Volunteer Opportunities - Re: Benefit for the Dhammadharini Sangha: "Intention and the Power of Thought": A Day of Meditation and Dhamma Teachings offered by Shaila Catherine - May 18

[Dhammadharini]

 Volunteer Opportunities

       Publicity + Set Up

May 18 Benefit for Dhammadharini Sangha "Intention and the Power of Thought" 

A Day of Meditation and Dhamma Teachings offered by Shaila Catherine 

at Wat Buddhanusorn

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Friends,

Love to volunteer and offer your service in support of our Bhikkhuni Sangha and such a wonderful event?  Near or far -- in the cloud or on the ground -- here are opportunities for you:

    Helpful Hearts and Hands See Below 

=>> Publicity Person (web-based/distance opportunity) 

needed immediately

to send press releases to local media and be sure local Dhamma & meditation groups have the announcement and will share flyers with their groups

(for helpful hints and ideas, and to let us know your doing it -- reply to inte...@imsb.org)

=>> Set Up Help (your presence - on the ground)

on day of event

arrive between 8:30 and 9 am to help set up

or stay till 6 pm to help clean up

(just show up or ease hearts by letting organizers know you'll be there! --> inte...@imsb.org)

Thanks!!

Love & Metta to All

Be good. Be happy. No suffering that's not absolutely necessary.

Reply to Shari or Shirley at inte...@imsb.org

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From: Dhammadharini <dhamma...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:40 PM
Subject: Flyers - Re: [dhammadharini] Benefit for the Dhammadharini Sangha: "Intention and the Power of Thought": A Day of Meditation and Dhamma Teachings offered by Shaila Catherine - May 18
To: Dhammadharini Google Group post <dhamma...@googlegroups.com>

Friends, 

English-language and Thai-language PDFs of the retreat flyer are attached here.  

Welcome to download, share with friends and family, and post and share at your local meditation groups, Buddhist temples and Dhamma Centers ~ and get the word out! 

--- On Sat, 3/30/13, Dhammadharini <dhamma...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dhammadharini <dhamma...@gmail.com> Subject: [dhammadharini] Benefit for the Dhammadharini Sangha: "Intention and the Power of Thought": A Day of Meditation and Dhamma Teachings offered by Shaila Catherine - May 18 To: dhamma...@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013, 2:10 PM Benefit view this email on the web Intention and the Power of Thought: A Day of Meditation and Dhamma Teachings with Shaila Catherine A Benefit for the Dhammadharini Women's Monastic Community Sponsored by Wat Buddhanusorn | watbuddha.org Insight Meditation South Bay | imsb.org and Friends of Dhammadharini | dhammadharini.net Wat Buddhanusorn Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:30 am - 5:00 pm at Wat Buddhanusorn, 36054 Niles Blvd.,  Fremont, CA 94536 Participants are welcome to bring food dishes to offer to the monastic community, and share in the community meal. INTENTION IS A POWERFUL FORCE underlying experiences of both suffering and joy. Our intentions affect decision-making, communications, relationship dynamics, psychological perspectives, meditative development, kammic tendencies, and our moment-to-moment encounter with life. Intention determines our actions; intention affects what we will become. The Buddha's teachings offer practical instructions for working with thought, freeing the mind from patterns that perpetuate suffering, and cultivating intentions that will lead to deep happiness. In this day long program, we will explore the practical and liberating teachings of the Buddha, learning to use thought skillfully, rather than be overwhelmed by opinions, judgments, or conditioned mental patterns. THIS DAY-LONG RETREAT IS A GIFT OF THE HEART from Shaila Catherine to our Buddhist Women’s monastic community. The day will include periods of sitting and walking meditation, Dhamma teachings, and a special blessing and almsmeal dana offering to the monastic community. DHAMMADHARINI MEANS "WOMEN UPHOLDING THE DHAMMA" — Dhammadharini Sangha, founded by Ayya Tathaaloka Theri, is the first women’s monastic sangha in the Theravadin Forest tradition established in North America, and one of the few places where women can train and fully ordain. Monastic residences at the Peace Pagoda in Fremont and the Aranya Bodhi Awakening Forest Hermitage on the Sonoma Coast are led by fully-ordained female monastics, or bhikkhunis (the male form is the bhikkhu) who observe the type of monastic life and ordination established for women and men by the Buddha more than 2500 years ago. SHAILA CATHERINE has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught since 1996 in the USA, and internationally. Shaila has dedicated several years to studying with masters in India, Nepal and Thailand, completed a one year intensive meditation retreat with the focus on concentration and jhana, and authored Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity. Shaila Catherine has practiced under the guidance of Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw since 2006; she authored Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana to help make this traditional approach to meditative training accessible to western practitioners. She is the founder of Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley (www.imsb.org). REGISTRATION/DANA: There is no registration fee. This is a pure dana-based retreat. The word "dana"means generosity, and simply translates into a heartfelt donation.  Your offerings will be used by the Dhammadharini support foundation to support the renascent mendicant Buddhist women's monastic community at Aranya Bodhi Awakening Forest Hermitage on the Sonoma Coast and presence in the Bay Area. WHAT TO BRING: Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you wish to meditate sitting on the floor, a shawl or blanket, a food dish to share, and dana that you might wish to offer. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION :  contact Shari Gent or Shirley Kwok at inte...@imsb.org --

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Dhammadharini

"Women Upholding the Dhamma"

PO Box 1671, Fremont, CA 94538

(please post donations to this address)

Aranya Bodhi Hermitage, Sonoma Coast

Email: awakeni...@gmail.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 16, Jenner, CA 95450, USA

New Message Phone: 1-707-340-4281, Skype "Aranya_Bodhi"

 

The Bodhi House, San Francisco East Bay

now closed ~ new monastery/vihara coming

Kathina Season East Bay Temporary Monastic Residence

@ the Peace Pagoda on 2nd Street in Historic Oldtown Niles

Fremont, CA 94536