SDS Appreciation Day

15th November 2009

9am-11am

Parents and family of SDS children are invited.

Program: Children’s performance, gift presentation, tea ceremony, game, refreshment.

The dates for SDS 4th Term are 4th October, 11th October, 25th October, 1st November, 8th November and 15th November.

Please remember to come kids!

Regards

Date : 11 September 2009 Friday

Time : 8pm -10pm

Brief outline of the sutta : Paticca Samuppada

A key concept in Buddhism, variously translated—e.g. ‘dependent origination’, ‘conditioned genesis’, ‘interconnected arising’, ‘causal nexus’. It states that all physical and mental manifestations which constitute individual appearances are interdependent and condition or affect one another, in a constant process of arising (samudaya) and ceasing to be (nirodha). The analysis is laid out in, e.g., Samyutta Nikaya 2. 1–133 and Digha Nikaya 2. 55–71. The ‘knitting-together’ which constructs appearances and activities in the realm of samsara is the twelve-link (nidana) chain of paticca-samuppada, which leads inevitably to entanglement and dukkha (the cessation of dukkha being the unravelling of the chain in reverse order): (i) ignorance, avidya leads to (ii) constructing activities, samskara, to (iii) consciousness leading into another appearance/birth, vijñana, to (iv) nama-rupa, name and form of a new appearance, to (v) the sense awareness of the six object realms, to (vi) contact with those environments, to (vii) sensation and feeling, vedana (see SKANDHA), to (viii) craving, tanha, to (ix) clinging on to life and further life in a new womb, upadana, to (x) further becoming and appearance, bhava, to (xi) birth, jati, to (xii) old age, senility, and death.

JOHN BOWKER. “Paticca-samupp?da.” The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 8 Sep. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

with metta,

Below are the schedule for the programme:

8 :00 pm Buddha Vandana

8:20 pm Dhamma discourse  “Significance Of Gratitude & Compassion”

8:50 pm Chanting of Dhajagga  Sutta

Overcoming From Fear & Night Mares

9:30 pm Blessing Session for Speedy Recovery for injured volunteers,

Sis Reena Lim & Tsering Stobdan (the driver)

9:45 pm Meditation On Death Awareness  & recital of “Marananussati”

10:00 pm Transference of Merit to departed Dhamma Volunteers;

Sis GG Tan, Sis Julie Ang & Sis Mrs Teh

We are pleased to inform that Bhante Kassapa has agreed to conduct a short

course on Tipitaka and also one day meditation retreat in our centre.

21 August                       -       Introduction to Tipitaka (Part 1)

(8-10 pm, Friday)

23 August                       –       On day Retreat on “Mindfulness Of Breathing Meditation“ (Guided Meditation)

(8.30 – 4.30 pm, Sunday)

4 September                     -       Introduction to Tipitaka (Part 2)

(8 – 10 pm, Friday)

Introduction to the Pali Canon, The Tipitaka of the Theravada tradition.

The path of learning the Buddha’s words correctly presented by Most Venerable Bhante Kassapa.

In this session, you will be able to learn a concise account of the Tipitaka, known as Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vinaya Pitaka.

Benefits you will achieve by attending this session are:-

• Overcoming doubts of the Buddha’s teaching
• Developing your knowledge of the Buddha Dhamma
• Guiding you in applying the original teachings of the Buddha in your daily life
• Learning the original teachings of the Buddha
• Understanding the significance of Pali Language
• Increasing your power of confidence in the Buddha, Dhamma and the Noble Sangha
• Educating your mind the value of the preservation the oldest and most faithful tradition known as the Theravada
• How Buddhism helps in the modern world
• Learning of the moral and spiritual values
• Learning of the timeless and universal principles of Buddhism.

Sg Long Buddhist Society will be organizing the Ulumbala (Ghost Festival) Day on the 16th August 2009 Sunday. There will be Dhamma talk provided by Bhante Sakkaro, Chantings, Lights Offering, and also Lunch Dana on that day.  Please refer to the leaflet below.

1) 5th august (this Wednesday) at 8.30 pm, “Guided Meditation” by Bhante Kassapa

2) 7th august (this Friday) at 8 pm, Dhamma Talk entitle “The Significant Of Human Birth” by Bhante Kassapa

BIODATA OF LECTURER

Ven. Bhante Kassapa has been conducting meditation classes as a
complementary therapy to patients in Australia for many years. Venerable is the founder & Chief Monk of the Rockhill Meditation Centre, Rockhill
Hermitag – Meditation & Dhamma Study Centre, Udunuwara, Wegirikanda,
Hondiyadeniya, via Gampola, Sri Lanka. Chief Monk and Principal Teacher of Ringwood International Buddhist Study & Meditation Centre (R.B.C.).
Founder, Ananda Maitreya International Dhamma Duta Project Kandy, Sri
Lanka – Melbourne
Patron & Principal Teacher, Vipassana Insight Meditation Foundation
Melbourne Australia Meditation Consultant, Austin Repatriation Medical Centre

Ultimate reality is free from birth, and dying
To meditate deeply, you find out that even ideas like being and non-being, birth and death, coming and going, are wrong ideas. If you can touch reality in that, you realize that ultimate reality is free from birth, from dying, from coming, from going, from being, from non-being. That is why nirvana is, first of all, a removal of notions of ideas that serve the ways of misunderstanding and suffering. If you are afraid of death, of nothingness, of non-being, because you have wrong perceptions on death and on non-being. The French scientist, Lavoure, said there is no birth, there is no death. He observed reality around him and came to the conclusion that it isn’t so great, it isn’t so bad.

The notion of death cannot be applied to reality
When you look at a cloud, you think of the cloud as being. And later on when the cloud become the rain, you don’t see the cloud anymore and you say the cloud is not there. And you describe the cloud as non-being. But if you look deeply, you can see the cloud in the rain and that is why it’s impossible for a cloud to die. A cloud can become rain, snow or ice, but a cloud cannot become nothing. And that is why the notion of death cannot be applied to reality. There is a transformation, there is a continuation, but you cannot say that there is death because in your mind to die means from something, you suddenly become nothing. From someone, you suddenly become no one, and so the notion of death cannot apply to reality, whether to a cloud or to a human being.