** Members are encouraged to bring a dish each for offering (vegetarian dish preferred).

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

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 Venerable Phra Nyanasamvarva, the Sangha Raja of Thailand.
For more than thirty years, he has from time to time studied and practiced meditation in most of the major Theravada Buddhist countries, including long periods of intensive practise of Satipatthana-Vipassana meditation at the Mahasi Sayadaw centres in Burma.
As a Western meditation teacher, Ven. Pannyavaro naturally empathizes with the concerns and needs of meditators in their own culture. His long training and life experience combine to bring a practical in-depth approach to the teaching of insight (vipassana) meditation in contemporary life.
Pannyavaro is the resident teacher, founder, and abbot of Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Community Retreat Centre in Northern New South Wales, Australia. He also gives retreats and teachings from time to time in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. 

Dhamma Talk by Bhante Sujato

A special Dhamma Talk is scheduled this Friday evening at Sambodhi Centre.

Speaker: Bhante Sujato 
Title: "Buddhist Futures"
Date: 5 December 2014 (Friday)
Time: 8.30pm - 10.00pm

Ajahn Sujato (Anthony Best) is an Australian Buddhist Monk. In 1994 he left his music career to take higher ordination in Thailand in the forest lineage of Ajahn Chah. As well as living for several years in forest monasteries and remote hermitages in Thailand, he spent three years in Bodhinyana Monastery (Perth) as secretary of Ajahn Brahmavamso, and over a year in a cave in Malaysia. 
He has combined his love of meditation with study of the Buddha's Teachings, and in 2001 published his first book, "A Swift Pair of Messengers", a compilation of Sutta passages on the theme of tranquility and insight.