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The Origin of the Pali Canon
RETREAT FOR MONKS
(From 20th June to 1st July 2014)
THE TEACHINGS OF THE AWAKENEND ONE WITH AWARENESS ARE
EVER HAPPY, WELL, SECURE, CALM , QUIET, ALERT, ATTENTIVE,
HAVE EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
Location: Cetana Vana, (Narasipura village, Dasanapura Hobli, Alur), Bangalore
Objective: To run a Center for
1. Meditation practice for monks and lay people
2. Dhammacari Training Program -to train community and rural leaders and educators
3. Moral and Spiritual Education & Training Center
RETREAT FOR MONKS
(From 20th June to 1st July 2014)
Organised at Mahabodhi Meditation Centre
( In association with Vipassana Meditation Centre, Dhamma Paphulla, Bangalore)
About the Program
Dear Venerable monks and dhamma friends,
We are conducting a ten days Vipassana Meditation Course
exclusively for Buddhist monks from 0th June to 1st July 2014 at our
newly bulit Ghammaduta Vihara Meditation Centre locate at
Natasipura near Alur in the outskirt of the city in Bangalore North. .
Free from noise and pollution of the city the place is very serene and
positive energy which is good for intensive meditation practice. We
have a Buddha Vihara, Meditation Hall and dining facility in our
centre and good accommodation with individual bath attached
rooms. This course will be exclusively for the monks.
Importance of Mediatation:
The aim of monastic life is to get awakenment and liberation from
all sufferings and to teach the Dhamma to others. Mediatation is
the only path to Nibbana as Lord Buddha emphasises in the
Satipatthana Sutta. Nowadays monks are busy engaged in Vihara
activities and it is sometimes difficult to find time for proper practice
of meditation. This course will help them to learn mediatation
technique properly and also to teach to others. In modern times people
are caught up in countless fears, stress, tension, depression, hatred,
etc. They look at monks for guidance and solutions. Monks, if they
are well trained, they could help immensely the humanity to
overcome all negativities and to live peacefully.
What is Vipassana Meditation:
Vipassana (Pali) in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true
nature of reality. This is non-sectarian technique aims for the total
eradication of mental impurities and brings highest happiness of full
liberation. Healing, not merely the curing of diseases, but the
essential healing of human suffering is its purpose.
Vipassana was discovered by Gotama the Buddha more trhan 2600
years ago. The word Vipassana means seeing things as the really
are. It is the process of self-purification by self-observation.
One begins by observing the natural breath to concentrate the mind.
With a sharpened awareness one proceeds to observe the changing
nature of body and mind and experience the universal truths of
impermanence, suffering and egolessness. This truth-realised by
direct experience is the process of purification. The entire path
(Dhamma) is a universal remedy for universal problems and has
nothing to do with any religion or sectarianism. For this reason, it
can be freely practiced by everyone, at any time, in any place, without
conflict due to race, community or religion, and will prove equally
beneficial to one and all.
Program Notification:
* Number of available seats is 45 members.
* Last date of enrollment is 15th of June 2014.
* Travelling expenses to be met by candidates on their own.
* After the registration, if due to som e or other reason you
cannot participate, please do inform the management before
19th of June.
* Reporting tim, 2PM on 20th June 2014.
Interested candidates can register their names for the course by filling
the application form attached herewith and send to us by email or by
post before 15th June 2014.
For further details please contact:
Maha Bodhi Society Mahabodhi Mediatation Centre
# 14 Kalidasa Road Dhammaduta Vihara
Gandhinagar Narasipura Village Matthahalli P.O.
Email: info@mahabodhi.info Alur Road, Dananapura Hobli
Website: www.mahabodhi.info Bangalore North -562123
Mobile : 07676073018 Contact : Venerable Buddhadatta
Mobile: 07676073018
Email: buddhadatta21@gmail.com
ALL SENTIENT AND NON SENTIENT BEINGS RESEARCHING AND PRACTICING
THE TEACHINGS OF THE AWAKENEND ONE WITH AWARENESS ARE
EVER HAPPY, WELL, SECURE, CALM , QUIET, ALERT, ATTENTIVE,
HAVE EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
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Tipitaka Chanting Ceremony - Sri Dalada Maligawa - Kandy 7:23:28hrs
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Tipitaka Chanting Ceremony - Sri Dalada Maligawa (2nd Day)8:19:23 Hrs Streamed live on Dec 21, 2013
Tipitaka Chanting ceremony organized by the International Tipitaka
organization will have the chanting this time at the historic audience
hall of the Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy. Tipitaka chanting ceremony had
been held in India on several occasions and this chanting is held in Sri
lanka for the 3rd time.
Tipitaka chanting ceremony was held at
Anuradhapura at the premises of the Sacred Bo Tree in the year 2011 and
this chanting is performed in this time at the Audience hall of Sri
Dalada Maligawa for the 3rd time. Local and foreign Bikkus will
participate to chant 30 Nos. selected Sutta followed by a discussion at
the end of each Sutta.
With advice of and guidance of the Most
Venerable Nayaka Theros of Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters Honorable
Diyawadana Nilame has extended his assistance and corporation for
Tipitaka chanting. The Organizing Committee heartily welcomes all
Buddhists to participate at this Tipitaka chanting ceremony on 20th 21st
and 22nd December 2013.
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Pali Recitation from Pali Tipitaka (Audio) 2007 2:17mins Bojjhanga :
Pali
Recitation from Pali Tipitaka (Audio) 2007.
Bojjhanga : Pali
Recitation from the Pali Tipitaka (Audio) This Dhamma Society production
is part of of the multimedia and teaching tools for Tipitaka Studies in
Roman script. This Pali-language passage is taken from the
International Council manuscript B.E. 2500 (1956), or the World Tipitaka
Edition in Roman script, first published by the Dhamma Society in 2005.
Recited and translated in to Thai Language by Pali & Tipitaka
Master Siri Petchai, Chairman of the M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma
Society Fund under the Patronage of His Holiness the Supreme Patriarch
of Thailand. Produced by Tipitaka patrons and volunteers.
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should be carefully noted and compared with the
Suttas and reviewed in the light of the discipline. If they, on such
comparison and review, are found
not to conform to the Suttas or the discipline, the conclusion must
be: “Assuredly this is not the word of the Buddha, it has been wrongly
understood by
this monk”, and the matter is to be rejected. But
where on such comparison and review they are found to conform to the
Suttas or the discipline, the
conclusion must be: “Assuredly this is the word of the Buddha, it has been rightly understood by this monk.”
- DN 16 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta - The Great Passing, The Buddha’s Last Days
The
authentic teachings of Gotama the Buddha have been preserved and handed
down to us and are to be found in the Tipiṭaka. The Pāli word,
‘Tipiṭaka’,
1. The first part is known as the Vinaya Piṭaka and it contains all the rules which Buddha laid down for monks and nuns.
2. The second part is called the Suttaṅta Piṭaka and it contains the Discourses.
3. The third part is known as the Abhidhamma Piṭaka and comprises the psycho-ethical teachings of the Buddha.
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RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ON LATEST MODERN ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES, INSTRUMENTS, GADGETS
After
It had been conclusively proved to the satisfaction of the Hon’ble
Supreme Court that our country’s EVMs ARE tamperable, the country’s
Hon’ble Supreme Court has directed the country’s Election Commission to
introduce a paper backup of votes cast through electronic voting
machines, but allowed the commission to introduce it in stages during
general elections next year.Election Commission agreed in principle to
voting machines with printouts.
Last year, the Supreme Court of this country, having been convinced
of an undeniable, edible possibility of EVMs getting tampered with and
that easily hacked — even from afar — had ordered the imbecilic Election
Commission and the indolent Government to provide about 1600 crore
(1600, 0000000) rupees — convert this into your respective
currency! — for manufacturing these VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit
Trail) voting machines; which show a verifiable paper receipt to the
voter.
1) Mr.Sadasivam CJI, a brahmin who passed the order of putting
new VVAT voting machines in use in a “phased manner”, has unwittingly
shirked its duty & committed a grave error of judgment dealt a fatal
blow to the Country’s democracy who should have ordered, as a caution,
that till the time this newer set of about 1300000 voting machines is
manufactured in full and so deployed throughout the country, ballot
paper system would be brought in. No such precautionary measure was
decreed by the apex court.
2) Mr. Mohan Bagawath, a brahmin and a drop out who is not a
Constitutional expert says that there should not be any caste based
reservation which is against the Constitution that provides reservation
for SC/ST/OBCs.
3) Mr.Narendra Modi, a baniya who contested elections saying that he
belonged to Backward Caste though he belonged to the Gandhi’s upper
baniya caste and violated all the Silas such as responsible for killing
large number of human beings in 2002 Gujarat riots in the name of
religion as a result who was not given American VISA. He lied that he
was not married and became CM of Gujarat for 4 times. He looted the
Country’s wealth along with Capitalists and Industrialists and spent
crores of rupees to become the PM by way of paid news and advertisements
to almost all the media of our motherland made hay in May!
As this is a nation where intelligence of the Militant Stealth
Hindutva Cult of RSS brahmins rules in closed quarters, idiocy democracy
in the open. We make gods out of mud, then, prostrating before them, we
remain, as before, a dud. And, some times, in the name of our fancied
little god and his glory, my motherland’s favorite sons also kill each
other, with the deep ingrained vigor of all our bestial ancestry, and
like a whiff of wind are gone — dead.
Lest it becomes confusing, let’s say it as it is — we are , like
every other human being, are truly one really, really queer kin of apes.
In some fields, ahead of others and beyond compare; in other areas, we
are as silly and supercilious as a bull-hounded mare. In a nutshell, at
least in the loftier mystical and evolved spiritual circles “get” some
things well — like higher metaphysics — while failing miserably,
simplistically, in simple, elementary physics.
After all, who in one’s right mind would yet allow the use of
absolutely antiquated, completely out-dated, easily hack-able and highly
tamper-able “high school technology” based, obsolete EVMs (electronic
voting machines) in national elections, even now — in 2014?
More than 80 democracies in the world have simply done away with
them, dumping them in the trash, or simply declared the usage of this
simplistic voting system susceptible to fraud, and hence declaring the
same as illegal — as the Supreme Courts of Germany and Holland indeed
have done. Even Japan, from where EVMs originated, has long abandoned
its rogue babies, and is using paper ballot system since then. All the
advanced democracies in the West, except the most dull-headed ones, have
reverted to a voter verifiable system or the ballot paper. In Canada,
even at the ,most basic school level, ballot paper voting is in use.
Last year, the Supreme Court of this country, having been convinced
of an undeniable, edible possibility of EVMs getting tampered with and
that easily hacked — even from afar — had ordered the imbecilic Election
Commission and the indolent Government to provide about 1600 crore
(1600, 0000000) rupees — convert this into your respective
currency! — for manufacturing these VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit
Trail) voting machines; which show a verifiable paper receipt to the
voter.
This is the Fundamental Right of a citizen of any democracy, as per
the laws laid down by the Constitution. Only 20, 000 such voting
machines have been provided for the entire country in this, 2014
election! The Country has 29 states now — with Telagana being the
latest. In most of them, depending upon their size etc., either about
400 VVPAT machines are being deployed, or some such similar ridiculous
number — more or less — has been made available in the length and
breadth of the country. It’s an asinine, bland, cruel, demeaning joke we
1.25 billion jokers have been “blessed” with by the powers that be.
As to how EVMs can be hacked into, tampered with, and results
favorably manipulated via software interference and other means — from
near and from far, far away — this can easily be found by anybody by
just going to Google etc. and filling “EVM HACKING, TAMPERING” or
something to this effect in the Search. And lo, behold! a plethora of
information will just overwhelm your overly chilled-out, lesser
employed, un-billed brains.
Quite a few unscrupulous politicians and every other most
“honorable” political party worthy of its “salt”, such as Militant
Stealth Hindutva Cult RSS’s BJP with the support of Supreme Court and
Chief Election Commission surely played this comic-tragic game of
hacking into and hijacking the votes of a billion people! Thus, one who
outsmarts the other such fine folks, armed with their hacking forks in
this merry-go-around, won.
The rest — this or that “tsunami” or wave in favor of one or the
other, poll forecasts and the “newbie”, the over enthused, seeming game
changers in the making — well, they may well fall flat on their dumb
faces.
Well, crib all you want. But don’t cry, my dear countrymen. After all,
the same model of EVMs is yet very much in use in South Africa, Bangla
Desh, Bhutan, Nepal, Nigeria, Venezuela etc. These poor folks of the
said “non-techy” countries — millions of them — too cannot figure out as
to what the hell had, yet is happening, in their dear short-circuited
“developed” democracies. Nor will you.
The process of elections is the most sacrosanct duty in a Republic
which ECI should carry out with utmost diligence. Caesar’s wife should
be above suspicion. Free and fair polls should not only be ensured but
APPEAR to be ensured to the satisfaction of the voters.
India first tested EVMs in a by-election in 1982, but the machines
were first deployed on a large scale of over 1 million in a general
election in 2004.
In 2010, security researcher Hari Prasad and his
associates released a video that they said demonstrated vulnerabilities
in the EVMs, after hacking an EVM that had already been used in an
election.
Prasad and his team replaced the display board of the machine with a
look-alike component that could be instructed through a Bluetooth
connection on a mobile phone to steal a percentage of the votes in favor
of a chosen candidate. The researchers also used a pocket-size device
that could be attached to the memory of the EVM to change the votes
stored in the machine during the period between the election and the
public counting session.