Posted in All Posts, Insight on 3 July, 2008 | No Comments »
The creative impulse - is it a hindrance or a part of the Path?
Meditating involves stopping the mind as still as you can. Even insight meditation - the insights into the nature of the mind are designed to lead to letting go of the thoughts and desires. So where does this leave the creative urge? [...]
Posted in All Posts on 26 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Shambhala Meditation
Every Monday
A place to meditate
Every Monday, 7pm - 8pm, in a spacious shrine room a few minutes walk from the Underground (MRT) line, is a group sitting in the Shambhala Tradition, a reputable lineage and world wide organisation that stems from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, now led by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The meetings are run [...]
Posted in All Posts, In Media on 22 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Imagine living your life in such a way that in the same sentence as your death is announced, the New York Times includes mention of your ‘arrogance and greed’ :
Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who regarded her [...]
Posted in All Posts, Thailand & Buddhism, tagged buddhism, meditation on 21 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Fianl account of the June weekend retreat, 2008:
Click here for a longer account by Dr Will
Last set of pictures from the retreat are below.
Most meditation systems try to focus the mind on an object of concentration, usually the breathing, light or sound (including mantra). Slowing the mind down facilitates mindfulness, the state of self awareness [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 19 June, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Programme: WBU Sunday Forum
Topic: “Hinayana Buddhism in Practice Today”
Date & Time: July 6, B.E. 2551 ( 2008 ) 12:00-13:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Ravindra Kumar
About the speaker
Dr. Ravindra Kumar is an eminent writer, thinker, scholar, political-scientist, peace-worker and educationist having more than 100 works on great personalities of the Indian Sub-continent including Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi [...]
Posted in All Posts, Psychology & Dhamma on 19 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On our June Weekend Retreat we watched the documentary on Louise Hay - which relates to the theme of the meditation we had been doing; watching ones thoughts.
Louise Hay is an eighty year old ‘new age’ inspirational speaker and spiritual guide to thousands, if not millions. Certainly her books have reportedly sold over 35 million [...]
Posted in All Posts, Thailand & Buddhism on 19 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Comsaed Resort:
The first Little Bangkok Sangha meditation weekend
Nice surroundings are conducive to meditation, especially when you are escaping from relentless Bangkok. The Comsad Resort is situated right on the River Kwai, in some 200 rai of carefully managed parkland. Even full of residents the resort is peaceful with lots of space. The grounds are [...]
Posted in All Posts, Thailand & Buddhism on 19 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Summary of the June Retreat at Comsaed Resort on the River Kwai :
In total we had 13 laypeople and 2 monks leaving Wat Yannawa for Comsaed in two mini-busses for the first retreat organised by our own group. We only advertised via the Littlebang blogsite, as it is something of an experiment all around. What [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 10 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We will meet for the June retreat at Wat Yannawa at 8am, and head off in two mini busses just after 8. Call 085 060 7386 if you are lost.
We aim to take lunch at Wat SongDhamma Kalayani around 11 am, where Bhikkhuni Dhammananda will meet us personally. We will also make some ‘Tam Boon’ [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
H.H. Phakchok Rinpoche will be leading the following events:
Sat. and Sun. 21-22 June 2008
Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation (JOL)
by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
21st to 22nd June 2008
at the Park Forum Hotel
Soi Vati, Chand Road, Yannawa District
Bangkok, Thailand.
(Located in the lane opposite the Baan Nondzee Condominium on Chand Road.
Near the intersection of Chand Road and Narathiwat Rachanakarin [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 3 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche will lead the Event:
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Lecture: “Healing in Buddhism”
Place: Mongkolnavin Conference Room
10th Floor, Queen Sirikit Building (Sor.Gor. Building)
Rajadamri Road, Bangkok.
(Near the King’s Building / Por.Bor.Ror. Building).
Get off the BTS at the Saladaeng Station.
Or MRT (underground) Silom Station (Lumpini Exit).
Time: Registration starts at 11:45 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
English Synopsis of
‘VAJRASATTVA EMPOWERMENT”
And Speech on “HOW TO ACCUMULATE MERIT”
by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
on Thursday evening, 19 June 2008
in Bangkok, Thailand
At the Bodhgaya Hall, DMG Co. Ltd., 22nd Floor, Amarin SOGO Building,
beside the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel on Ploenchit Road, Bangkok.
Registration starts at 5:00 p.m. No registration fee.
VAJRASATTVA EMPOWERMENT (5:30 p.m. - 6:30 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
HH Phakchok Rinpoche will be leading the following event:
Lecture in English by His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche
Lecture: The Great ‘I’
Place: Grand Ballroom, 11th Floor
Tawana Hotel
(In the Rear Building of the Hotel)
Surawongse Road, Bangkok.
Get off at the Saladaeng BTS Station.
Walk through Patpong Road and turn left on Surawongse Road.
Time: 5:00 p.m. [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Profound Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa from the Nyingma School of Early Translation and throne-holder of Riwoche Taklung Kagyu Lineage. His Holiness is currently Vajra Master of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath (Kathmandu, Nepal), Abbot of Do-ngak Nyida Zungdrel Sherab Raldri Ling Monastery (Nepal), Abbot [...]
Posted in All Posts, Insight on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Some people can spend up to 18 years of their life in traffic, a new report from London claims. That is one long traffic jam. How about a simple meditation exercise that will not make you late or get a dangerous driving ticket.
These guys have clearly not been to Bangkok.
Most people in Britain spend five [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 1 June, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Saturday June 28 2008 - Movie date !
Holy Smoke !
Holy Smoke is a fun movie from 1999 revolving around two, ever brilliant actors Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. Kate’s character undergoes a spiritual transformation with a guru in India and her family don’t like it. They trick her into returning to Australia, and force her [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 1 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Highly venerated Tibetan, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche will be visiting Bangkok from June 16 - 22. There will be a series of events arranged while he is here in English and English/Thai.
His homepage is here: http://phakchokrinpoche.org/phakchokindex.htm with all information and background details. We will post up details of places and schedules for his public talks in [...]
Posted in All Posts, Upcoming events on 1 June, 2008 | Comments Off
While not really Dhamma, some of the titles in the Bangkok Book Club’s list are somewhat interesting. Several of us psychologists have read or are reading the book for October The Geography of Thought - which examines the differences in fundamental ways of thinking between Asian cultures and Western cultures. In this sense it relates [...]
