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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs on 1 January, 2008 | No Comments »
[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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged statistics on 9 December, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged burma protests, U vamsa on 1 December, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, In Media, Member's Blogs, tagged Burma, mahasi, Protests on 14 October, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in All Posts, Member's Blogs, tagged Thai Buddhism on 6 October, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
