Ajahn Brahm Visit to ULU (Highlight Event of the Year)
Thank you Ajahn for coming to this event and thank you everyone who has attended this tonight. It was a very great talk. With his great sense of humour, the talk carried a tone of light-heartedness and yet the Dhamma he expounded was very practical and insightful.
Thank for all the hard work that the committee members and everyone who has helped out to make this talk possible as well. The good kamma accumulated from the spread of the Dhamma is endless.
To follow up a bit, I have included a few links for you explore Ajahn’s teachings a bit further.
Ajahn’s PodCasts here, they can be downloaded as feeds, from iTune, or can be downloaded as individual mp3s. It is something quite good to put on your iPod or your mp3 player:
http://www.bswa.org/audio/podcast/AjahnBrahm.rss.php
It seems that the following 3 books are all that Amazon UK have, take a look:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-Bliss-Beyond-Meditators-Handbook/dp/0861712757/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369002&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Ordered-This-Truckload-Dung/dp/0861712781/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369002&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Opening-Door-Your-Heart-Happiness/dp/0734406525/ref=sr_1_1/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369071&sr=8-1
There are quite a few videos of Dhamma talks by Ajahn on YouTube as well, I also invite you to take a look, they have good ratings in general:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ajahn+brahm+&search=Search
I hope that this will keep your Dhamma exploration going. Your comments to this post is warmly welcomed.
Metta,
Benson Hoi
Webmaster of ULUBUDA
Date: 23rd April
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Room 3E, 3/f, ulu
Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on August 7, 1951. Currently Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual Patron of the Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore, and Spiritual Patron of the Bodhikusuma Centre in Sydney.
For more information, see Wikipedia: Ajahn Brahm
A few facts:
- Ajahn Brahm has played a very important role in creating an order of nuns in the Theravada tradition
Ajahn Brahm has also been influential in establishing Dhammasara Nuns’ Monastery at Gidgegannup in the hills north-east of Perth to be a wholly independent monastery, where the Sri Lankan trained, Australian nun Ajahn Sr. Vayama is currently abbot. - His books: Ajahn Brahm is the author of Opening the Door of Your Heart: And Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness (later published as Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life’s Difficulties) and Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook.
In shourt, Ajahn Brahm is a very attained and renowned Theravada monk. This is an event that we all should not miss. His Pod-Casts are very well-received and his Dharma talks and activities have touched and helped the lives of many people and will continue. This is a very rare opportunity that we have the pleasure to have him visit ULU.With Metta,
Benson Hoi and the ULUBUDA committee
Hello, do I need to RSVP for this event or is it turn up on the night? Thanks
I not only highly recommend this talk, I would also like to recommend this amazing book by Ajahn Brahm titled ‘Mindfulness, Bliss, and beyond’. This book is for both beginners and experienced meditators. Eloquently styled and explained, this book is an excellent guide for those who would like something different from most of the meditation methods they have learnt.
Happy reading!
p.s. I am grateful to Ping who has given me this book as a main course for my easter holiday, leaving all my law books aside for a while..
RSVP(ing) is the best idea as the spaces may run out. If you would like to book a place then email me on alastairgornall@hotmail.com. Feel free to bring friends too,
Al
Hi, just want to applaud the work that ULU BUDA committee has done. I am one of the founding committee of ULU BUDA and am amazed by how much you have achieved in spreading the Dhamma. The coming event by Ajahn Brahm is certainly one of the highlights! He’s a great teacher who explains the profound dhamma with humour and wit.
Thank you for organising and inviting Ajahn Brahm’s visit to ULU, here are some of the photos taken on the night, click on them to view them all:
Dear Ajahn Brahm,
I had interesting to know better about budha, but now I’m a moslem, is there any problem when I want learn bodhism..
Thanks
Ade rizki Pratama