Wat Enews January 2015

In the Presence of Nibbana

Practise Weekend

with Ajahn Dtun

Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd March 2015

 Still & Happy

5-Day Easter Retreat

with Ajahn Khemavaro

Thursday 2nd to Tuesday 6th April 2015

 Vesak Celebration

Sunday 24th May 2015

Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and

Dhamma Talk

10 – 3 pm

Vesak Weekend Retreat

with Ajahn Khemavaro

Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015

Rains Retreat 2015

31st July to 26th October

You are cordially invited to spend the

Rains Retreat at the Wat.

To serve and to deepen your practice.

Minimum stay of one month and priority will be given to those who can commit themselves for the entire three months.

 To register for upcoming retreats, please download an application form from our website www.wbd.org.au and send it to office@wbd.org.au.  For further enquiries, please email office@wbd.org.au or call the office at 02-4323-3193 or 0409-389-887 between 9 – 12 noon.

Kathina Ceremony

Sunday 1st November 2015

Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and

Dhamma Talk

10 – 3 pm

Thinking & Doubting

There is this obsession with trying to figure things out—trying to know things through concepts, trying to get proof, to get facts and figures and the word of authority and experts.  Recognize that this is the thinking mind.  We might be highly intellectual, trying to understand Buddhism on that intellectual level, but we’re never able to figure out how to practice.

There is a place where there is no sense of ‘me’ or ‘myself’.  It’s not excited, depressed, bored, or whatever; it’s just empty, a clear, direct knowing.  This is where you have to trust in awareness because your thinking mind is going to doubt endlessly.  Only you can know what’s really happening in your mind.  Recognize that in terms of this present moment, here and now, this is awareness; it’s not your thinking mind.  The thinking mind will imagine anything—anything you think could be possible.  You can doubt yourself, doubt your motives, doubt your ability, and doubt Buddhism.  Doubt is the result of thinking—stop thinking and you stop doubting.

                                            Excerpts from Where Jackals Cease

Volume 5 of The Anthology by Ajahn Sumedho