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Coming Back Home to Awareness

In this talk Ajahn Viradhammo encourages us to see how conditions can be held in awareness.  When anger goes out to an external object there is always an internal experience where this intention arises. Awareness hold this space of the mind moving outward. By quoting Ajahn Dune Atulo’s inverse order of the Four Noble Truths, he expresses how we can come home to awareness:

The mind sent outside is the origination of suffering.
The result of the mind sent outside is suffering.
The mind seeing the mind is the path.
The result of the mind seeing the mind is the cessation of suffering.

From: Gifts He Left Behind, trans. by Ajahn Geoff… Read the rest

Ajahn Viradhammo’s India Pilgrimage Slide Show

Ajahn Viradhammo will be showing slides of his 2015 pilgrimage to the Buddhist holy sites in India. There will be two showings, one in Ottawa and one at Tisarana:

Ottawa: Saturday, July 16 on the Day of Mindfulness around 2:30 pm at the Trinity United Church (1099 Maitland Ave, Ottawa). Please see the OBS website for more information: http://ottawabuddhistsociety.com/activities/days-of-mindfulness/

Tisarana: Saturday, July 23 after the 1:30 pm meditation (beginning around 2:30 pm)… Read the rest

What Is in Awareness? What Is the Knowing?

At the Ottawa Buddhist Society’s Friday night meeting Ajahn Viradhammo asks us again to investigate: “What is in awareness? What is the knowing?” By attending to the transcendent truth we can ask these liberating questions and experience peace whereas questioning the necessary but conventional truth, such as “Its hot in the room, turn on the fans . . .” is limited. Peace comes with knowing, in the sense of non-grasping. Thus knowing is not limited. The mind moving outward comes from grasping or seeking an object whereas knowing, being with, and receiving an object in awareness is an experience of non-grasping and has a liberating quality.… Read the rest

Precepts and Unbiased Attention

Ajahn Viradhammo explains how to use the precepts for our practice and also focuses on the theme of attention and how to consistently keep awareness on a particular object of mind.… Read the rest

The Paramitas

Ajahn Viradhammo explains the Paramitas and how they can help us realize the goals we have set in our lives.… Read the rest

Mindfulness of the Body and the Eight Fold Path – Q & A

This question an answer session follows the above titled talk. Please note that the first question could not be heard well and was deleted. Ajahn Viradhammo summarizes this first question before giving an answer. The questions include: using insight to deal with craving (without using thought), group kamma, and right livelihood.… Read the rest

Tisarana Annual General Meeting to be held on June 26, 2016

This year’s 2016 Tisarana Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016, 1:00 pm at the Tisarana Dhamma Hall at 1356 Powers Road, Perth, Ontario.

The meeting was originally to be held on Sunday, June 12, but due to unforeseen circumstances, this date needed to be changed.… Read the rest

Ajahn Punnadhammo is Looking for a Steward

Dear friends,

Ajahn Punnadhammo, the abbot of Arrow River Forrest Hermitage, is looking for a steward to stay at his monastery. The hermitage is located in Northern Ontario, fifty miles southwest of Thunder Bay, with 92 acre of land in a beautiful mixed forest.

This year Ajahn is short handed after having had some cancellations of stewards. If interested, please write him at: arfh@xplornet.com

As a small hermitage in a non-Buddhist country, Arrow River operates by dependence on a lay steward who lives there and takes care of the duties which monks cannot. This is an opportunity to live at the center for an extended period of time and to serve the Triple Gem. The duties are not time consuming and leave ample time for study and meditation. More information about stewardship at Arrow River is available here: arrowriver.ca/visit/steward
You can also find out more information about Arrow River by going to: www.arrowriver.ca/
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