9 August 2018

What is the meaning of Thabarwa?

"Thabarwa is complete. Thabarwa, or Nature, is complete. It will represent both the original truth and the created truth. Non-living beings and living beings are created truth. The earth, the sky, the universe, the infinite universe, all these non-living beings are created truth. Cow's, dogs, all these are living beings. All living beings are also created truth. They are nature. Nama, rupa and nibanna are original truth. They are also nature. Both created truth and original truth are nature, Thabarwa. So Thabarwa, the meaning of Thabarwa is complete. Thabarwa or nature is complete so I chose that name.

The United States only represents the living beings and non-living beings, not the truth of ever new impermanent nature. That is why the United States is not complete. People here are also not representing the truth. We all need a place and the complete wisdom. This is why I chose the name Thabarwa Nature Center, to fulfill the needs of the people, living beings and non-living beings.

I was welcomed by the people here, which is why I could visit and buy the land here. I got the support of the people because I support the people. If I don't support the people, they will not support me. This place was created by the help of people, so I need to use this place for the people, for all in need. This is the right and most suitable way to use it. If you understand, you just need to do like this, and the more you do the more you will understand it. Simple but deep. Not like this, not like that, no limits. My teaching represents limitlessness. The words I use have limits but the meaning behind is limitless. You need to find out beyond the words or language."


What does Doing-Only mean? (People misunderstand it as non-caring.)


"Doing-Only does not represent living beings. It represents the truth, which is why there are no words for it from the human beings. Like in Myanmar, there was no car, so we used to call it just 'car' like in English, in Burmese language. In English it is C-A-R and in Burmese it is Kagyi-yecha-wissanalomba : ကား]. We have to use the same pronunciation but with different letters, because we have no word in Burmese for car. So the truth, doing-only, is not the action of people or animals, not the action of living beings. This is why doing-only is the nearest word to represent the truth. I am not speaking about the word doing-only, I speak about the truth, which is more than doing-only. It is doing-only without attachment. It doesn't represent careless doing. We need to detach. Caring represents attachment. We want to take care of someone. We want to care because we are attached to taking care of someone or something. So we need to do good deeds and do our daily activities without attachment, because we also have attachment to limits. We need to detach both from the limits and from attachments. Meditation is beyond the intelligence of human beings, so it takes time to understand about meditation or about mindfulness and detachment."


How does Buddhism define suffering?


" If we see from the side of living beings, including animals, life means food, life means coffee, music, art, money, fame, power, love. For some people love is life, money is life. For some people medicine is life; they are alive with medicine. For some people family is life. Without it they cannot live their lives. For some people friends are life. They cannot live their lives without friends. Some people will be friends with cats or dogs. Without friends they cannot live. For some people life is freedom. They love freedom. For some people life is philosophy or ideas. Without philosophy or ideas they cannot survive. So this kind of life is incomplete.

The truth is that all living beings are suffering, suffering for their life, suffering love, suffering drinks, suffering food, medicine, freedom, power, earth, music, sport, joy, smile, suffering the smile. In fact they cannot understand their own suffering. Suffering is the action so the truth is suffering. The life is suffering from living beings and non-living beings, suffering something or someone. This is the truth. Without suffering there will be no life. If there is life, there will be suffering. Suffering good, suffering bad. For some people life is anger. For some people life is greed. For some people life is ignorance. They are suffering ignorance, greed and anger. If we cannot understand our own suffering we can never be free from suffering, so the truth is suffering. Because of attachment on suffering we cannot be free from suffering.

For me, I am used to dealing with warm weather, so whenever it is too cold, I have to suffer it. I sleep with dislike. I don't want to suffer cold. I want to keep myself warm when I sleep. That is also suffering. But I didn't know my suffering. Only when I meditated I knew life is suffering. Hot and cold are not much important if we understand the truth of suffering. We need to detach from suffering. We need to know our own action of suffering at the present moment. And then we need to detach. If we can detach our life will be real freedom. Freedom from suffering. If we don't know about suffering we cannot be free from suffering. Time will change, place and situation will change, but suffering will not change. If you are not suffering happiness or joy you will be suffering sadness or sorrow. This is sure." 

Sayadaw, I think westerners can't understand what it means to suffer happiness.

"Suffer means.... They like food, smoking, drinking, all this is that they want to suffer the taste of food, the taste of happiness. We want to see and taste the adventure movie because we want to taste the adventure. We want to see the movie of ghosts or unseen creatures because we want to suffer. We want to suffer fear."


Doesn't it mean just feeling then?


Feeling is just feeling but In English suffering means something negative.

"Both good and bad should be mindful of and detached. Both suffering and feelings need to be detached. Because of attachment, feeling is not good. Suffering is also not good. Like for example we want to be good, to be healthy, to be skillful. This is also attachment on good things and actions. Because of attachment we cannot understand the real good thing, which is permanent nature. We think good people, good, rich, clever, long life, or health as the truth. People in the society think that to have work, fame, health, all these are true, that good food, good people are true, but this is wrong. These are just created truth, not real, but people think these are real. They think sickness, poorness, stupid are bad. If we think life is good we may also think that no life is bad. If we think earning or having is good, then we think having nothing is bad. Because we misunderstand that life is good, we think sickness is bad. This is why we misunderstand health or good health is good. This is suffering, suffering something as good and suffering something as bad, suffering that someone is good and the other opposite someone is bad. All these are sufferings. Attachment is suffering. It will take time to understand. Only when you are mindful while you are happy you may understand that it is because of attachment for suffering good things as real. We can use good things but we should not attach on these things. The real good things are mindfulness and detachment. Because people are not mindful while doing what is good or speaking what is bad."




19 July 2018

Ouverture de l'association 'Thabarwa Nature Centre France'

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Nombreux sont ceux qui souhaitent que Sayardaw Ashin Ottamathara ouvre Thabarwa Nature Centre France (TNC France) .

Je suis entrain de m'organiser pour ouvrir l'association TNC France. Dans un premier temps, J'aurais besoin de savoir tous les participants pour définir les différents postes.

Vous trouvez ci-joint les participants de TNC France: (merci de me signaler SVP les personnes désirant s' ajouter)

1) Jean Batiste (Paris)
2) Theingi yadanar Hmoon(Paris)
3) Ko Ko Zaw (Paris)
4) Morgan
 5)Su Myat Win (Langres)
6) Daw Thike Kyaw Shin (Mulhouse)

Cordialement Theingi

Contact :
tnc.france@gmail.com





14 June 2018

Projects

Whatever projects Sayadaw Ottamathara is doing intend to fulfill the need of society and solve society's problems and to help people to use their life and their belongings in a meaningful way. For more knowledge about his vision, you can have look to our different audio and ebooks about Sayadaw teaching.

Here you can find a non exhaustive list of upcoming projects:



And you can use this PayPal button to make a donation for any of these projects:

Animal shelter

Description

The animal shelter started at Hlegu in 2016 to accept any animal without limit of numbers or health conditions and to offer them a safe land where they can live without fear or worry and have medical care and food as much as we can. As there is no limit of number we get more animals than donations but we will keep on accepted them whatever long it is. The final plan is to build a nature reserve where animals are protecting from any harm and predator. We are developing right now the road to make the center more accessible for the doctor and are finishing to build the cow and buffalo shelters, their water ponds and many others facilities.

Currently, there is no electricity which is slowing down everything and increase all the costs.

Today population:
- 900 dogs
- 200 cows
- 80 buffaloes
- 70 cats
- 50 goats
- 30 chickens
- 17 pigs
- 3 bears
- 2 foxes 

How to participate?

Since the Burmese culture is not oriented to support the animal life, we are struggling to raise money. People could send cooked or uncooked food directly and skilled people are very welcoming to build suitable animal infrastructures or take care of them. We also welcome volunteers who can dedicate years to this project.


Biogas Implants

Description

The center host over 4000 permanent residents and a lot of temporary residents or guests. The daily waste from the food is extremely important and the human waste is also very considerable. Besides all the kitchen are running on wood fire which is not costly but requires a lot of time, effort, space to store and transportation and manpower to bring daily loads to the center.

Human wastes are collected in septic tanks which are overflowing as the population is too high for the size of the tanks and we face many troubles every week to suck the tanks and dispose the waste away from the center.

Combining these information the idea to use the human dung and organic waste as source of cooking gas emerged. Could we use our human waste, organic food and oil waste to produce enough gas for cooking and relieving the hard work and energy, space and time necessary for the wood cooking fire?

To make it happen we need knowledgeable persons who have rhetorical and practical experience to guide to set up the system. We may also need persons ready to physically start setting up all the process and educate local people to use it.

How to participate?

Material : biogas implant could be acquired by the center once the project is clearly defined and funds available.

Skills needed: experienced people with such implants and in similar situation or ready to take the situation in hand at the beginning.

Duration : if the conditions are complete (skillful people over viewing, material acquired) the duration to set up and start the project could be just a matter of few days. It will take few weeks before we can actually use the gas and then check it is set up in efficient and practical way to be used or some adjustments may still be needed. Once the system is set up, local residents should be able to operate it. If successful the project may be replicated in other centers where conditions allow its development.


Drain water cover

Description

The center is extended on 90 acres of land and very populated. We built the center on an empty land and created house after house, street after street, building after building and later on hospital one after the other. As the center started to grow and expand we had to set up all the water system, roads, septic tanks, and drain water systems. Because of the very rapid growth, the emergency to create shelters and find solutions to all the wastes and to cover basic needs , many systems are not working properly or are overloaded.

The drain water system is essential to drive water out of our center all year long and especially during the raining season. Due to lack of trash management and education the drains get clogged by rubbish or other organic waste and overflows and/or bring diseases proliferation. After trying to clean it again and again we understand that only a systematic approach can solve the problem efficiently : by dividing the drains into sections, inserting filters that will not allow the rubbish to flow down further and covering with a mesh that would prevent external trash to come in we can , section by section, be successful to clean and cover the full drain system in all the center and sanitize the streets.

How to participate?

Material : some mesh to cover, filters fit to the drain size, metallic structure to fix the cover and allow to open at filter points to clean regularly.

Skills needed :   patience, perseverance, manual skills to measure each section and prepare the cover and filters (welding skills are welcome), being systematic and adaptable to different situations. Ability to work as a team. While some volunteers may work on measuring and creating the covers and filters another team may start to clean the drain and dispose all rubbish away than installing the cover and finish one section. The center is very big and there are a lot of surfaces to cover but each section complete will be a step forward to the sanitization of the center and benefit well being and safety of all the residents and sick people living here.

Duration of the project : to complete the full center it may take months but each volunteer could complete a portion in short time if the team is working in harmony. The long term volunteers are necessary to overview the project and to get familiar with the system and be able to find materiel and tools needed.


Eco projects

Description

Myanmar is opening recently and lacking of knowledge and technology about self sustainable solutions, Eco-farming projects, recycling factories and others environment issues.

The center has a lot of empty land and is ready to welcome any initiative about this problematic.

How to participate?

Come and stay :)


Expecting women and newborn

Description

The project started in Mandalay few years ago when a dedicated lady, Kyi Myint Nay , decided to take care of pregnant women who had no access to the hospital because they were not married. So she took care of them in a temporary accommodation and provided everything needed for them and the birth. Afterwards the mother was free to keep it with her or leave him in our hands. The number of cases increased so we decided to move the mother and the baby in our Thanlyin center where basic care and education are provided. If the baby stay here after the mother left then the center will fully take care of him.

Kyi Myint Nay also dedicated her time traveling the country to educate, inform, answer the questions of women encounters in schools or different institutions like western family planning services.

How to participate?

All kind of materiel support is welcome like toys, tools for baby care, baby food or money to support the lodging, the maintenance and the development of our nurseries and the babies life future.


Free from drug

Description

In the golden triangle, the heroin and opium Asian factory, we are developing a new center specially dedicated for people who wants to be free from drug addiction. At the present moment, we are at the very first stage of development and are building infrastructures. With nuns and monks, we are starting the ALMS round to provide the food for the center. The center's aim is to help people detach from addiction and learn to use their life in a better way to change the perceptions of everybody.

How to participate?

There is a materiel need to build the infrastructures and roads so we need skilled and experienced people and eventually people who are interesting to be involved long term in the project.

Free from trash

Description

Myanmar didn’t have any trash managements until very recently. The country is overwhelmed by trash, mountains of trash accumulated for many years are spreading disease, and stealing place to other nature. The center has been pioneer in acquiring the first trash car in Myanmar 2 years ago and decided to be pioneer again by acquiring a machine that can process trash and reduce the size by 300 times.

This machine is from Japan and can process 2 tons of trash per day (all trash except metal, glass, porcelain- requesting that the trash is not having more than 30% humidity). It is unique opportunity to be actually really part of the world cleaning solution and not just talking about it. To operate such a machine a lot of manpower will be needed and especially a lot of people decided to make it work no matter what difficulty we will have to overcome. Not only operating and maintaining the machine itself will be a big challenge but also to set up all the process of collection, drying, in-putting in the machine and managing the output.

How to participate?

manpower, time, energy, if possible experience and knowledge in this concern

Material : we may need some material besides what is already provided for the collection of to make the process more efficient but mostly the material should be provided already by the center.

Skills needed : skills, experience and knowledge are necessary for leading the project and to run and do maintenance of the machine and deal with the output. No skills are needed to participate and be part of the manpower team.

Duration of the project : to start and establish the project can take weeks and months. Once established people can join for various duration of time. This project will go on for years and may lead to multiplication of the project at different sites in the country and also to pursue of the recycling project by combining other types of recycling machine (such as machine to convert plastic and sand into road pavements)




Hlegu

Description

The Hlegu center will be the biggest Thabarwa center in the future with 4 portions of 100 acres each. This area is easily reachable so we already established the animal shelter, the school, the old aged shelter, the second "Good Will" village and the monks residents.

The "Good Will" village is a place to welcome families who can get a piece of land for free after completed a 7 days meditation course. This village is fully supported by Sayadaw Ottamathara and we are aim to develop more schools, markets, living areas and independent shops.

There is currently no electricity even if the infrastructures for it are present already. The roads are present but still quite challenging. The final map of the project will have private residents, supermarkets, a fish market, a fire station, an hotel, a meditation forest, a bigger land for the animal shelter...

How to participate?

Skilled workers, long term teachers, meditaters and good willing mid term volunteers are very welcome. At the moment, it is not a comfortable place to stay but it is a good chance to participate to the development of the center from the beginning. We also want to develop Eco-farming and self sustainable solutions so if you have any experience about it you are also very welcome.



Media merit bank

Description

'Media merit bank' is one of the many good activities of Thabarwa : publishing and distributing for free Dhamma books or other médias to spread Dhamma. Before even becoming a monk, Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara had his free distribution of Dhamma in 38th Street called 'from Avijja to Vijja' (from ignorance to knowledge) where he would distribute freely DVD, books, posters of his teachings as well as other famous Sayadaws... Since that time Thabarwa never stopped publishing and distributing books or media's freely. We are just about to print the new book in Italian from extract of Sayadaw teaching in italy, translated in Italian so that more people can access Dhamma. I had the great opportunity to donate 500 euros for that book and I want to share the merits with all people who donated to me to support my life and practice and who gave me the chance to do this great good deed.

Sharing the joy of spreading Dhamma with all living beings and hoping to inspire others to try that kind of good deed... As Sayadaw says : 'we get what we do', by helping others to know and understand Dhamma, one can understand and know more about Dhamma himself.😇🤗

Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu !

How to participate?

Here is the link to read online the book : https://app.box.com/s/v0ateh9iz63hcxh7oaogc6jzw7uf0buq



Multi educational university

Description

Sayadaw Ottamathara wants to provide education in a wide sense from kinder garden to university including Buddhist, personal, nature and morality education. We aim to provide education to Myanmar citizen as well as foreigner students.

How to participate?

We need long term patient teachers, students and workers for the infrastructures.




Recycling/Waster Management

Description

Sayadaw​ Ottamathara makes the rubbish management a priority for Thabarwa and for Myanmar: we will acquire and build a recycling machine in shortest time. Recycle all what you have to do good deeds, all our skills should be recycled for benefit of all, all our belongings should support for benefit of All, all our efforts should be combined for success of All.

How to participate?

There is a need for volunteers to help this project become successful, you can join on the field or support materially.




United land donation

Description

Everybody knows how to save money on your bank account but we never think about saving merits.

Sayadaw Ottamathara created a concept of Merits bank in 2015 who help people to save merits for their own credits by donating food, items, money to people in need and therefore to create good actions and karma for themselves.

Based on this concept, we are doing a good deed raising to purchase a 9 acres piece of land that will connect two separated pieces of Thanlyin Thabarwa center. On this land, we are going to build a 16 stories Dhamma Hospital, two resident buildings for meditaters with a dedicated meditation area, a multi education center, a green house, an permaculture complex, a children playground and many others infrastructures.

The lands are becoming extremely expensive around Yangon but we decided to choose this land for Dhamma. Like everybody can give a spoon of rice to the center , we decided to set up a minimal amount of 50 000 kyats, less than 40 US $. At the moment, people are joining forces to raise this amount monthly. Our international volunteers are also participating to it and like them you can join us or create your own group.

How to participate?

Bank transfert to:
- TNC Thailand - Kasikorn Bank - No 041-3-43522-6 - Mrs Kansinee Vuttijukkul



Water Treatment system

Description

We are in a very development country so the living conditions are still challenging. The Thanlyin center started with 100 people with his own water system but the population growth since then, today 3400, but not the water system and his sewage system...

We keep on fixing with short term solutions because we cannot afford to buy a complete new structure for a long term use even if the structure is already designed by our engineers.

How to participate?

Any skilled water workers are more than welcome for a long term and of course money also (see United land donation for donations information). This problem will be the same in every new center so there is a constant opportunity for skilled or/and generous people to participate.




23 May 2018

Élections du Dhamma - Traduction française


Aujourd’hui ce sont les élections au Myanmar. Tous les votants éligibles peuvent se rendre dans les bureaux de vote et voter pour leur candidat préféré. Bien que les moines et nonnes n’ont pas le droit de voter pour des élections, en exerçant des actes de générosité (Dana), en conservant un code de conduite moral (Sila) et en pratiquant la méditation (Bhavana) eux aussi valident leur vote sain ou malsain au quotidien.

Dans le monde, il y a une variété de professions possibles pour les gens. Afin de combattre les actions malsaines, nous devons nous abstenir de soutenir les efforts de la société. Afin que le parti qui produit des mérites gagne contre le parti qui produit des démérites, nous devrions nous efforcer à faire plus d’actions salutaires telles que Dana, Sila et Bhavana. Nous devons propager cette victoire des bonnes actions dans notre entourage, ville, état, pays, dans le monde et l’univers entier.

La suite ici : Elections du Dhamma

16 May 2018

Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara Dhamma tour in Europe


Welcome to All....

( All teachings will be given in English and translated in respective local language\ all teachings are free of charge and as much as possible accommodation and food is offered in most places)

LAST MINUTE CHANGES 01/07/18

ITALY / ITALIA :

27 june -3 July Italy 7 days retreat /TNC Italy, Serravale Scrivia (AL) (all free of charge /contact at info@thabarwanaturecentre.org for more details and register)

FRANCE :

8- 10 July retreat at Langres (free teaching and food, accommodation only to cover by participants 120€ for 7 days, contact by email, SMS or call Yadanar Hmoon ±33 0646248060 / theingihmoon@gmail.com)

10-14 July - Paris - 7 rue de la cite firmin bourgeois, 93350 Le Bourget

14 July - Sayadaw fly to USA

3 May 2018

Ashin Sarana Dhamma Talk

On 4th of may, as every other week on Friday, Ashin Sarana from Czech republic will come at Thabarwa Nature Center, Thanlyin and will share his knowledge at :

3pm at USA Dhamma hall in english
5pm at 119 Dhamma hall in Myanmar language

It is scheduled Ashin Sarana will come every other week on Friday at Thabarwa Nature Center (so on 4th, 18th may, etc)...​We will try as much as possible to share on fb live on our Thabarwa page ( သဘဝတရားရိပ္သာရုပ္သံမဨတ္တမ္း) and you also should follow Ashin Sarana fb page :)

Short notice on Fb, so talk, talk talk to your friend,
Share, share share on Fb,
Come, come come all to listen Dhamma!

ခ်က္ျပည္သူ႔သမတႏိုင္ငံမွ အရွင္သရဏ သည္ သဘာဝတရား ရိပ္သာ​ 119္ဓမၼာ႐ုံတြင္ ၄.၅. ၂၀၁၈ေန႔ ညေန ၅:၀၀-၆:၃၀ နာရီ အခ်ိန္ ဗဳဒၶ ဓမၼတရားေတာ္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာဘာသာျဖင့္ေဟာၾကားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသျဖင့္ တရားနာႂကြေရာက္ၾကပါရန္ ေလးစားစြာဖိတ္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။

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24 January 2018

Thabarwa Nature Center EU meditation retreats

English 

 

"Focused awareness and awareness without choice" 

(Understanding through meditative practice how to develop clear vision and train the heart / mind to natural awareness)

The retreat will be conducted by the venerable monks Taehye Sunim and Kusalananda of the Musang Am Monastery of Lerici, following the teaching of Sayadaw Ottamasara.

The retreat’s program will be sent to the participants later.

To participate in the retreat is free, people can give a Dana (free offer) for the teaching.

Places are limited and registration will be closed when the limit of number of people is reached.

INSCRIPTIONS AND INFORMATION


Italian

 

"Consapevolezza focalizzata e consapevolezza senza scelta"

(Comprendere attraverso la pratica meditativa come sviluppare la chiara visione e addestrare il cuore/mente alla consapevolezza naturale)

Il ritiro sará condotto dai venerabili monaci Taehye Sunim e Kusalananda del Monastero Musang Am di Lerici, seguendo gli insegnamenti del Venerabike Sayadaw Ottamasara.

Il programma del ritiro sarà inviato agli iscritti successivamente.

Il ritiro é gratuito, per gli insegnamenti si può effettuare un Dana (offerta libera).

I posti sono limitati e le iscrizioni si chiuderanno al raggiungimento degli iscritti.

ISCRIZIONI e INFORMAZIONI

16 January 2018

The Dhamma Hospital

In 2012, Sayadaw Ottamathara had the idea to built a Dhamma Hospital to provide a place for patients, yogis and meditators so everybody can practice meditation, have a peaceful mind and a healthy body. It is a safe place suitable for all to get a better understanding of the benefits of meditation and doing good deeds. All around the world, doctors and scientist are researching these benefits in healing and/or preventing physical and mental afflictions. Meditation is the unique way to truly heal and/or change your mind to fulfill your desire to return to good health more quickly. Since the opening ceremony in May 2017, the Dhamma Hospital offers refuge to 400 yogis/patients to be cared for by locals and Burmese (students) nurses.

Here is a recording of Sayadaw Ottamathara explaining what is the Dhamma Hospital: Audio

6 January 2018

Thabarwa Nature Center EU needs you

Appello a tutti i volontari meditanti: Il Centro Thabarwa Nature Center EU, ha bisogno di te. Nei primi giorni di dicembre una violenta pioggia ghiacciata ha spaccato molti alberi che si trovano nel meraviglioso bosco che contorna il Centro. Il Centro è in fase di costruzione, ma può già ospitare volontari. Abbiamo urgente bisogno di aiuto per salvare le piante che a causa dei rami spezzati rischiano di morire. Come in tutti i Centri fondati dal Venerabile Sayadaw Ottamasara potrai ricevere cibo alloggio e praticare meditazione in totale gratuità.Nel centro è presente anche un'insegnante di meditazione che seguendo l'insegnamento di Sayadaw potrà aiutarti nella pratica. Grazie a tutti quelli che risponderanno a questo appello.

Appeal to all meditating volunteers: The Thabarwa Nature Center EU needs you. In the first days of December a violent rain and hail broke through many trees in the wonderful forest that surrounds the Center. The Center is under construction, but it can already host volunteers. We urgently need help to save the plants that are likely to die because of broken branches . As in all the Centers founded by the Venerable Sayadaw Ottamasara you can receive food accommodation and practice meditation total free. In the center there is also a meditation teacher who, following Sayadaw's teaching, can help you in practicing. Thanks to all those who will respond to this appeal.

Contact:
Dr Dony Barbagallo

‭+39 347 6977778‬
barbagallo.dony@libero.it

5 January 2018

2018 Foreign trips

22 Feb. - 20 March

Malaysian - Singapore


4 May - 8 May

Vietnam - Danang (7 days), Hatian (5 days), Saigon (2 days)


22 May - 20 July ==> Europe Tour

May

22Fly to Scotland than visit land in Holland & Belgium

June

6 or 7Drive to Frankfurt
9 to 12Buddha’s Weg and Frankfurt temple teachings...(last teaching 12 evening)
13Visit in Klein Raden
14 to 15Drive to Lithuania
16 to 22Lithuania & Riga
23 to 25Travel to Switzerland
26Travel to Italy
27 to 3 JulyItaly retreat

July

4 to 6 Italy visit authorities
7 Drive to France (Langres or Montpellier)
7 to 8 Montpellier (or Normandie)
9 to 16 Retreat at Langres
17 to 20Paris

23 July - 29 October

USA tour

Thabarwa Nature centers in the world

Some of our Thabarwa centers in Myanmar

4 January 2018

Welcome to the new Thabarwa center in Italy



The Thabarwa Nature Center Europe is established with a headquarter in Italy.


A Vipassana Meditation and International solidarity Center situated in Piemonte, between Serravalle Scrivia and Gavi where people, anyone, without discrimination, can actively participate and build a community based on social well being, engaging oneself in volunteer work and receiving teachings of Samatha Meditation (concentration through sustained attention) and Vipassana Meditation (insight through reflection and clear vision).

Thabarwa Centers belong to everyone – not to somebody in particular – who desire to do good deeds with no limits, with altruistic spirit breaking the boundaries of the “Self”.

The center is still in the process of being organized, but you can already contact us for information and start collaborating actively with us: everyone can participate in the life of the center by offering their time and will.

Food, lodging and teaching are freely provided.
In order to participate and contribute to the birth of the center, please fill in the attached form.



For more information Email:
Southern Italy: thabarwacinquefrondi@gmail.com | Thabarwa Southern Italy Facebook
Northern Italy: info@thabarwanaturecentre.org | 
Thabarwa Nature Center website

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069073266626






 


January Events

Weekend Meditation Retreat in Noble Silence

Guided by Sayalay Chandadhika

Jan 5 - Jan 7

Meditation retreat - water fasting with mindfulness/detachment

Guided by Sayalay Khema Cari

Jan 9 - Jan 16

Doing What We Cannot Do : Guided Meditation



Keep our head and body upright. Lift the weight of our body, hands and legs. Don’t push your body down on the ground. 

Close the eyes gently, relax the whole body and mind. Try to adjust each of our action to be natural without force, without paying attention. Doing intentionally is not natural. We should try to meditate as a seasoned meditator; we should be a professional meditator. 

Because meditation and doing good deeds are good actions. By doing good actions we should abandon doing bad things. Whenever we do good deeds we should do our best; we should try hard. In this way our ability to do good deeds will be stronger and stronger. 

We shouldn’t do good deeds and practicing meditation half heartedly, we should do it seriously. When we do good deeds, we should ignore other actions and we should pay hundred per cent attention in our action of doing good deeds.

Keep our head and body upright. But not like soldiers. Try to be acting naturally. 

In order to detach from the things outside, focus on our normal breath. We must not do what we used to do. Try to do what we cannot do. Try to be mindful without our own habits. Try to be doing-only, without attachment. 

Be careful not to think about the past or to dream about the future. Be mindful of the present happening of our body and mind at the present moment. Just use the present moment. 

We are able to use this life, this year, this month, this day, this hour, this minute, this second. The time that we understand has limits. The present moment has no limits. We cannot grasp the present moment as this time or that time. Try To use the present moment. Try to be one with the present moment. We can understand the Truth only at the present moment. 


The Truth, Impermanent Nature is beyond limits. Something has limits, someone has limits. The Truth, Impermanent Nature has no limits, which is permanent. 

There are two permanent truths, one is Impermanent Nature and the other is Permanent Nature. Both, Impermanent and Permanent Nature are beyond time and place. 

The time and place that we know have limits. Our life has limits. We all must die when the limits come to the end. 

Our intelligence has limits. We cannot understand everything. We are using the limited ability, we cannot do everything. 

The practice of meditation and doing good deeds is to be free from limits. We all must go beyond limits.  Present moment lasts a very short time. No one creates that moment. 

Let go off thinking. Let go off moving. Try to sit still. Stop thinking about doing something. Try to accept doing-only and try hard as much as you can; don’t give up. We should give up doing something. We should give up using the idea of someone. 

Meditation or the practice of mindfulness is to do in all opposites situations such as young or old, healthy or sick, male or female, having desire to do or not, being able to do or not. We must be able to use all conditions, good or bad, to do good deeds and to meditate. 

Continuous practice of doing what we cannot do is the key to get success. In this way we are changing our ability. We must change our action and in this way we can change our life. We must change our view. Because we are not perfect we need to change. No one is perfect except Buddha this is why we all need to change; change our view, our action, our life, our ability. 


Doing what we can do is not changing ourselves. Now we all are trying to do what we cannot do. Normally we cannot lose our belongings, our life, and our habits. 

Giving our life, our belongings for the benefit of other people is necessary. Doing what we cannot do can cause superpower which can enable to do what we cannot do. Same cause, same effect. If we do what we can do, we will be able to do only what we can do.  If we do what we cannot do, we will be able to do what we cannot do.

The Truth is beyond our understanding. In order to know what we cannot understand we should do what we cannot do. Most o
f the meditators are practicing just as they can do that is why they are just meditators, just followers. To be a leader we should do what we cannot do. We should change our ability.


End of the teaching.