A brief 360 degree video transporting you to Mt. Zion Cemetary in Brooklyn, NYC. Sitting among generations of the departed, one is close to the heart of what it means to be a human in a transient world.
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Vihara Parivara Dhamma’s weekly Sunday morning program. This week’s topic: “Sickness and Health” by Bhante Pamutto. “I am of the nature to sicken, I have not gone beyond sickness.” This is something the Buddha encourages us to reflect upon every day, to develop wisdom into the realities of life. Yet how do we do this,
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Lots of gratitude to the generous and devoted community here at Parivara Dhamma. Even in the midst of a blizzard that has otherwise closed the city down, the monks were able to eat and maintain the strength for another day and night of practice. Where better than your local temple to spend a snow day?
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Two Sittings a Week Upavana is now doing two virtual meditation settings a week, on Wednesday and Friday at 8 pm EST. Zoom meeting info can be found in the Meditations/Events section.
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For most of my monastic life, January has been a time of moving inward. Many monastic communities see this as the necessary time for deep retreat; with cold temperatures and long nights the conditions seem perfect for lots of formal practice. So it’s been a pleasant break from the norm to see the birth of
A recording of last Sunday’s Vipada livestream, with talk by Bhante J on ‘Qualities of Dhamma’. Q & A with Bhante J and Pamutto follows.
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Dhammapalooza every Monday, 8-10pm EST Join soon for Student of the Path channel’s Dhammapalooza – an evening of chanting, sutta study, questions and answers, and meditation with Bhante Jayasāra and Bhante Pamutto. https://www.youtube.com/c/StudentofthePath/live
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Following on from Bhante J’s talk last Sunday (link coming soon) on the Qualities of Dhamma, Vihara Parivara Dhamma has produced professionally captured and edited dhamma talks to share. Tahn Pamutto speaks on the Dhamma, beginning with an introduction to the Theravada Pali Canon and culminating in an explanation of the higher dhamma we wake
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A link to the recording of the Sunday morning session at Parivara Dhamma Acala. A talk by Bhante Jayasāra entitled “The Qualities of Dhamma”. Contains requesting of precepts and Q & A after the talk.
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There are these four thoroughbred horses, the Buddha starts one sutta in the Anguttara Nikaya. One need see only the shadow of a whip and he becomes energetic, ready to work, ready to train. Another ignores the shadow, but it roused when he hears its crack or feels it rush by. Another, refusing to be
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