So, we have high-speed Internet again… uploading videos now, starting with a short tour of our new monastery. We also have an album up on Google+ with photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/118014954414967440482/albums/5853513363142404497 Monk Radio will start again this Saturday at 22:00 UTC; visit http://radio.sirimangalo.org/ to participate. I’ve almost finished re-editing my How To…
Borrowing an Internet SIM card to type this; Internet people coming tomorrow, should be up in a day or two. In the meantime, just wanted to say that the inauguration of our new monastery went off without a hitch; someone counted over 60 people. It was a great start and…
“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…
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.…
So, things are coming together in keeping the organization running; there is some coordination going on between the non-profit and the monastery, which should see the monastery regain its ability to finance the meditation centre. A budget is now up at the Org.Sirimangalo site, for anyone who is interested, though…
Recently I heard that abominable phrase, “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”, turned into an equally abominable internet acronym. Yep, TANSTAAFL. It’s not so simple, really, to answer the question whether there is such thing as a free lunch in an ultimate sense. Even when we give…
Over the past year, something quite wonderful has grown out of the craziness of this life on Earth. The website I originally set up on behalf of my teacher while still living in Chiang Mai, Thailand has in this short time become something quite remarkable. Sure, it has evolved many…
So, in preparation for the book project, I thought to find a way to organize the questions and answers on our ask forum into a single file. The result is an actual e-book made up of the best answers to all the questions on the site, and can be downloaded…
Yep, it’s a year again. Some newness for us, though, worth mentioning… First, we’re on a new server now; it’s still a bit unstable, not sure why, but we’re now running a 64-bit operating system, which should help with memory issues (live streaming, for example). Also, our monastery site has…
