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     July 2003
     
     

    DATEVENUEACTIVITIES
     

    Jul 03 
    to
    Jul 31    		Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
    Unravelling the Mystery of Emotions

    

    


    
On-line registration Here
     
email: maitri@kmspks.org
    




    All are welcome
    

    Jul 04 
    to
    Jul 25    		Vipassana  Meditation  Centre  ( Singapore )
    Meditation Course For Beginners
    


    V i p a s s a n a  M e d i t a t i o n  C e n t r e  ( S i n g a p o r e ) 
    No.1 Paya Lebar Walk 
    Singapore 535926 
    Tel: 6445 3984
    
Email: vmckm@singnet.com.sg 
    Web Site: http://www.vmc128.8m.com 
    
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 6.30am to 10.00pm


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Meditation Course For Beginners
    
At Vipassana Meditation Centre (Singapore)
    
Every Friday 7.30pm to 9.30pm
    
from 4 July to 25 July 2003
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    

Session 1 Introduction to Meditation
    

  • What is meditation? Why the need to meditate?

    
Session 2 Brief introduction to two main Buddhist meditation
    

  • Samatha and Vipassana meditation

    
Session 3 Mindfulness practice according to Satipatthana Sutta 

    
Session 4 Preparation for a Meditation Retreat

    
For course details, visit: http://vmc128.8m.com/vmcfirstpage1/page3.html

    
For registration, please email Sam Ho 
    
with your: (1) Name (2) sex (3) age
    
(4) contact -phone and email, and (5) address.
    
Email: samhopru@yahoo.com.sg  
    
Organized by Vipassana Meditation Centre (Singapore)
    
1 Paya Lebar Walk Singapore 535926
    
Tel: 64453984
    
Website: http://www.vmc128.8m.com

    


    All are welcome
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    Jul 06 
    to
    Nov 30    		Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
    Basic Buddhism course

    
New Courses:

    
6 Jul 2003 - 30 Nov 2003 Sun 9am ~ 11am 
    
@ Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Dharma Hall (88 Bright Hill Rd) Register online HERE 

    
Registrants only have to pay a nominal fee of $20 to support printing of textbook and utility expenses. 
Students and NS friends exempted. 

    
8 Jul 2003 - 25 Nov 2003 Tue 7.30pm ~ 9.30pm
     
@ Awareness Place Meditation Centre (#03-39 Bras Basah Complex) Register online HERE 

    
Registrants only have to pay a nominal fee of $50 to support printing of textbook and utility expenses. 
Students and NS friends exempted. 

    


    All are welcome
    

    Jul 12
    to
    Jul 26    		Whispering Hearts Family Service Centre 
    Viriya Lecture Series

    
The Lecture series which was launched last year in conjunction with Ullambana festival focus on building a compassionate and caring society. This year, the Mandarin lecture will be held on 12, 19 and 26 July 2003.

    
This year, we are very pleased that Venerable Pu Ti , a renowned scholar from China has accepted our invitation. He is also the disciple of our President, Venerable Tsang Hui.

    
The talk will commence at 7.15 pm and will be held at the Temple's premises. Admissions to these talks are free but we welcome your contributions to help us to build up The Sangha Welfare Fund which is use to provide financial and medical assistance to the senior members of the Sangha community.


    Whispering Hearts Family Service Centre 
    
Blk 646, Jurong West Street 61, #01-142, S(640646)
    
Tel: 67951008
    
http://www.viriya.org.sg

    All are welcome
    

    Jul 14
    to
    Jul 20    		By Amitabha Buddhist Centre
    Dharma Talks by Venerable Robina Courtin

    

    

Dharma Talks :

    
"The Workshop is the Mind" 
    

  • Mon, 14th July 2003 
    

  • 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm @Amitabha Buddhist Centre 
    

  • No 3 Lorong 15 Geylang 
    
All are welcome 
    
Enquiries: 6745-8547 

    
"Dealing With Emotions" 
    

  • Wed, 16th July 2003 
    

  • 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm @ Amitabha Buddhist Centre 
    

  • No 3 Lorong 15 Geylang 
    
All are welcome 
    
Enquiries: 6745-8547 

    
"The Lies our Mind Tells Us" 
    
Karmic Appearances & Spiritual Courage     
    

  • Fri, 18 th July 2003 
    

  • 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm @ Tanglin Club Auditorium, 5 Stevens Road 
    
( Nearest MRT: Orchard Road) 
    
All are welcome.

     Please adhere to Tanglin Club's strict regulation that all participants are required to register for the talk. Kindly email aini@jaygee.com.sg  by 16th July to confirm your seat. 

    

We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing completely that happiness and suffering come from "out there." But "Everything we experience is our own karmic appearance. Everything is made up by our own minds," says Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 

    
By understanding emptiness - that nothing exists from its own side and everything occurs in dependence upon causes and conditions - we can slowly loosen the grip of ego-grasping and begin to develop our marvellous 
potential for clarity, contentment, love and the other qualities that are innate in us. 

    
"Heart of your Mind: Being your own therapist" 
    

  • Sat, 19 th July 2003 
    

  • 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm @ Tanglin Club Auditorium, 5 Stevens Road 
    
( Nearest MRT: Orchard Road) 

    
All are welcome. Please adhere to Tanglin Club's strict regulation that all participants are required to register for the talk. Kindly email  aini@jaygee.com.sg by 16th July to confirm your seat. 

    

Mind, or consciousness, is at the very heart of Buddhist practice. And knowing and transforming it - the whole spectrum of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions - is work we all need to do. 

    
We all want to be fulfilled, content, joyful. But why is it that no matter how hard we try, we are so often thwarted in our efforts? According to Buddhism it is because we don't give enough power to our own mind and our 
own experiences; we don't deeply understand the inner causes of our experiences. 

    
Although it appears true that the world is the source of our happiness and pain, this is an illusion. We are, in fact, the creators of our own reality, and we need to taste our capacity to experience this. 

    
"Why bad things happen to good people" 
    

  • Sun, 20th July 2003 
    

  • 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm @ Ti-Sarana Temple, 90 Duku Road
    
(Nearest MRT station: Eunos . Take bus no 13 alight at the 2nd bus stop, cross the road and walk along Lorong Nangka, turn left at the T junction and turn right towards Duku Road, )

    
All are welcome
    
Enquiries: 63456741 

    
For lunch offering (dana) with Venerable Robina (1.30 pm - 3.00pm), kindly contact Tara at 96166501 or tara@melwani.com 

    

Biography of Speaker:

    
Venerable Robina Courtin has been a nun for over 20 years in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.She was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up as a Catholic. In the late sixties, She became actively involved in the radical left, working mainly with a London-based support group for Black and Chicano prisoners. In 1974 Robina began studying martial arts in her quest for a spiritual path and two years later, attended a Tibetan Buddhist course in Queensland where she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa. 

    
She spent 10 years editing for Wisdom Publications followed by over 5 years as the main editor of Mandala, an international Buddhist newsmagazine. Since 1997 she has run the Liberation Prison Project for Buddhist Practitioners, which works with people in prisons throughout the US, helping them with their practice and studies by writing to them and sending books, tapes and other materials. She visits prisons in California, Massachusetts, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, giving teachings to groups and meeting them one-to-one. Several of these men are on death row or have life sentences, and some have been involved in gangs, both on the streets and in prison.Ven. Robina's prison work was recently profiled in an award-winning documentary, Chasing Buddha. 

    
For more information, please visit: http://www.fpmt.org/lpp/robina 

    


    All are welcome
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    Jul 14Full Moon in the Chinese Sixth Lunar MonthAsalha Puja or Dhamma Day.



    This commemorates the Buddha's first discourse, the Dhamma-Cakka-Pavattana Sutta (the Discourse on the Turning of the Wheel of Truth) in Sarnath (Isipatana, Benares) - the Deer Park , which he gave to the group of five monks with whom he had practised in the forest for many years. Upon hearing this discourse, one of the monks -- Ven. Kondañña -- gained his first glimpse of Nibbana, thus giving birth to the Noble Sangha. The annual rains retreat (vassa) commences the following day.

    Note: At the end of this first sermon, the Venerable Kondañña became a Sotapanna (a person at the first stage of enlightenment) and then, according to the Commentaries, for example, the Commentary on Vinaya, the other four disciples became Sotapannas, one on each of the four following days. On the first day after the full-moon day in July, the monk Vappa became a Sotapanna; on the second day, Bhaddiya; on the third day, Mahanama; and on the fourth day, Assaji. After they became Sotapannas, they all asked Buddha for ordination. Buddha ordained each of them by calling to them, "Come monks." On the fifth day after the full-moon day, the Buddha assembled them and preached to them this discourse Anatta-lakkhana Sutta. -The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic (no-soul or anatta) 

    ( Note: Try this site which is my favourite explaination for :- NO INNER CORE - ANATTA . By Sayadaw U Silananda  )




    The Dhamek ( Dhammacakka ) Stupa marks the exact spot where the Buddha delivered His first Discourse Dhamma-Cakka-Pavattana Sutta at Sarnath (Isipatana, Benares) - the Deer Park. Photograph was taken from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9449/holysite.htm
    


    






     


       
 
     
     August 2003
     
     

    DATEVENUEACTIVITIES
    


    Aug 01
    to
    Aug 17    		Singapore Takashimaya Square B2
    Buddhist Art: Wish Of A Lifetime

    

    


    All are welcome
    


    Aug 01
    to
    Aug 22    		Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
    August 2003 Meditation Appreciation Course

    


(July Course Full. Overflowed registrants will be notified for next course.)

    

Every Friday 7.30pm - 9.30pm 
    
01 Aug 2003 :	(1) How to Take Care of Your Mind	
    
18 Aug 2003 :	(2) Who are You? 
    	
15 Aug 2003 :	(3) Practice in Daily Life	
    
22 Aug 2003 :	(4) Development of the Path	

    
Venue: Awareness Place Meditation Centre 
    
@ Bras Basah Complex #03-39

    
Course Structure:
    

  • Evil, Good and Pure		

  • Five Aggregates		

  • Practice in Daily Life	
    	
	---Four Sublime States
    	
	---Eleven Benefits of Loving Kindness
    	
	---Eight Worldly Conditions	
    

  • Meditation Instructions	
    	
	---Loving Kindness
    	
	---Impurities of the Body
    	
	---Concentration
    	
	---Insight

    	
Go to APMC Meditation website here  or Click here to Register 
Please call 63365067 (Mon, Tue, Fri 6.30pm-9.30pm only)
or email apmc@awarenessplace.com for any queries.


    All are welcome
    • 

    Aug 02 
    to
    Aug 10    		Vipassana  Meditation  Centre  ( Singapore )
    9-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat

    



    Sayadaw U Pannananda will conducting a retreat at 37 Limau Grove S(467836). The medium of instruction is English with mandarin translation upon request. No fee is required. For registration, pls email your form to jimmy@prabhakara.com or call 67823579. You may also send it to Jimmy’s home, Blk 286 #07-171Tampines St 22 S(520286), and not VMC . 

    
Vacancies are limited to 15 persons and priority be given to full-timers. The closing date is 21 July 03. For more details, pls read attached or go to website:  

    
(* Dharma Workers and Donors, please SMS Bee Wee at : HP 96315732 or email : bweeng@singnet.com.sg if you are able to assist. Thank you.)

    


    All are welcome
    


    Aug 02
    &
    Aug 09    		Buddhist Library , The
    Zen talk and retreat by Dennis Duermeier

    
Is your life a good dream of a bad one? How do you wake up from your dreams? Are you awake in life? Descartes said,"I think, therefore I
am." Zen Master Seung Sahn says,"I'm not thinking, then what?" How do you find out? Find out more from Zen teacher Dennis Duermeier with his public
talk and one-day Zen retreat.

    
a) The Wake Up! Talk
    
Date: 2 August 2003 (Saturday)
    
Time: 7.30pm
    
Attendance is free.

    
b) The Wake Up! Retreat
    
Date: 9 August 2003 (Saturday)
    
Time: 6am-9pm
    
Fee: $120 (non-member)
    
$100 (member)
    
lunch and dinner included

    
Due to the need for individual interviews and the time constraint, this retreat is limited to 30 persons.

    
Dennis Duermeier has been a student of Korean Zen Master, Seung Sahn, since 1982. He became Dharma teacher in 1985 and received inka as Dharma
Master in 2000. He has served as abbot of the Kansas Zen Center (1996-2001) and is guiding teacher (since 2000) to three Zen Centers in
Florida, the Cyprus Tree Zen Center at Tallahassee, the Gateless Gate Zen Center at Gainesville, and the Orlando Zen Group at Orlando. He has been
invited to give Dharma talks and lead retreats at Zen Centers across America, including Indianapolis, Providence, New Haven, Seattle, Los
Angeles, and San Francisco. Since January 2003, he has led and attended retreats and given talks in Kansas, Florida, and Providence. When not
teaching, Dennis carves Chinese calligraphy on wood; these have been used as Dharma gifts.


    All are welcome
    


    Aug 12Full Moon of the Chinese Seventh MonthUllambana Day
    Most Chinese Buddhists celebrate the Full Moon of the Chinese Seventh month by having prayers, general transferring of merits to the beloved departed ones and to the wandering spirits during Ullambana Day. Read about the  Ullambana Sutra.
    

    Aug 14
    to
    Aug 22    		Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery,  Tai Pei Buddhist Centre  and Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
    Public Talks By Venerable Jing Yin

    

    
Date: 14/08/2003 
    
Topic : ( in Mandarin ) click here for details

    

Date: 15/08/2003 Friday
    
Topic : Meditation: The Ancient Solution for Today's Problems (English)

    
Date: 21/08/2003 
    
Topic : ( in Mandarin )  click here for details

    


Date: 22/08/2003 (Friday)
    
Topic : Attaining & Balancing Your 3 Wealths: Material Wealth, Emotional Wealth & Spiritual Wealth (English)

    

Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm 
    
Venue: Kreta Ayer People's Theatre
    
30A Kreta Ayer Road (Near Outram Park MRT Station)
     
Free Admission

    
How to get there? Please Click  [Here] 



    All are welcome


    

    Workshops by Venerable Jing Yin


    
Date: 16/08/2003 (Saturday)
    
Topic:The Secret of the Buddha's Smile: Why Buddhists Are Happier & How You Can Be Happy Too

    

  • Improvement of social environment

  • Improvement of human relationship

  • Improvement of personal cultivation

    
Date: 17/08/2003 (Sunday)
    
Topic : Exploring the Meaning of Life, Death & Rebirth

    

  • By recognising how short and precious life is,we can make it meaningful and live it fully.

    

  • By understanding the process of death, we can be fearless at the point of death and ensure a good rebirth.

    
Time: 9am-5pm 
    
Free Admission.
    
Registration Required. For registration,please visit www.dabei.org.sg  or call 6298 3343
    
Venue: Tai Pei Buddhist Centre
    
No.2 Lavender Street (Near Lavender MRT Station) 

    
How to get there,Click [HERE]

    
Biography of Venerable Jing Yin

    
Venerable Jing Yin, MA in Buddhist Studies, MPhil in Chinese Buddhist Studies 
(Kelaniya), PhD in Buddhist Studies (SOAS, London); President, the Buddhist 
Education Foundation (UK) Limited, London; Acting Director of Centre of Buddhist 
Studies, Hong Kong University; Lecturer of Hong Kong University; Member of the
board of directors, Polin Monastery, Hong Kong;Vice president, Sangha Institute 
of Hong Kong; Member of standing committee of the Buddhist Association of China, 
Beijing; Deputy-director, Jiezhuang Buddhist Research Institute,Jiangsu Province; 
Director, Gaoming Monastery, Yangzhou.

    

Venerable Jing Yin is the author of following books: 
    
1. Buddhism for Key Stage 1 (UK); 
    
2. Buddhism for Key Stage 2 (UK); 
    
3. The Social Significance of Five Precepts 
in Modern Times (Vols. 1-3) (HK); 
    
4. Chief-editor of the Concise Chinese Tripitaka with Punctuation Marks; 
    
5 .Member of Editorial Board, Buddhism and Life Series (HK).
    
Venerable Jing Yin is interested in Vinaya, Theravada and Humanistic Buddhism. 

    • 

    Aug 15
    to
    Oct 19    		Buddhist Library , The
    Zen talk and retreat by Dennis Duermeier

    

Backed by popular demand, the Buddhist Library is inviting Professor Y.
Karunadasa, Professor Emeritus of Pali and Buddhist Studies at Kelaniya
University, to come back for an extended stay with us - and he has kindly
agreed. Starting mid-August, Professor Karunadasa will do two courses at
the Library:

    

a) BUDDHIST ETHICS

    

The course will be primarily based on the Pali Suttas in order to gain an
insight into early Buddhist teachings relating to ethics, that is, the
theory and practice of Buddhist moral life. The course will begin with a
clarification of the Buddhist view of reality, which is based on the
Middle Doctrine (majjhima desana) and its relationship to Buddhist ethics,
which is based on the Middle Path (majjhima patipada). This will be
followed up with a discussion of the following topics: Buddhist critique
of pre-Buddhist moral theories; the psychological foundation of Buddhist
ethics; criteria of moral evaluation; the distinction between one's own
good and the good of others; degrees of moral wholesomeness; practice of
the Buddhist moral life; Noble Eightfold Path as the foundation of
Buddhist morality; ethics of family life and inter-personal relations;
moral life and economics; moral life and politics; the final goal of
Buddhist moral life; Nibbana as the highest level of moral perfection.

    

Date: Every Friday starting 15 Aug 2003
    
Duration: 10 Fridays
    
Venue: The Buddhist Library
    
Time: 7.30pm
    
Fees: $100 (public), $80 (member)

    


b) A GUIDE TO PALI SUTTAS

    

The course will begin with an introduction to the Pali Sutta Pitaka with
its division into five Nikayas, and the problems pertaining to the
authenticity of the Khuddaka Nikaya. The course will serve as a general
guide to the contents of the suttas, particularly of the Digha Nikaya and
the Majjhima Nikaya. The course takes the position that the Pali suttas
provide not only the text but also the context for a proper interpretation
of Buddhist teachings. Accordingly an integral part of the course will be
a critical discussion of the criteria and guidelines laid down in the
suttas themselves for interpreting the teachings embodied in them. In this
regard special attention will be focused on the Buddha's well-known
statement as to the specific framework within which his teachings assume
significance, the distinction drawn between discouses whose meaning is
drawn out (nitattha) and those whose meaning has to be drawn out
(neyyattha), and the Buddha's statement as to the restatability of his
teachings in different ways (pariyaya-desana).

    

Date: Every Sunday starting 17 Aug 2003
    
Duration: 10 Sundays
    
Venue: The Buddhist Library
    
Time: 2pm
    
Fees: $100 (public), $80 (member)

    
Both courses are limited to 60 participants each.

    
Please call the Buddhist Library at 67468435 if you have any queries. The Buddhist Library is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 12pm to 9pm and
on Sundays from 10am to 9pm. We are closed on Mondays.


    All are welcome
    

    Aug 22
    to
    Aug 24    		Whispering Hearts Family Service Centre 

    Lights of Hope

    


This year, the lighting of the lotus candles @ S$10 per candle for 3 days 2 nights will be from 22 to 24 August 2003. The proceeds will be used to fund the internal furnishings of the Monastery building. 

    
This event will give you an opportunity to express your filial piety to your parents and ancestors as well as to dedicate merits, good health, happiness and success to your loved ones.

    
We have had received your generous support in the last 2 years and once again, we kindly appeal to you for your strong support for this year’s event.

    
Location: Leong Hwa Monastery, 67, Shrewbury Road, S(307834). Tel: 62533532, 62531423

    
Whispering Hearts Family Service Centre 
    
Blk 646, Jurong West Street 61, #01-142, S(640646)
    
Tel: 67951008
    
http://www.viriya.org.sg


    All are welcome
    


    Aug 26Buddhist Fellowship 
    Meditation & Dhamma: To Overcome Depression & Loneliness

    


    
By Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso 
    
Topic: Meditation & Dhamma: To Overcome Depression & Loneliness 
    
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 
    
 Time: 7 pm 
    
Venue: Tai Pei Buddhist Centre 

    


    All are welcome