Dear Dhamma Friends, This year we are honored to plan to host Luang Por Liem, Luang Por Jundee and other senior monks from Thailand on May 17-21. Luang Por Liem is 83 years old and has been a bhikkhu for 63 years. He is currently the abbot of Wat Nong Pah Pong in Thailand and is considered to be Luang Por Chah’s Dhamma heir. The last time Luang Por Liem visited was 2018, during the grand opening o…
On Sunday, April 13, the Abhayagiri community will be celebrating the traditional Thai New Year known as Songkran. Schedule: 10:30 am - Gather for alms round in the monastery. 10:40 am - Bhikkhus receive food on the buffet tables. 10:45 am - Monastic community files out and ceremonially washes the Green Buddha, then receives pindapata alms food. Monastic community gives blessing outside. 11:00 am…
The monastery entered the three-month annual winter retreat on January 6, 2025. During this time, the resident community takes time to engage in more formal meditation practice following a changing schedule of group and individual practice. We will resume the normal routines during the first week of April. During the winter retreat there will be no overnight guests. To schedule overnight visits af…
The mental consciousness creates fundamental structures that support further differentiation. These structures are so well established, or conjured up so immediately, that they become realities. The basic structures are time and space, self and other. They arise so immediately that we do not believe that they are created. I don’t seem to create the future. The future is ‘out there’. ‘There is such a thing as a tomorrow. There is an April 29th. There is a [2030]. There is my grandfather’s birthday. There is, “I’ve got to pay the rent by …”.’ Time is a structure that receives strong social suppo…
This Dhamma talk was offered on April 26, 2025 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.
