Dedicated to
90TH Birthday Celebration of
Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita
19th March 2011 Saturday (Phagguna Punnima)
Venue : Maha Bodhi Society, gandhinagar, bengaluru
8:30 AM Puja at Sacred Bodhi Rukkha and mahabofdhi Vishwa Stupa
9:00 AM Puja at Mahabodhi Loka Shanti Buddha Vihara
9:30 AM Inauguration of the new block of
Bhagavan Buddha University of Pali and Theravada Buddhism
Centre for Higher Learning
(Funded by the Govt. of India)
Inauguration By
Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita
Founder President, Maha Bodhi Society, Bengaluru
Release of
Kannada Tipitaka Granthamale Volume I 7 Felicitation Souvnie and
Presided by
His Excellency Shri Hans Raj Bharadwaj
Governor of Karnataka
Guests of Honour
Venerable Sangha Members from India & Abroad
Venerable Phrakhrusitthiwarakhom (Nikamwaro), Wat Weluvan, Thailand
Rev. Mother Park Chung Soo, Won Buddhism, Korea
Ms. Monica Thaddey, President, Mahabodhi Metta Foundation, Switzerland
Mr. Gustav Buttner, Founder, German Buddhist Humanitarian Association (DBHV)
Mr. Phillippe DβHaeyera, President, Mahabodhi Karuna Belgium
12:30 PM : Blessings by
Bada Bhante Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita
Meals to devtees
3:00 PM Dhamma Deeksha
DHAMMAPADA FESTIVAL
Public Function
5:30 PM
Blessings by
Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita
Chief Guests
Shri M. Mallikarjuna Kharge
Honourable Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Government of India
Ms.Kumari Selja
Honourable Union Minister of Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture, Government of Karnataka
Dr.G.Parameshwar
President KPCC and Honourable MLA
Deepa Puja
8:00 PM
MAHA PARITTA PATHA
By Paritrana Sutta Pathakas of Mahamevnawa Monastery, Sri Lanka
The night-long chanting for Protection negins at 8:0 PM
And ends at 5:00 AM on the next morning
Course Programs:
LESSON 201
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.062.than.html
AN 4.62
PTS: A ii 69
Anana Sutta: Debtless
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Then Anathapindika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him: “There are these four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder partaking of sensuality. Which four? The bliss of having, the bliss of [making use of] wealth, the bliss of debtlessness, the bliss of blamelessness.
“And what is the bliss of having? There is the case where the son of a good family has wealth earned through his efforts & enterprise, amassed through the strength of his arm, and piled up through the sweat of his brow, righteous wealth righteously gained. When he thinks, ‘I have wealth earned through my efforts & enterprise, amassed through the strength of my arm, and piled up through the sweat of my brow, righteous wealth righteously gained,’ he experiences bliss, he experiences joy. This is called the bliss of having.
“And what is the bliss of [making use of] wealth? There is the case where the son of a good family, using the wealth earned through his efforts & enterprise, amassed through the strength of his arm, and piled up through the sweat of his brow, righteous wealth righteously gained, partakes of his wealth and makes merit. When he thinks, ‘Using the wealth earned through my efforts & enterprise, amassed through the strength of my arm, and piled up through the sweat of my brow, righteous wealth righteously gained, I partake of wealth and make merit,’ he experiences bliss, he experiences joy. This is called the bliss of [making use of] wealth.
“And what is the bliss of debtlessness? There is the case where the son of a good family owes no debt, great or small, to anyone at all. When he thinks, ‘I owe no debt, great or small, to anyone at all,’ he experiences bliss, he experiences joy. This is called the bliss of debtlessness.
“And what is the bliss of blamelessness? There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones is endowed with blameless bodily kamma, blameless verbal kamma, blameless mental kamma. When he thinks, ‘I am endowed with blameless bodily kamma, blameless verbal kamma, blameless mental kamma,’ he experiences bliss, he experiences joy. This is called the bliss of blamelessness.
“These are the four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder partaking of sensuality.”
Knowing the bliss of debtlessness,
& recollecting the bliss of having,
enjoying the bliss of wealth, the mortal
then sees clearly with discernment.
Seeing clearly β the wise one β
he knows both sides:
that these are not worth one sixteenth-sixteenth
of the bliss of blamelessness.
Awakeness Practices
All 84,000 Khandas As Found in the Pali Suttas
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Traditionally the are 84,000 Dharma Doors - 84,000 ways to get Awakeness. Maybe so; certainly the Buddha taught a large number of practices that lead to Awakeness. This web page attempts to catalogue those found in the Pali Suttas (DN, MN, SN, AN, Ud & Sn 1). There are 3 sections: |
The discourses of Buddha are divided into 84,000, as to separate addresses. The division includes all that was spoken by Buddha.βI received from Buddha,β said Ananda, β82,000 Khandas, and from the priests 2000; these are 84,000 Khandas maintained by me.β They are divided into 275,250, as to the stanzas of the original text, and into 361,550, as to the stanzas of the commentary. All the discourses including both those of Buddha and those of the commentator, are divided into 2,547 banawaras, containing 737,000 stanzas, and 29,368,000 separate letters.
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