Re: the WAM - Sending Metta and Good Wishes

[Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni]

 
Dear Sangha friends,
 
I would like to share the message below with you, for those of you who are interested and have been and are compassionately concerned regarding recent events in the international Thai forest Sangha of Ajahn Chah. 
 
I am very much in support of the substantial, even tremendous benefit that there may be in many people joining together in sending thoughts of loving kindness, compassion, appreciation and equanimity (peace and balance) to our many teachers and friends who will be gathering together for the tradition's World Abbots' Meeting (WAM) in Thailand from December 7th thru 9th. 
 
The radiating and directing or "sending' of such metta, and all of the Brahma Viharas, together with concentrated good wishes for all of our wellbeing, happiness and peacefulness is a very powerful practice, especially when done by those who have developed the power of concentration through meditation.  When this is done together, even in disparate places, it becomes all the more powerful. 
 
Such sending of metta should be both internally and externally directly, and can be greatly beneficial to oneself and others.
 
As is mentioned below, the time of the convocation of the Meeting on December 7th in Thailand is our Sunday, December 6th, early in the afternoon.
 
If you would, please be mindful of the time as suggested below, and even, whenever you can, return to this practice during the 3 days following.  This is good to do by stopping, being deliberately intent, conscious and mindful, and then sending your supportive good wishes, with love, compassion and appreciation in heart.  You may additionally think of these good intents:
 
* the longterm peace, happiness, welfare and wellbeing of all involved - including their liberation from all suffering
 
* the welfare of the rightness of the Buddhadhamma and Buddha Sasana in the modern and future world - including keeping true to the Buddha's intent above
 
* the good intentions mentioned in the letter from Thanissara below
 
 
 
In peace and kindness,
 
with the wish for all of our welfare,
wellbeing, happiness
and freedom from suffering,
 
Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni
 
---
 
 

From: "thanissara" <thanissara@dharmagiri.org>

 

An Update:

 

Recent events within the Forest Sangha of Ajahn Chah -- catalyzed by the Bhikkhuni ordinations in Western Australia, the expulsion of Ajahn Brahm from the samvasa (community) the delisting of Wat Bodhinyana and the 5 point legislation imposed on the UK based Siladhara -- has generated a concerned response from the international 4-fold sangha to the question of the placement of nuns within Theravada.

 

This response has been collated and is to be presented to:

The World Abbots Meeting (WAM) on the 7th December and the wider monastic community and to the English Sangha Trust.

The team that has put this together aims to make this material public (appropriate to permission given by authors) and will notify when available.

 

Engaging a collective response with a heart of Metta:

 

Leading up to the World Abbots Meeting at Wat Pa Pong on 7-9th December, we encourage an international metta meditation to support an atmosphere of compassion within the meeting

 

To participate - please join a 10 min Metta Meditation at 2pm your time - sending a wave of metta round the globe in support of compassion during the WAM

 

2pm your time Sunday 6th Dec - take 10 minutes out and hold with metta:

 

every monastic participant in the recent bhikkhuni ordination
all future and past bhikkhunis and Buddhist nuns
all involved in this issue, whatever side
the buddhist society of western australia
all participating in the WAM
the sangha elders of Thailand, the UK siladharas
ourselves

 

may all beings be free from harm
may all beings be well
may all beings realize nibbana