Thank you our friend Tzuyi Hsu (Shinko), who stayed in Shanta Vana for a long time and taught us qiqong at Bhante courses. She has been studying Chinese medicine and other healing modalities for many years. Now we are happy to share with you a link to the Facebook page where she posts information that may help us to walk on the spiritual path.
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AcuLight-Holistic-Health-Center-103187745115229
Theme: Comparative Study of Northern and Southern Abhidharma Traditions
Date: 2.23. – 4.12. 2020
Place: Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong (buddhism.hku.hk)
Text for the lectures : purelandassembly.org (below the video) or pdf download
Audio: Download or Archive.org
Video: Pureland Assembly or Archive.org
We thank The University of Hong Kong (buddhism.hku.hk) and Pureland Assembly (purelandassembly.org) for their kindness and for sharing these great lectures.
We have added new video – Foreigners at Pa Auk, Myanmar 1996 (Bhante Dhammadipa is speaking in the part 1)
This practical overview of Buddhist psychology outlines step-by-step methods for examining the source of our habitual tendencies and hangups. In order to truly free ourselves from perpetuating patterns of suffering, the Buddha offered a clear system for understanding our psychological dispositions, processes, fixations, and challenges–a system known as the Abhidharma. This tradition has been studied by Buddhists for over two millennia.
Professor Steven Goodman has taught on the Abhidharma in both universities and Buddhist retreats for over twenty years, making these traditional teachings accessible for a modern readership for the first time. Goodman explains how becoming aware of our mental patterns can liberate us from cycles of emotional pain and shows how the Abhidharma can be applied to meditation practice through exercises of observation and reflection. This is the go-to manual for anyone interested in the world of Buddhist psychology.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Psychology-Awakening-Depth-Abhisharma/dp/1559394226
In The Buddhist Analysis of Matter, renowned scholar Y. Karunadasa interprets the Buddhist view of matter as presented in Theravada Buddhism, based on the Abhidhamma. His comprehensive work draws on both the earlier period containing the seven manuals of the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the later period containing Abhidhammic commentaries, sub-commentaries, and such compendiums as the Abhidhammatthasangaha of Acariya Anuruddha.
In order to bring the subject into a wider perspective, and for more precision, Karunadasa considers the (non-Theravada) Vaibhasika and Sautrantika schools of Buddhism—two of the leading non-Mahayana schools with whom the Theravadins had much in common, both of which subscribed to a realistic view of existence—as well as later sources such as the post-canonical commentaries and related literary sources of Theravada Buddhism.
This book gives us the first clear picture of the Buddhist analysis of matter as such. Earlier works on this subject have tended to focus on the broad philosophical implications arising from the Buddhist theory of matter and were based more on earlier sources, such as the Pali canonical texts. The Buddhist Analysis of Matter provides a much-needed micro view of the topic with a detailed examination of the Theravadins’ list of rupa-dammas—the ultimate irreducible factors into which material existence is analyzed. It exposes the basic material elements into which the whole of material existence is resolved and explains their interconnection and interdependence on the basis of conditional relations. It concludes with an understanding of the nature and relevance of the Buddhist analysis of matter in the context of Buddhism as a religion.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Analysis-Matter-Y-Karunadasa/dp/1614294518
Big thank you to TingJi. We have added 26 new recordings of Bhante’s dharma talks in English and Chinese language. Please, look here – www.dhammadipa.cz/en/recordings-texts/recordings/.
5. – 12.11. – Nosen Yoga, Norway
– more information: here
– samatha meditation
– the course is currently full
2. – 11.10. – Shanta Vana, Czech
– more information: here
– Bhante will lecture in Czech language
20. – 24.9. – Centrum Long, Zaježová, Slovakia
– more information: here
– Bhante will lecture in Czech language
17.9 – 20.9. – Wangdenling, Nová Bošáca, Slovakia
– more information: here
– Bhante will lecture in Czech language
12. – 19.9. – Deer Park Institute, Bir, India
– Canceled
25.8 – 3.9. – Shakya College, Nepal
– Canceled
10.7. – 17.7. Nosen, Norway
– theme: Samatha
– more information here
18.6. – 28.6. Allgau, Germany
– theme: Samatha and Vipassana according Yogacara tradition
– more information here
26.5. – 31.5. Zaježová, Slovakia
– theme: 4 brahmaviharas + interpretation of chapter 6 of Sandhinirmocana sutra
– Bhante will teach in Czech language
– more information here
Teaching at the HK University one semester – Hong Kong
– 16.1. – 30.04. 2020
– more information here
Pure-land Assembly day retreats – Hong Kong
題⽬目: 以淨⼟土法⾨門修四無量量⼼心
內容: 講經及禪修(請法師寫)
主講: 性空法師
時間: 上午9:00-17:00 (Lunch and afternoon tea included)
第⼀一講: 2 ⽉月29號星期六
第⼆二講: 3⽉月2號星期⼀一
第三講: 3⽉月16號星期⼀一
第四講: 3⽉月29號星期⽇日
第五講: 4⽉月6號星期⼀一
第六講: 4⽉月20號星期⼀一
Address: Flat F-G, 2/F Shun Fat Building7 Kik Yeung Road, Yuen Longn.t., Hong Kong
Enquiries: (852) 2476 7730 info@purelandassembly.org
Kadoorie centre Easter holiday retreat – Hong Kong
April 9-13
Address: Lam Kam Road, Shek Kong, Yuen Long, N. T., Hong Kong.
Phone: (852) 2488 5000. Fax: (852) 2488 5285. E-mail: kcbook@hku.hk.
Enquiries: 3917-5078 hkucbs@hku.hk
The Teaching of Abhidharma at HKU – Hong Kong Feb 20, 27
Mar 5, 12, 19, 26
Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 Thursday nights (referred in the list below) )6:30-9:30pm (Due to Wu Han virus no class til 17/2, please check for further information through the university)— MBS teaching at HKU Address: The University of Hong Kong CPD4.0 , Pokfulam, Hong Kong Tel:(852) 2859 2111. Fax: (852) 2858 2549.
Tze Shan Monastery retreat – Tai Po Mar 20-24 Registration needed Address: 88 Universal Gate Rd, Tai Po
Telephone no.: 2123 – 8666
Importance of theory for practice that liberates the mind – Hong Kong Feb 23, Mar 8, 14 Open lecture HKU 3-5pm Address: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiries: 3917-5078 hkucbs@hku.hk
27.12. – 12.1. 2020 – Taiwan, more information here.
Více zde: https://www.dhammadipa.cz/en/events/
The only way, bhikkhus, is this path, for beings‘ purification, for sorrow and lamentation’s overcoming, for pain and displeasure’s disappearance, for the true way’s attainment, for Nibbāna’s realization: that is, the four foundations of mindfulness(cattāro sati∙paṭṭhānā).
‚Mahā∙Sati∙Paṭṭhāna∙Suttaṃ‘ (‚The Great Mindfulness-Foundation Sutta‘)
In The Only Way for the Realization of Nibbāna, the Most Venerable Sayadaw gives a brief summary of the practice necessary for such realization, namely samatha and vipassanā. He bases his discussion on the first section of the ‘Mahā∙Sati∙Paṭṭhāṇa Sutta’, the in&out-breath section of ‘The Great Mindfulness-Foundation Sutta’.
In the preface (pp.1-23), the Sayadaw discusses the ‘Mahā∙Sati∙Paṭṭhāṇa Sutta’ within the context of other suttas where The Buddha discusses the practice necessary for realizing Nibbāna. Afterwards, the Sayadaw discusses the in&out-breath section of the sutta within the context of the remaining sections of ‘The Great Mindfulness-Foundation Sutta’. Afterwards, the entire in&out-breath section is quoted (pp.25-26). And there is a brief discussion of how one progresses from mundane samatha and vipassanā to supramundane samatha and vipassanā (p.27).
The Sayadaw then discusses in practical detail The Buddha’s instructions on samatha in the in&out-breath section of the ‘Mahā∙Sati∙Paṭṭhāṇa Sutta’, beginning with Ever mindful he breathes in; ever mindful he breathes out; ending with ‘Tranquillizing the body formation, I shall breathe in ’: thus he trains. ‘Tranquillizing the body formation, I shall breathe out ’: thus he trains; this being the four stages of development for attaining the four jhānas (pp.28-36).
The Sayadaw then discusses in practical detail The Buddha’s instructions on the four stages of vipassanā. First Thus he abides contemplating the body in the body internally, or he abides contemplating the body in the body externally, or he abides contemplating the body in the body internally and externally; this being direct knowledge and contemplation of ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality through the elements contemplation section of the ‘Mahā∙Sati∙Paṭṭhāṇa Sutta’, as well as the sections of consciousness-, feelings- and dhammas contemplation (pp.37-60). Second He abides contemplating originating phenomena in the body; or he abides contemplating perishing phenomena in the body; or he abides contemplating [both] originating&perishing phenomena in the body; this being the direct knowledge and contemplation of causal and momentary rise&perish (pp.61-65). Third Or mindfulness that ‘there is the body’ is established just sufficient for knowledge, sufficient for mindfulness; this being the higher mundane vipassanā knowledges, prior to the realization of Nibbāna (p.66). Fourth And he abides independent, and does not cling to anything in the world; this being the supramundane realization of Nibbāna (p.67).
The Sayadaw describes each stage of samatha and vipassanā in terms of the Noble Eightfold Path, and he describes vipassanā in terms of the full knowledges described by The Buddha as necessary for realization of Nibbāna, quoted and discussed in the preface. Their mutual correspondence is shown in a table (p.69).
Tables describe the phenomena that make up ultimate materiality (pp.41-45) and mentality (pp.51, 53, 56-59) as described by The Buddha, and their correspondence to the various classifications given by The Buddha in earlier quoted suttas (p.71): the five aggregates (p.72), twelve bases (p.73), eighteen elements (p.74), and four Noble Truths (p.75).
Web: https://sites.google.com/pamc.org.sg/ebookpaauksayadaw
Pdf: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7p0UB1QfBmvS3ZaSzdEOE1Vdnc
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Way-Realization-Nibb%C4%81na-Theravada-ebook/dp/B07WH3BBNP
In accordance with The Buddha’s series of instructions, the Sayadaw first describes how the yogi develops samatha with mindfulness of breathing, until there appears the light of wisdom and the sign of concentration, the nimitta. Then the Sayadaw explains how the yogi develops the gained concentration, until the attainment of the fourth jhāna. Afterwards, the Sayadaw explains how the yogi uses the light of wisdom to discern ultimate materiality, ultimate mentality, and their dependent origination, in order then to develop vipassanā. Finally, the Sayadaw explains how the yogi progresses through the series of insight knowledges until there is realization of Nibbāna. In each case, the Sayadaw explains how the yogi’s gradual development fulfils the thirty-seven requisites of enlightenment: in samatha, in vipassanā, and in the realization of Nibbāna.
Web: https://sites.google.com/pamc.org.sg/ebookpaauksayadaw
Pdf: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7p0UB1QfBmvcl8ycFE1N0xXNGc
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Breathing-Pa-Auk-Tawya-Sayadaw/dp/1697691277
