I have to apologize for dismissing in my last post the idea that the past month has been anything but magical; in 28 days (I was reminded last night I arrived on the 9th of February) we’ve managed to establish daily and weekly programs in meditation, put together articles of…
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats I just got word this morning that negotiations are on for a new property – five bedroom house on fifteen acres of forest only thirty minutes from Winnipeg. The move-in date is…
Sorry for not posting anything here in a while (10 days!), it’s just been a bit busy in real life. First, the property thing isn’t as simple as thought; the property we decided on turns out to be too big for a residential mortgage, so either the group puts $80,000…
And you thought Buddhist monks weren’t up on internet memes. FTW – For The World. Okay, not really, but this is. Today we had a meeting of what will probably become the new board of Sirimangalo International in Canada. We agreed unanimously to go ahead with acquiring the land I…
It finally dawned on me that the word Manitoba comes from the same root as the word Manitoulin. Things are taking off in a big way here on the prairies… Friday night we had 29 people in our living room. Here’s a picture before they all got there: Yesterday we…
This is something that was almost finished in Sri Lanka, but which we never got around to using. Printing up five to use tonight as a test run – the official Sirimangalo International Chanting Book (version 0.1 beta): http://static.sirimangalo.org/pdf/chanting_sirimangalo.pdf
After spending months using a 7″ tablet to connect to the Internet (including ssh), it’s a bit of a relief to get back to a full-sized computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, etc. Should make things like blog-posting and video uploading easier 🙂 So, Winnipeg is a nice place; I’ve applied for…
Made it to Winnipeg, staying in a small house at 1046 Chevrier Blvd with one meditator, Jared from Ontario. We are staying with the support of a group of Sri Lankan families who are providing the house and covering all of our expenses. We have had a few meetings already…
Below is a copy of the latest email to our Canada mailing list – if you want to join the list, visit http://www.sirimangalo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/canada ————————————————————– Dear Friends, I have confirmation on a hotel room Friday night at Days Hotel at the following address: 240 Belfield Road Etobicoke (Ontario), M9W 1H3 Canada…
Lots of news… first, my brain seems to have rewired itself following the dengue fever, so apologies if this comes out muddled. It looks like I’ll be in Canada in January… Ajaan wants me to go quickly and set up a monastery as soon as possible. He said April is…
