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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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:…
(a.k.a. a log from overseas) Just finished our course at Chom Tong, off to Chiang Mai to tie up some loose ends, then Bangkok to get visas and do some little teaching before our trip home. The ten-day course was the best birthday gift ever; Ajaan was recovering from an…
The more things change, the more they stay the same, so the saying goes. Worth keeping in mind; in the world of sankhara, the new is ever as the old. On the other hand, this is what Buddhism attempts to address, in a sense; we strive for the unattained, a…
December has been a busy month on all fronts; after the novice ordination, there was the robe dying, robe-wearing instruction, etc. Then we started an off-line Pali class, which has been fruitful – for me at least, learning a bit more about how to teach Pali… not sure if this…
