What with me moving back to Ontario next spring, I thought it would be useful to have a place to keep information about our activities in Canada, and so yet another Sirimangalo.org subdomain. http://canada.sirimangalo.org/ will be the home of our organization in Canada, providing local information about our activities in…
Latest chapter in the book is “finished”. That might be the last, though I would like to edit at least one more before Thailand. http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/lessons-in-practical-buddhism/simple-truth/ At this point, I’d like to invite anyone who would like to do some grammar editing on any of the chapters to go ahead with…
Really impressed by this, and honoured to present my How To Meditate booklet in Traditional Chinese for download: http://static.sirimangalo.org/howto/chinese.epub http://static.sirimangalo.org/howto/chinese.pdf Credit for the translation goes to Tina Chen, who also pointed out several errors in the English version. Much merit to her, may it be of great benefit!
Tonight is the time for our regularly scheduled Q&A session on YouTube. Not happening. No particular reason comes to mind, but that the impetus to broadcast has disappeared from the mind. Some interesting thoughts; first, about deciding on a place to live… is Sri Lanka the right place? Really like…
So goes the universe. Expansions and contractions here, Mae Chii Jai is coming back, as is Sumana, the ex-novice from Thailand, to ordain again. Our new well is progressing nicely, we’ve been using it for a couple of weeks already, the water was tested and is fit for human consumption.…
Everybody left, and then three new meditators came. So, now we have me, Pauli from Finland, Harish from USA, and Peter from Canada. Pauli will finish his first course tomorrow, Peter and Harish are just slogging through the beginning stages; everyone has expressed the shock at how different it is…
Latest rough-draft chapter of the book is complete: http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/lessons-in-practical-buddhism/experience-of-reality/ as with the others, it’s just a rough draft conversion from the video transcript, still has to be edited and refined, but I think it is still useful information. All finished chapters are (and all subsequent chapters will be) available here:…
Can’t remember when the last update was, the title is kind of a joke… Back in Sri Lanka. All is well. The worst news is some ferocious termites ate through the plastic floor of my mosquito tent and started trimming the fat off of some of the books I’d securely…
When the world around you seems bleak and lifeless, do not give up what is good and true; a flower in a wasteland is all the more beautiful in comparison.
The best way to live is without ever putting down an anchor anywhere at any time. Then the whole of reality is your ocean, over which your voyage can finally posses real and universal meaning. It is the anchors we put down that limit us to space, time, and circumstance.…
