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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.
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