Monday, September 21, 2009

Rare Dana for "Worthy" Teachers

An opportunity to make the most beneficial offering is now open to all. Dana (spiritually meritorious support) is being collected for a six-month meditation intensive.

It will be conducted by Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, who has taught in America at the Forest Refuge (Insight Meditation Society) in Barre, Mas-sachusetts as well as in California and Florida, and worldwide. He has a remarkable international reputation making the Teachings of the Buddha available to all who seek it out. Many teachers famous in their own right have studied with him, such as Leigh Brasington, Joseph Goldstein, and numerous IMS teachers.


Wisdom Quarterly fully and without reservation endorses Pa Auk Sayadaw as the foremost Buddhist scholar-practitioner alive today. Wisdom Quarterly regards his personal instruction (if it can be found), and his books and the instruction of his eminent students, as the best available in the world. A few of these teachers include:

(It is enough to say that the Sayadaw and most of his teachers -- certainly those able to teach insight -- have complete and unshakable confidence in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha).

The Sayadaw was most recently teaching in Germany (Pagoda Pat Hue), but frequently teaches in Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Burma to both Theravada and Mahayana practitioners alike. His public talks, retreat instructions, and scholarship are available (for FREE distribution) in several English books (PaAuk.org) and recorded talks (DharmaSeed.org). Download at no cost or find them in hard copy form from WAVE (Wisdom Audio-Visual Exchange), Buddha Educational Foundation (Taiwan), and elsewhere, also at no cost as a gift of Dharma.

This advanced meditation program will be held in the Buddha's birthplace (Lumbini, Nepal) between December 2009 and May 2010. It is for specially identified bhikkhus (Buddhist monks) and sayalays (ten-precept Buddhist nuns).

Everyone, however, is welcome to support this unique undertaking by pledging to provide dana, which is extraordinarily meritorious with recipients of this caliber. All gifts are strictly to cover the following:

  1. Allowable requisites including robes for the Sayadaw (teacher) and meditating monks and nuns
  2. Medicines as needed and allowable according to monastic discipline (vinaya).
  3. Winter necessities including blankets, socks, hot water, and other cold weather items.
  4. General including visas and transportation expenses for the Sayadaw and monastics.
  5. Meditation facilities including lease of premises, electricity, water, dwellings, and logistical arrangements.
  6. Preparation of premises including meditation mats, bedroom furnishings, and so on.
  7. Food for six months (breakfast and lunch only).

To pledge support, kindly contact Brother Lim Poh Chuan at limpc2010@yahoo.com or limpc2010@gmail.com providing your name and contact information.

By the power of your meritorious deeds (karma), may your wholesome wishes come true for the ultimate attainment of the highest truth, nirvana.

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