🙏 INVITATION: CELEBRATE PEACE AND MINDFULNESS AT LANKARAMA BUDDHIST TEMPLE: The Los Angeles Sri Lankan Theravada monks of Lankarama are honored to invite everyone to join in a profound Vesak celebration, marking the birth, great enlightenment, and final passing of the BuddhaSiddhattha Gotama (Shakyamuni).
This sacred event is an opportunity for community, introspection, and spiritual growth.
🗓️ Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
🕔 Time: Starts at 5:00 pm (PT)
Who? Everyone is welcome!
All participants are encouraged to observe the Eight Precepts and join us for a meditation retreat throughout the Vesak program. It is a wonderful chance to deepen practice and find inner tranquility.
La Puente is a suburb in the SGV of LA County
How to join: 📍 ON SITE (in-person): Experience the celebration firsthand at Lankarama Buddhist Temple, 398 Giano Ave., La Puente, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
💻 ONLINE (virtual): If unable to attend in person, join live on: Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok.
Follow and subscribe to @BhanteDevananda for livestreams and updates. For more information or inquiries: 📞 Phone: (626) 913-0775 📧 Email: LankaramaUSA@gmail.com. May all beings be well and happy!
Students of the Dharma, tomorrow (Saturday, May 17th, 2025) instead of Bhikkhu Bodhi's regular class on the AN, the venerable American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk will be giving an online lecture on the Abhidhamma ("Higher Doctrine") through another Buddhist organization, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's Tergar:
All regular students are welcome to join this program, which will run from 10:00 am to 11:30 am (ET).
Find more details and a registration form here: Tergar Events
Note two options on the registration form: (A) If no translation from English to another language is needed, register to view the lecture through YouTube. (B) If translation into another language is needed, register to view the lecture through Zoom.
With metta,
BAUS via Wisdom Quarterly
"Many, fearful of annihilation [extinction] at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst."
- Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Ven. Buddhaghosa, the great Buddhist scholar-monk, compiling Theravada Abhidhamma texts
Seeking a deeper understanding of your own mind — a map to greater well-being? Join us for a special online webinar with Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, a renowned Buddhist scholar and teacher of Buddhist philosophy, as he unravels the profound wisdom of the Abhidharma.
Often referred to as “Buddhist psychology,” the Abhidhamma [the “Dhamma in Ultimate Terms" or “Higher Doctrine”] offers a detailed map of consciousness, illuminating the intricate workings of our thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
In this event, Bhikkhu Bodhi will guide us through the “topography” of consciousness and core principles of the Abhidharma, exploring how this ancient system of analysis can provide valuable insights into the causes of suffering and the path to innate well-being.
By systematically exploring the inner landscape of mind, we can clarify which mental states lead to suffering, which cultivate happiness and well-being at present and in the future, and which ultimately lead to full inner freedom (enlightenment, awakening, bodhi).
This is a unique opportunity to learn from a renowned master teacher and deepen your understanding of these essential teachings.
Why attend?
Wow, so my emotions actually make sense.
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is a respected Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his clear and insightful teachings on Abhidharma, the system of Buddhist psychology. Bhikkhu Bodhi's teachings emphasize the importance of understanding the mind by systematically guiding us to recognize confusion and discover the reality that leads to profound self-understanding and lasting well-being.
What will we learn?
But consciousness is too big to understand! - Successful meditators understand it.
. In this program, participants will get an overview of the Abhidharma's teachings and learn the classifications of consciousness how to cultivate beneficial mental states
What is included in this program?
Included in this LIVE teaching by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is a presentation followed by a Q&A session, during which participants may ask what pertinent questions they like.
Cost?
This webinar is free of charge, so no payment is required.
Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American-born Buddhist monk from New York City. After completing his PhD in philosophy at Claremont in Los Angeles. He then traveled to Theravada Buddhist Sri Lanka, where he received full ordination in 1973, under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera. From 1984 to 2002, he served as editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German Buddhist monk Ven. Nyanaponika Mahathera at the Forest Hermitage. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS.org) in Carmel, New York. More
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American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi from New York is holding a retreat.
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What did the Buddha teach laypeople?
During the Buddha’s time, tens of thousands of people left the household life to take up the monastic life of wandering ascetics.
The Buddha also had hundreds of thousands of lay disciples who continued to live at home.
To guide these lay disciples, the Buddha offered a rich body of teachings to enable them to live the best life — a truly noble life — while fulfilling their household duties.
Venerable Bodhi, scholar-monk
Over four days, from Friday evening, Aug. 30, through Monday mid-afternoon, Sept. 2, Bhante (Bhikkhu Bodhi,the most prolific English translator of early Buddhist texts in the world) will lead a retreat focused on the Buddha’s teachings for laypeople.
The retreat will be based primarily on the Maha Mangala Sutta ("Great Blessings Discourse"), but Bhante will gather a vast number of [Pali canon] sutras and other texts that show how a lay disciple can walk the path to liberation while dwelling amid “the dust of the world.”
It will also provide the opportunity for those who haven’t yet “gone for guidance” (sarana) to go for guidance to the Three Jewels, the first decisive step to formally becoming a follower of the Buddha-Dharma, the Path taught by the Buddha.
This retreat will be in hybrid mode, onsite and online. The teachings will be in English only. Those who wish to join in person can come to BAUS.org (Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel, NY) and stay from Friday until Monday afternoon.
Attend live, over Zoom, or on YouTube
Those who cannot attend in person can practice at home, participating online over Zoom or YouTube.
The monastery can accept only 50 onsite practitioners. If one applies after the 50 spaces have been filled, one will be put on a waiting list and accepted if prior applicants drop out.
If not joining in person, please join from home via Zoom or YouTube. Register to participate onsite only if making a commitment to stay for all of it until Monday afternoon. If participating only part time, please join through the online channels.
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The Middle with Jeremy Hobson is a weekly, live national call-in talk show aimed at elevating the voices of people in “the middle.”
[It is heard in Los Angeles on laist.com (kpcc.com, 89.3 FM, Thursdays at 10:00 pm), and tonight's show closed with an amazing segment by Johann Hari (johannhari.com) on cellphone and Internet addiction.]
Americans who are geographically, politically, or philosophically in “the middle” are crucial in our politics, yet they are often ignored.
In the US, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only 3 minutes. Like many of us, author Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live.
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So he went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention. He discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: Our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for their profit.
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ABOUT: The Middle is a non-partisan, non-judgmental, non-condescending space where all can feel comfortable sharing their views and being part of the conversation. Veteran public radio host Jeremy Hobson is joined by two panel guests each week along with DJ Tolliver spinning tunes. Hosted by Jeremy Hobson Thursdays 10:00-11:00 pm.
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Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; guest Johann Hari wit host Jeremy Hobson, The Middle, July 11, 2024 via laist.com
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