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Abhayagiri Kathina 2025

You are welcome to join the Abhayagiri sangha for this year’s Kathina ceremony on Sunday, October 12. Everyone is warmly welcome. The schedule for the day is: 9:30am - Arrive at the Monastery 10:30am - Meal Offering 1:00pm - Kathina Ceremony and Dhamma Talk Each year since the time of the Buddha, at the end of the three‑month Rains Retreat, the lay community around Buddhist monasteries have gather…

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Updated Version of Ajahn Pasanno Archive Now Available

Ajahn Pasanno’s 76th birthday is approaching on July 26. But this year our beloved teacher and founding co-abbot is assisting at Amaravati Monastery so Ajahn Amaro can take a sabbatical year. Although we will not have the opportunity to pay respects to Ajahn Pasanno on his birthday, we invite you to listen to his teachings on the newly revamped Ajahn Pasanno Archive. The Ajahn Pasanno Archive coll…

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Bhikkhunī Ānandabodhī

I remember a woman telling me that it was hard for her to come into her body. As we spoke, I noticed that she was sitting in a way that was collapsed just below the ribs and that her shoulders were hunched forward. All her energy was in her head, thinking about how she couldn’t be in her body. I invited her to lie down on the floor and breathe deeply into her belly. I encouraged her to let her chest and shoulders open, so that her body could receive the whole of the breath. “Okay,” I said. “Can you breathe down into your chest? Can you breathe down into your solar plexus? Can you breathe down…

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