Monastics Away from Bodhi House for Vassa Retreat

[The Bodhi House]

Monastics Away From Bodhi House

During Three Month Vassatime Retreat

End of July thru End of October, 2010

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Dear friends,

 

The monastics of our community who have been resident at our Bodhi House for much of the last year will be away at our Sonoma Coast hermitage, Aranya Bodhi, for the next 3 months. 

 

The Bodhi House will be quiet during this time, with no monastics in residence.  Please do not bring or drop off fresh or highly perishable food dana at the Bodhi House from August through October.

 

Dear friend and Bodhi House owner, Liz Crisp, will remain at the Bodhi House.  If you would like to bring useful supplies for the hermitage, let her know.  Please phone her before coming by, as she is not always home. Her phone number is below. If you can't reach her, please leave a phone message, and drop the things that you have brought with a note attached in front of the Bodhi House front door. 

 

After the monastics' 3-month vassatime retreat, we plan for the Bodhi House to continue to be the Aranya Bodhi Hermitage's in the Bay annex.  Hermitage women monastics may return to the Bodhi House for 2 or 3 days once or twice per month.  These days here will be announced through our Dhammadharini Googlegroup, together with opportunities for offering dana, meditating together, listening to Dhamma and getting personal practice advice, as well as for possible special programs and Dhamma teachings in the Bay Area.

 

In the meantime, we hope that you will enjoy and benefit greatly from the Dhamma teachings and meditation programs at these other local Buddhist monasteries, temples, meditation groups and Dhamma centers, together with your own practice.

 

Here are a few:

 

Wat Buddhanusorn Thai Temple, Buddhi Vihara Sri Lankan Temple, Kusalakari Burmese Temple, Mettananda Vihara, Tathagatha Meditation Center, Vipassana San Jose, Insight Meditation South Bay, Insight Meditation Center Redwood City, Spirit Rock Meditation Center

If you need to reach any of our monastics who will be on retreat at the hermitage in urgency, please email to awakeni...@gmail.com.  The hermitage has no phone, but the Awakening Forest email will be checked daily by someone, providing there is enought sunshine for the solar powered satellite internet to operate.

 

We hope you have an excellent three months during this traditional Buddhist Vassa-season monastic retreat time.  Our monastics at the hermitage will be wishing you well, together with all beings, every day during their retreat.  Let's wish them well too. 

 

 

With abundant metta,

 

Your friends at the Bodhi House

(soon mostly, very happily, to be on retreat)

 

 

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* The Bodhi House

4196 Bidwell Drive, Fremont, CA 94538, USA

Bodhi House Office Tel: 1-510-683-9608 (No Answer During Vassa)

* Bodhi House owner Liz Crisp

Email: lizc...@comcast.net, Home phone: 1-510-651-5837