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This year’s Wesak Day Celebration will be on the 18-19 May 2019, with the theme: “Know Your Mind; Train Your Mind; Free Your Mind”.
We wish to invite and extend to you an opportunity to volunteer in various activities towards preparing and help during the Wesak Day Celebration this year. Please write your names and contact at the dedicated notice board at the lobby, or fill in your contact in the online form.
WESAK 2019 VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION
You may also whatsapp your name, contact details and area of interest to Sis Meng Meng 019-3533730
We are pleased to inform that Bro.Tan Buck Soon will be conducting the 4th lesson of the “Introduction to Meditation Course" at UBV on 14 Mar 2019 at 8.30pm. The topic this week is “The Practice”.
Lesson 5: The Five Spiritual Faculties - (21.3.19)
Lesson 6: The Path to Liberation - (28.3.19)
For further information, please contact Bro. Danny Liew: 012-2073925.
We are pleased to inform you that Bro. Dasanna will be conducting an “Intermediate Meditation Course" (4 consecutive Thursdays) at UBV starting from 4 Apr 2019 to 25 Apr 2019.
As this is a course , we encourage all who are interested to learn meditation to register online or at our UBV Sunday counter.
Bro. Dassana
Bro Dassana has been practising Vipassana Medidation for the past 20 years. He has done many years of retreats in Mynmar, Thailand and Malaysia under various teachers. Most of his retreats are in the Mahasi tradition, though he has also explored others traditions as well. He was also a monk for 17 years which give him the opportunity and time to study the theory and to do long intensive vipassana retreats.
Registration for this workshop is now closed. We shall be sending notification to all participants soon.
For further info, please call Bro. Bryan Kok: 012-2295583
Registration for this retreat is open. Closing date is on 10 Jul 2019 or upon reaching our optimum numbers.
Please register online or at our UBV Sunday counter.
There is no fee charged for the retreat but donation is encouraged.
For further info, please call Bro. Danny Liew : 012-207 3925.
Patrick Kearney
Patrick Kearney is an independent dharma teacher in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. He has trained extensively in the Mahasi approach to insight meditation, his principal teachers being Panditarama Sayadaw and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen Buddhism. His original teacher was Robert Aitken Roshi, and he has since studied with other Diamond Sangha teachers in Australia.
Patrick has a particular interest in the original teachings of the Buddha, before the creation of Theravada or Mahayana. He studies Pali, the language of the earliest surviving Indian recension of the Buddha's teachings, and seeks to bring his understanding of the early texts to the practice of dharma in the contemporary world.