3-Day Weekend Retreat with Ajahn Tiradhammo
Friday, 15th to Monday, 18th March 2019
Fully Booked–Waiting List Only
Ajahn Dtun to Visit Australia
18th to 25th April Victoria
For further details, please contact Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV)
71 Darling Rd Malvern East VIC
bsv.net.au
In the Presence of Nibbana
Ajahn Dtun @ Wat Buddha Dhamma
Fri 26th April Meal Offering 10 am
Fri 26th April Q & A 11:30 – 1 pm
Sat 27th April Meal Offering 10 am
Sat 27th April Q & A 11:30 – 1 pm
Sat 27th April Dhamma Talk 7 – 9 pm
Ajahn Dtun at Buddhist Library
90-92 Church St. Camperdown
Tuesday 30th April
The Way to True Happiness
7-9 pm
For directions, please call 02-9519-6054
Vesak Celebration
Saturday 19th May 2019
Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and Dhamma Talk
10 – 3 pm
Rains Retreat 2019
16th July to 13th 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.
Kathina Ceremony
Sunday 27th October 2019
Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and Dhamma Talk
10 – 3 pm
16th July to 13th 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.
Kathina Ceremony
Sunday 27th October 2019
Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and Dhamma Talk
10 – 3 pm
To register for upcoming retreats, please fill out an online application form at www.wbd.org.au. For further enquiries, please email: wbdoffice@gmail.com or call the office at 0409-389-887 between 9 – 12 noon.
The Sacred Equation
The following is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Ajahn Dtun, which was recently published in a new book, The Sacred Equation. If you would like a copy please visit: www.forestsanghaspublications.org
Layperson: Will we be able to attain to the Dhamma by only watching the arising and ceasing of all mental objects within the mind? I was told that Dhamma practice for modern people should be more mind-oriented, because we are required to think a lot and have also received a better education than previous generations?
Ajahn Dtun: It is true that in this modern age people have received a very good education and possess much knowledge. However, their knowledge is only the worldly kind of intelligence, it is not wisdom. Wisdom is what enables us to free our hearts from the defilements of greed, anger, and delusion.
No matter how much they watch their mind, those who like to practise the method of ‘doo jit’-watching the mind- cannot remove the mental defilements. The only way to do so is to go to the very source of the defilements—the body. It is our deluded attachment to and identification with the body as being ourselves that give rise to greed and anger.
Ajahn Dtun: It is true that in this modern age people have received a very good education and possess much knowledge. However, their knowledge is only the worldly kind of intelligence, it is not wisdom. Wisdom is what enables us to free our hearts from the defilements of greed, anger, and delusion.
No matter how much they watch their mind, those who like to practise the method of ‘doo jit’-watching the mind- cannot remove the mental defilements. The only way to do so is to go to the very source of the defilements—the body. It is our deluded attachment to and identification with the body as being ourselves that give rise to greed and anger.