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Establishments of Mindfulness: Maha Satipatthana Sutta Pali & English

From the Author: Before this publication, I wrote a comprehensive commentary on the Maha Satipatthana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Establishments of Mindfulness) based on excerpts from various suttas. The book was published under the title The Supreme Bliss of Nibbana, and gained recognition from pious Buddhist Devotees. Though devotees have for quite some time been requesting that I furnish a book that is suited for chanting the Maha Satipatthana Sutta in both Pali and Sinhala languages, so far it was delayed as I was busy. This publication is in response to the request made by those devotees. If [...]

2020-03-22T12:48:00+00:00July 29th, 2018|Mahamegha Books|0 Comments
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What Increase Matters?

We have a very rare opportunity to learn things that we should give priority to in this life. Normally, if we don’t know the teachings of the Supreme Buddha, then we give priority to insignificant things. Later on, we feel regret and remorse when we realize that we have wasted our time and effort. But when we learn the teachings of the Supreme Buddha, we can very clearly understand the areas where we should give priority, so that we won’t feel regret and remorse in the future. Today we are going to learn some Dhamma about these things. One day, Supreme [...]

2018-05-11T10:59:44+00:00May 11th, 2018|Dhamma Articles|0 Comments
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The Correct Way to Celebrate Vesak

We all love to celebrate our important days like birthdays, the day we get married, successful moments and festivals as well as on special religious days. But do we really celebrate knowing the purpose of celebrating? Do we really gain the true happiness of life by celebrating these kinds special occasions? For example, children and even adults celebrate their birthdays and people offer gifts, sometimes even very valuable. But if we really think wisely, a birthday is not a good day to celebrate just with music and dancing. If we think wisely, it is just one more day that we get [...]

2020-04-30T09:55:57+00:00April 24th, 2018|Dhamma Articles|0 Comments
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Why do Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads?

Shaving the head is one of the rules the Buddha laid down for his monks and nuns. It is one of the key indicators of renunciation showing that a person has given up ordinary life and will live outside of social conventions. Fortunately we can read about the exact situation where the Buddha made this rule. We find it in the section of the monks rules called the Culla Vagga: Now at that time the group of six monks wore their hair long. People looked down upon, criticised, spread it about, saying: “Like householders who enjoy pleasures of the senses.” Monks [...]

2020-03-13T15:11:51+00:00April 20th, 2018|Common Questions|0 Comments
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Archaeologists’ discovery puts Buddha’s birth 300 years earlier

When Professor Robin Coningham's youngest son Gus was five, he was asked at school what his father did. "He works for the Buddha," said the boy. Which led to a bit of confusion, recalls Coningham. But it turns out Gus was not that far off the mark. Last week it emerged that a team led by Coningham, a professor of archaeology and pro-vice-chancellor at Durham University, had made a startling discovery about the date of the Buddha's birth, one that could rewrite the history of Buddhism. After a three-year dig on the site of the Maya Devi temple at Lumbini in Nepal, Coningham and his team of 40 archaeologists discovered a tree shrine that predates all known Buddhist sites by at least 300 years.

2018-04-18T16:06:08+00:00April 18th, 2018|Buddhism|0 Comments
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How to Make Offerings at Buddhist Shrines

Sometimes we make offerings alone, but sometimes we make them as a big group. One of the important ways that Buddhists can collect good karma is by making offerings to shrines with good intentions. People offer all kinds of things to shrines in many different ways. There is no reason to feel self-conscious about doing it “wrong.” Mental states to cultivate: Happiness in making the offering Confidence that acts of giving create powerful good karma Gratitude to the Buddha and our teachers Recollection of the qualities of the Buddha Things people frequently offer Small flowers can be [...]

2018-04-13T11:35:27+00:00April 13th, 2018|Visitor Information|1 Comment
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AN 8.6 Worldly Conditions Dutiyalokadhamma Sutta

How do we experience the world? Are we disturbed by the ups and downs of life? How can we educate ourselves so our happiness is stable in a changing world? “Monks, the eight worldly conditions revolve around the world, and the world revolves around the eight worldly conditions. What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain. These eight worldly conditions revolve around the world, and the world revolves around these eight worldly conditions. An uneducated ordinary person encounters gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. And so [...]

2020-02-18T03:00:51+00:00April 13th, 2018|Dhamma Articles, Suttas|0 Comments
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Help with Offering Meal to the Monks

The Buddha created a spiritual system that makes the monks entirely dependent on lay disciples for all their food. Disciples offer this food to the monks each day. Monks are limited in when and what they can eat. They may only eat food during the morning, from dawn to noon. As well, they may only eat food that has been offered to them by a lay person who has put it in their bowl or their hand. If a hungry monk finds himself sitting beside a table with a banana on it, he may not pick up and eat the [...]

2018-04-11T09:33:54+00:00April 11th, 2018|Visitor Information|3 Comments
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Join with the Evening Chanting

Every evening the monks get together, usually around 6 pm, to have a chanting service. Often local people will join in and you are welcome as well. This is a great way to get an experience of authentic Buddhist culture. It will usually begin by placing some items on the shrine. You may be invited to place some or just touch them as they are being carried. There may be a chanting book in English for you to follow along with. You are also welcome to just listen. Below is a recording as well as the text of the first [...]

2018-04-10T12:22:21+00:00April 10th, 2018|Visitor Information|0 Comments
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Receiving a blessing thread

What is a blessings thread? A blessing thread, or pirit nul (පිරිත් නූල්) is a string that has been chanted over by the monks or nuns. Where do blessing threads come from? When the Buddha was alive he mentioned that there were several of his sermons that were so powerful that the mere reciting of them could bring protection to our lives. To this end, monks will often engage a spool of thread while they are chanting these discourses. Afterwards they will offer pieces of this thread to those who like. The threads can serve as a reminder of the [...]

2018-04-07T09:08:59+00:00April 7th, 2018|Visitor Information|3 Comments
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