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Dear Dhamma US friends, we are launching today our Official Website with more features. We sincerely appreciate you for all your blessings so far. Thank you. Have a wonderful Day!
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Bhante Bambalapitye Gnanaloka was kind to launch our website which we think is an auspicious sign of our progress.
Thank you everyone for being with us! Wish you all a wonderful #Happy-Thanksgiving-Day! Let us be grateful and thankful to all those who helped us in every single way all throughout our life! #Dhamma-US sincerely wishes all our friends, family members, relatives, friends, teachers, well-wishers and all - the very best of health, longevity, and the best of spirit to continue your journey of life with less suffering and more happiness! May you all be well and happy and healthy! #Dhamma-US share merits to all our friends' departed ones as well for the wellbeing and happiness of all of them. May all beings be well and happy and healthy! www.dhammausa.com
What is Thanksgiving Day?
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
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The Ten Tasks of Daily Life:
2. Keep a good balance between rest and work. Keep set hours for going to bed and waking up in
the morning. Eat the same amount of food for your 3 meals each day.
3. Develop an exercise routine and walk at least 5000 steps each day.
4. Stay away from tobacco, alcohol, pornography, and drugs. Govern and regulate your own life.
5. Cherish your blessings and be frugal. Do not buy things thoughtlessly or indulgently.
6. Do not eat snacks foolishly nor express anger thoughtlessly.
7. Recite the Buddha’s name 3 times at each meal, and observe the 5 contemplations when eating at
4. Stay away from tobacco, alcohol, pornography, and drugs. Govern and regulate your own life.
5. Cherish your blessings and be frugal. Do not buy things thoughtlessly or indulgently.
6. Do not eat snacks foolishly nor express anger thoughtlessly.
7. Recite the Buddha’s name 3 times at each meal, and observe the 5 contemplations when eating at
home.
8. Go on a journey by yourself.
9. Give away all your possessions at least once in your lifetime to experience the state of emptiness.
10. Manage your time well, use your space well, and be in harmony with the world.
8. Go on a journey by yourself.
9. Give away all your possessions at least once in your lifetime to experience the state of emptiness.
10. Manage your time well, use your space well, and be in harmony with the world.
Reference: For All Living Beings by Venerable Master Hsing Yun
(As for the No. 7 task, I recommend you use your own spiritual master or your own religious leader, i.e. Jesus, Mohammad, Krisna etc. That way you can keep your own faith and be faithful and be a better human being as per your own system of faith.)
(As for the No. 7 task, I recommend you use your own spiritual master or your own religious leader, i.e. Jesus, Mohammad, Krisna etc. That way you can keep your own faith and be faithful and be a better human being as per your own system of faith.)
This is an amazing #YouTube Dhamma Channel channel if any of you really want to explore the in-depth #Dhamma #Practice. The interview process when s/he shares the personal #meditation experience is very impressive. There seem to be a group of very highly accomplished #practitioners linked to this channel led by a powerful #monk who is in good command of his subject. Anyone who has any kind of questions regarding the real complications while practicing, I recommend this is a wonderful channel to follow. This is a great way to improve your right view and practice the #Dhamma and achieve some higher spiritual levels through some meticulous guidelines.
The only concern is that it is in #Sinhala and if someone can put up some #English sub-titles, this can be beneficial to millions of #Truth-Seeking #practitioners. I wish I have time to do some #translations of this project.
Dear #Sinhala practitioners, please carefully listen to all these lessons and make yourself closer to the realization of the #Dhamma.
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මම දැන් මෙතන !!! මේ මෝහෝතේ ඔබ ඉන්නාවූ ඉරියව්ව (අරමුණ ) ඔබට ප්රකටවී තිබේද? එසේනම්, ඒ මෝහෝතේ ඔබට දුකක් හෝ සැපයක් දැනුනිද? නොදැනුනිනම්, ඔබට රාග, ද්වේශ, මෝහ නොමැතිවූ බව අවබෝධ වූයේද? එසේම ! ! ! ඔබ නිවන අත්විඳි බව ඔබට අවබෝධ වූයේද? අවබෝධනොවුනිනම් ! ! ! නිවන වර්තමාණ මෝහෝතේ අත්විඳිය යුත්තක් බවට වන බුදු බණ තවමත් ඔබතුලට කිඳාබැස නොමැති බව පිලිගැනීමට ඔබ සූදානම්ද? ඔව් නම් ! ! ! ! ! මෙම වෙබ් අඩවියට පිවිසීමට ඔබ සුදුස්සෙකි.There is a pop up message to guide you to your own level of practice. Hence you can easily decide your own path.
May all beings be well and happy and healthy!
May all the listeners to this channel realize the Dhamma within this life itself!
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!!!
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Overall Program Schedule:
- December 7 (7:30 PM - 9:30 PM) - UBEF, Hacienda Heights
- December 8 (6:30 PM ) - Monisha's Residence
- December 9 (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM) - Sri Ratana Int'l Buddhist Center
- December 9 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) - Lankarama Buddhist Institute
- December 10 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM) - Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara
- December 11 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) - Long Beach Meditation Center
- December 12 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) - University of the West
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at Universal Buddhist Education Foundation (UBEF)
at Monisha's Residence
at Sri Ratana International Buddhist Center
at Lankarama Buddhist Institute
at Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara
at University of the West
Venerable Bambalapitiye Gñanaloka Thero is a highly venerated senior Sri Lankan Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition. Venerable Gñanaloka is respected for his strict adherence to the Vinaya, deep commitment to meditation and for ascetic practices, similar to those of the ancient disciples of the Buddha. He has a special interest for solitude and simple living, and spends long periods every year in the rugged mountains of the Himalayas, Nepal & India as well as in the deep uninhabited forests of Sri Lanka. He ardently engages in continuous meditation practice as performed in the ancient times. His teachings, are direct and practical and reflects the teachings of the Buddha in simple manner. Venerable Gnanalokas Dhamma talks are suffused with loving-kindness and compassion, and include interesting anecdotes from his experiences as a monk as well as from his early life. Rather than an intellectual abstraction of the teachings, Venerable Gñanaloka tends to focus on practical applications of the Dhamma, for developing wisdom and compassion in daily life.
He was born in Sri Lanka in 1971 to a family of devout Buddhists. At the age of 14, Venerable Gñanaloka accompanied his parents to South Africa and spent the adolescent years with his family in Lesotho. As a teenager Venerable Gñanaloka was serious about cricket, loved to go for walks in the natural wilderness and had an inquiring mind about the causes for world phenomena. At the age of 18, through reflections on phenomena on his own he experienced certain insights. Venerable Gñanaloka explains how when going for long and solitary walks, he came to understanding the realities of life.
He was born in Sri Lanka in 1971 to a family of devout Buddhists. At the age of 14, Venerable Gñanaloka accompanied his parents to South Africa and spent the adolescent years with his family in Lesotho. As a teenager Venerable Gñanaloka was serious about cricket, loved to go for walks in the natural wilderness and had an inquiring mind about the causes for world phenomena. At the age of 18, through reflections on phenomena on his own he experienced certain insights. Venerable Gñanaloka explains how when going for long and solitary walks, he came to understanding the realities of life.
At the age of 23 he returned to Sri Lanka from Nicosia in Cyprus where he was attending University. This return to Sri Lanka was to mark a significant milestone in his life. He began an intensive search into the various aspects contemplative studies, studying in depth the texts of the key religions, such as the Bible, the Holy Quran, the Bhagawat Gita, to name a few. His quest for understanding the nature of the Universe, a deep interest in Astrophysics and an inner calling to discover the expansiveness of the mind, all flowered during this important period of his life. With gradual turning towards the Buddha’s teaching. Venerable Gñanaloka discovered that Compassion (karuna) and Loving-Kindness (metta), as explained by the Buddha, were also part of the core teachings of other religions
An introduction to a saintly, mendicant German monk, Venerable Ñānavimala was the corner stone and turning point in Venerable Gnanalokas life. Greatly influenced by the ardency and ascetic practices of Venerable Ñānavimala, Venerable Gnanaloka spent many years practicing meditation and the Dhamma teachings with his mentor (Venerable Ñānavimala) in the island hermitage, Polgasduwa, in Southern Sri Lanka.
In 1999 he became a novice monk thus entering monkhood at the age of 28 and ordained as a Bhikkhu in 2001 in Sri Lanka..
When he was in his early 20s, even before he became a Buddhist monk, he used to regularly travel to the Himalayas, as well as to the Holy towns of Rishikesh and Badrinath in northern India. After joining the Theravada monastic Order he continued to visit Badrinath and Ladakh and strived in ardent meditation practice in the rugged mountains and ancient caves of the Himalayas. Since 2009, he has been regularly visiting Mount Kailash and Lake Mansoravar in Tibet, to engage in serious ascetic meditation practice. During those journeys he recounts two near-death experiences. He has also been a wanderer, journeying on foot, in the deep forests across Sri Lanka. His constant companion has always been the ancient practices taught by the Buddha.
The year 2012 was significant, in that for the first time, this reclusive monk entered public life and began conducting Dhamma programs to large gatherings. In April 2017 he undertook the first overseas Dhamma Mission Tour to Australia.
Click Bampalapitiye Gnanaloka Thero for his video. There are many videos like this.
This is a quick insight into What is true compassion? what is the value of being religious? How important it is to be united as a human family than divided on the basis of religion, race, caste, class or whatever. Please spend few minutes to learn what this video has offered for you.
May all beings be well and happy and healthy!
This was an amazing ceremony among the many other beautiful Kathina ceremonies in Los Angeles this year. Venerable Saddhanusari's unique creation of the Paritta Mandapa (Pavilion for Chanting) was such a blissful highlight of the event. It was just like a celestial abode. Truly wonderful. The entire ceremony included half night Paritta chanting, dying process of the Kathina Robe and a special Sangha Dana with the participation of around 40 Buddhist monks and several hundred lay devotees.
May all beings be well and happy!
(Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta)
Maha Adhisthana Puja at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka was such an amazing event that took place recently. This note is posted here in recognition of the awesome event organized by Nisalavila Foundation .
Here is the video that we recommend you to watch to have a feeling of what they have done:
Maha Adhisthana Puja at Anurdhapura, Sri Lanka
May all sentient beings be well and happy and healthy! Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!
