Online Application
Date & Time: 11/23 (Saturday) 3:00pm -12/1 (Sunday) noon
Registration: 11/23 (Saturday) 3:00pm, 4:30pm Orientation, 6:00pm Introduction
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.
Instructor:
Venerable Dr. Dhammadipa is the Abbot of the Chuang Yen Monastery. He is a professor at Buddhist colleges in Taiwan specializing in Agama and Abhidharama. He was also a visiting professor at Sun Yet-Sen University in Guangzhou, China. He ordained his bachelor and master degress in Sri Lanka whereas doctoral degree in Theology and Religion from the Great Britain. Venerable Dr. Dhammadipa was ordained since 1987.
Fee: Chuang Yen Monastery is run on the basis of donation. It welcomes your donation to help cover its costs for hosting this retreat. A donation is welcome when participants register on the first day, or at the end of the retreat. All offering to the Buddha and Sangha are welcome.。
※If you will sponsor a vegetarian meal, please let us know before the retreat.
Arahant Meal $100、Fortune Meal $200、Auspiciousness Meal $300, Wisdom & Compassion Meal $400, Triple Gem Meal $500, Peace Meal ($any amount)
※If you are unable to participate, we welcome your joyfully engagement and merit sharing by sponsoring this retreat, or making offering to the Buddha and Sangha. Please make the check payable to B.A.U.S. All the donation are tax-deductible, send the check to: 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512.
Please note “8-day meditation retreat” on the bottom of the check.