Report on the talk by Marcus:
Ajahn Jayasaro started his talk last night, to over 200 people in the Baan Aree Library, with the story of a scholar willing to go through any hardship to find the perfect teaching. Eventually he’s directed to a great Master and he bows before him. “Tell me” he asks, “the [...]
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Report on A. Jayasaro’s Talk
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 10 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Meditation and Offerings
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 23 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A great post from Marcus’ blog from his experience at YBAT. This organisation provide meditation for 10’s of thousands of people every year through their 3 centres. While the general population of ‘Buddhist’ Thailand might not be ardent regular yogis, it is impressive that most Thai’s have been on meditation retreats at some point and [...]
Turning 40
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 28 May, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Wed 27th May: Phra Cittasamvaro – Personal musings on turning the big
40
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I don’t have a lot. I live in a room 4 meters by 3 meters, with a small attached bathroom. The water is clean and the room quarantined from insects and other nasties by working mosquito screens. There is no glass in the windows, [...]
Vipassana – Jeff’s book
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged Bangkok meditation, Jeff Oliver on 20 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A message from Jeff Oliver, who will be back in Bangkok next week and leading a meditation session at the beautiful Ariyasom Bangkok Boutique Hotel, Sukhumvit 1.
Jeff has also made his book on Vipassana available online for free – see below.
Dear Friends,
here is another update on my movements this year in case you’re interested…
Now I’m [...]
HHPCR – Marcus’ reflections…
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged Bangkok dharma, Phakchok, Rinpoche on 26 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, in his final appearance in Bangkok this visit, gave a lively talk to around a hundred people packed into the undersized and overheating meeting room of the Tai Pan Hotel, April 2009. Below is a summary by Littlebanger Marcus, from his online Journal:
His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the Taklung Kagyu [...]
Paradox of Self
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 22 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marcus’ blogged report and reflections on the talk last night with Canadian monk U Vamsa, where about 45 of us gathered at the lovely Ariyasom Boutique Hotel in Bangkok:
Last night Venerable U Vamsarakkhita, known as U Vamsa for short, an eloquent and incisive Canadian monk in the Burmese Theravadan tradition, spoke at the beautiful Ariyasom [...]
Pure Land Buddhism
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged buddhism bangkok, Meditation Bangkok, Phakchok Rinpoche, pure land on 11 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A blog by Marcus, reflecting on some of his affinity for this more unusual School of Buddhism:
On Sunday the 26th of April, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, the head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, is giving a talk in Bangkok entitled ‘Who is Amitabha Buddha?’. Before then, I hope to organise my own [...]
Anecdote from Meditation Retreat
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 22 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A handwritten note from the meditation retreat last January:
I LOVE the ‘mindfulness eating’.
It presented me with a curious incident with a carrot. I’ve had some really lousy cooked carrots in my past … so I stared down an innocent, rather beautifully fashioned small bit of carrot … imposing my opinion on it. I thought “push it [...]
Describing the Undescribable
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 16 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Different traditions have very different teachings. Can they all be pointing to the same thing? Or is that just a ‘liberal’ approach that tries to be too inclusive? Arthur’s reaction to Jill Bolte Taylor
Most Buddhists, despite a respectful nod to their counterpart schools, feel their own way is the right one. Genuine spiritual experiences come [...]
Any moment but this..
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 20 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Doctors, magazines and self-help books all recommend meditation as a way to relax, relive stress and restore harmony and balance of body and soul. Is it really like that? Or does meditation feel like hard work, fell like you are moving faster not slowing down? So you do what any modern person does when they [...]
Jeff Oliver Talk Photos
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 15 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nov 2008 Australian meditation teacher Jeff Oliver stopped off in Bangkok to give a Dhamma talk entitled ‘How to Meditate’. A long time student of Burmese Master Sayadaw U Janaka, he took us through basic Samadhi practise using the breathing at the nostrils, and then vipassana awareness in the six senses.
First is gathering in the [...]
Character Development
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 28 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Summary: Richard Rubacher, who is presenting the WBU talk this month (Sun 2 Mar) spills some insider information on the process of Hollywood scripting. Talk will be entitled 'Hollywood and the Buddha']
Hollywood & the Buddha-detailed info
By
Richard Rubacher
Three things happen to a person in a character-driven film.
The ego is tamed and the person changes for the better. [...]
Kinds of Friend
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 11 February, 2008 | 5 Comments »
[Summary: Note from Littlebang speaker and key member David Holmes on kinds of Friends (kalyanamitta in Pali) in Dhamma]
Things are, indeed, getting a little too quiet on the littlbang horizon and people stop looking if there is nothing new on the site to interest them, so what we need to do is encourage a few [...]
Top Five Buddhist Books
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged Buddhist Books on 4 January, 2008 | 7 Comments »
[Summary: By Cittasamvaro - Marcus tagged me for a list of five Buddhist books - so my personal list such as it is]
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I have been ‘tagged’. I am still not quite sure what it means (I was googling it up thinking it to be a tech computer term, which frustratingly it is) but I guess it is something [...]
Year of the Little Bang
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 1 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Summary: New year messages received, and a note on the humble (little) origins of little bang. Official name meaning]
Thanks to many of you for good wishes and encouragement for the new year. For a long time a number of us were thinking that we need something in Bangkok Dhamma-wise. Lots of people have contributed in [...]
November Statistics
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged statistics on 9 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
LittleBang visitors have been looking at:
824 Front Page
175 Bodhgaya Hall
150 Dhamma Talk Nov 15 & 22
125 Tibetan Monk’s visit Nov 10th
115 Retreats and Centres
92 The End of Religion
88 Special Events
85 Dhammodaya Centre
82 Regular Events
74 Jatukam Amulets
70 Interview with Bhikkhuni Dhammananda
64 Wat Kow Tahm
57 Wat SongDhamma
55 LittleBang Members
47 Baan Aree Library
37 Bangkok Activities
34 Is That All [...]
U Vamsa’s 10 New Age Myths
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged U vamsa on 1 December, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[Summary: Canadian monk U Vamsa (Vansa), gave 2 talks for us in November, and below is his list of 10 'new age myths' - ideas that have become widespread, but do not fit with Buddhism:]
Ten New Age Myths
Myth: Primitive tale imaginatively describing or accounting for phenomena; prevalent or false belief; person or thing falsely believed [...]
Reflections of a Canadian Monk in Burma
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged burma protests, U vamsa on 1 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
U Vamsa, Canadian monk, was in Burma at the time of the recent protests, and recorded his reflections on the situation in the poem below:
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Then Came the Night
A crowd, a glorious crowd, came in peace
Led by the ones in maroon and golden robes
Hope was alive; Freedom’s sweet taste was nearer than ever
The heavy sweaty [...]
Is That All There Is?
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 9 November, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[Summary: Little Bangkok Sangha key figure Dr Will Y. on the lure and aversion to the "New Atheists" championed by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens et al.]
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all [...]
Burma’s Tower
Posted in All Posts, In Media, Member's Blogs, tagged Burma, mahasi, Protests on 14 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If the calendar is kind to us, in November we will have Canadian monk U Vamsa to give a talk or two for us. He has been a follower of the burmese Mahasi tradition for a long time, culminating in his ordination five years ago. Inevitably I asked him about Burma, where he no longer [...]
The Gathering Form
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged Thai Buddhism on 6 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a recent email from Tataaloka Bhikkhuni in the US :
The first recitation of the Theravadan Pali-text Bhikkhuni Patimokkha in North America will be held on November 9th, 2007 at the Carolina Buddhist Vihara in South Carolina.
The “Bhikkhuni Patimokkha” is the monastic discipline for fully ordained women in Buddhism; its recitation one of the [...]
Meditation Retreat Opportunity
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 30 September, 2007 | 3 Comments »
[Summary: blog by Little Bangkok Sangha member Cindy, on her retreat at Wat Kow Tahm. Cindy is a long time meditator and experienced retreat attender]
Hello Dhamma friends!
Last month, I attended a wonderful Vipassana retreat in Nakorn Prathom, about 90 minutes west of Bangkok, at a meditation center called Dhammodaya. There is another retreat going on right [...]
The Departure of Alan Oliver
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 30 July, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Alan Oliver will be leaving Thailand on the 2nd of September after a number of years working in the World Buddhist University and running workshops under the banner of the Asoka Centre. Hopefully we can continue to cement the loose organisation of people that has been coming together – in many ways this Blogsite is [...]
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