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by Cittasamvaro

Visiting Vipassana teacher Ajahn Pannyavaro will give a dhamma talk at the DMG ’Reuan Tham’ Sala, Amarin Tower, on Thursday 13th May. Talk will be in English. Details:

Thursday 13th May

‘Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional’

Dhamma Talk by Visiting Vipassana teacher

Venerable Pannyavaro

Amarin Tower, Chit Lom

6:30 – 8:15 pm

Topic:

The whole event will be conducted in English only

We will all experience pain in greater or lesser ways. Does this have to translate into mental suffering? In Theravada this is often called ‘The Second Arrow’ – the sutta story says a man shot with an arrow would be unwise to take a second arrow and pierce himself with it. This speaks of our human tendency to create extra suffering out of the inevitable pain that will afflict us at different times.

Ajahn Pannyavaro will talk on this subject from the pragmatic aspect of the meditator. How can pain and suffering be related to in meditation, and in contemplation of daily life? And how does one learn from pain and trials, and grow from them?

Speaker:

about Ven. Pannyavaro . . .

Venerable Pannyavaro is an Australian Buddhist monk, ordained for 30 years, who has devoted his life to the meditational aspects of the Buddha’s teachings. During his meditation training he practiced under several meditation masters in Sri Lanka and Burma including Venerable Sayadaw U Janaka of Chanmyay Meditation Centre, Rangoon, who is the foremost disciple of the renowned Burmese meditation master, the late Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw.

Pannyavaro was involved in the beginnings of a number of the very early Buddhist communities in Australia. He later received full ordination at Wat Borvornivet in Bangkok under Venerable Phra Nyanasamvarva, the Sangha Raja of Thailand.

For the past thirty years, he has studied and practiced meditation in most of the major Theravada Buddhist countries, including long periods of intensive practise of Satipatthana-Vipassana meditation at the Mahasi Sayadaw centres in Burma.

As a Western meditation teacher, Ven. Pannyavaro naturally empathizes with the concerns and needs of meditators in their own culture. His long training and life experience combine to bring a practical in-depth approach to the teaching of insight (vipassana)meditation in contemporary life.

Pannyavaro was the resident teacher with the Buddha Dharma Education Association Centre, Sydney and gives retreats from time to time at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath. Most recently he has set up Bodhi Tree monastery and retreat centre in Eastern Australia: http://www.buddhanet.net/bodhi-tree/

He is perhaps best known however for setting up and maintaining probably the internet’s most comprehensive resource on Buddhism : www.buddhanet.net

Schedule:

6:30 gather at the ‘Reuan Tham’ Sala, Amarin Tower

7:00 Dhamma talk

7:45 Q&A

8:15 (ish) finish – we are not including a meditation session, since we already have meditation every Monday!

There is no need for advance registration, and the event is free of charge. Donations can be made to Ajahn Pannyavaro’s temple and Buddhanet.net project.

Location:

Most of you should know this venue already, since there are a lot of very good Dhamma activities going on here. We return to this venue quite often, so it is worth getting familiar with it. It is an excellent facility, cool and quiet. Use of the Hall is kindly provided by Khun Danai and DMG Publications.

The address is Amarin Plaza, Level 22, 496-502 Ploenchit Road, Lumpini, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330

Get out at Chit Lom Skytrain Station, and walk or take the lift (‘elevator’ to Americans) down to the ground floor of the Amarin Tower. From the ground floor, take the lift up to the 22nd floor. DMG is on the right hand side on the 22nd floor, and there is a nice coffee shop there, so you can arrive early for events and meet some of the regulars.

You cannot get up to the 22nd floor via the lift in the Amarin plaza itself. You must go to the lifts on the ground floor, to access the office block above the Amarin Plaza.

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