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Date: Febuary 14, 2010 (Sunday) 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Place: Great Buddha Hall
10:00 am, Repentance Ceremony & Grand Offering to the Buddha
1:30 pm, Mangala Sutta Chanting & Auspiciousness Thread Blessing
Chuang Yen Monastery is going to hold its 2010 Chinese New Year Ceremony on February 14, 2010,the New Year day in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. We sincerely invite you to participate in this auspicious event to receive its blessings. There will be chanting services in the morning and in the afternoon headed by our abbot. After the afternoon service the monastics will tie the Auspiciousness Thread for all participants. You may also take this opportunity to offer lights to the Buddha or offer meals.
Date: March 27 (Saturday)- April 6 (Tuesday), 2010
Four Immeasurables (Four Sublime Abidings) Meditation, a kind of Samatha, is a (concentration) technique practiced in early Buddhism, aimed at training the mind to remove one's resentment while enlightening loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. It is not only a practical way to govern one's anger, jealous, malicious, and meddling mind, but also a great dharma way to open one's happiness in life. It can be regard as a profound foundation for all the meditation practice.
Mahasi vipassana, is regarded as a Pure Insight meditation technique. One of the foremost meditation methods from Myanmar, it is highly emphasized on developing insights and wisdom for one¡¦s own body and mind through vigorous contemplating and comprehending the impermanence, suffering (dhukka), emptiness, and non-self. Through observing objects of four elements, one would see the truth with wisdom.
Date: April 4, 2010 (Sunday) 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
Place: Great Buddha Hall
Program: Chanting "The Sutra of the Past Vows of the Earth Store Bodhisattva"
Qing Ming, which means "clear and bright" in Chinese, is both the fifth term in the traditional lunar calendar and a memorial ceremony for the dead. We invite you to join in this special practice out of gratitude to your ancestors and also for your own benefit.
Date: October 29 (Friday)- Novomber 27 (Saturday), 2010
Venerable Dhammadipa, a distinguished monk and meditation teacher of Czech nationality, is accepting our invitation again this year to conduct an intensive four-week program of meditation extending from October 29th to November 27th. The program is open to monks, nuns, and lay people, both male and female. There will be regular Dharma talks and interviews with the teacher and his assistants. The course is divided into four one-week sessions. Applicants are encouraged to apply for the full four weeks, but those who cannot stay for the full period may attend one or more one-week sessions.
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