tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88878662961200377942024-03-13T21:18:23.649+08:00ThaBarWa CentreSharing, Caring, Helping, Protection and Cooperation by Mindfulness and Right Understanding.Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-36677924776919428632023-12-16T05:42:00.009+08:002023-12-16T05:43:57.074+08:00Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara Received the Honorary Appellation "Kammatthänacariya Saddhammajotika Lokatthacariya Ven. Ashin Ottamathera " Sadhu 🙏 Sadhu 🙏Sadhu 🙏<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtc7oG7A6NiT0NJEzED9ygLSjiwGdptwosfrAAHVvbF6tPPveDqD574xKq3W33jpwO8mN7eC4vKBQOuMGEXFs2ZrmO2g09Wq2BMO_rZUIrFyu4OOMY6k7e1pu5WpFMcpHw10RRFin4pAmGxEvAMfkKhfVJ537lFG2_5ELCrr7tEjtBMR1W36yD2tUCgc/s1080/Sayadaw%20Ashin%20Ottamathara%20Received%20the%20Honorary%20Appellation%20Kammattha%CC%88nacariya%20Saddhammajotika%20Lokatthacariya%20Ven.%20Ashin%20Ottamathera.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtc7oG7A6NiT0NJEzED9ygLSjiwGdptwosfrAAHVvbF6tPPveDqD574xKq3W33jpwO8mN7eC4vKBQOuMGEXFs2ZrmO2g09Wq2BMO_rZUIrFyu4OOMY6k7e1pu5WpFMcpHw10RRFin4pAmGxEvAMfkKhfVJ537lFG2_5ELCrr7tEjtBMR1W36yD2tUCgc/w543-h543/Sayadaw%20Ashin%20Ottamathara%20Received%20the%20Honorary%20Appellation%20Kammattha%CC%88nacariya%20Saddhammajotika%20Lokatthacariya%20Ven.%20Ashin%20Ottamathera.png" width="543" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-89234587710935786112023-12-16T04:17:00.004+08:002024-01-13T04:26:29.688+08:00How the Thabarwa Nature Center deals with COVID-19 during the pandemic (Article)<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-color: black currentcolor; border-style: solid none; border-width: 1.5pt medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; padding: 4pt 31pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Thabarwa Centres – a mindful foresight strategy </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 6pt 0.5in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Khema Cari, Aloka Nani</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thabarwa Centre, Downtown Centre, No. 45, 4<sup>th</sup> Floor, 45<sup>th</sup> Street, Yangon, Myanmar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9pt;">Abstract: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9pt;">Within the frame of globalisation and the strive for future modes of living in a global society, this article describes the development of the Thabarwa Meditation Centres, which started in Yangon, Myanmar in 2007. It explains the aim of the centres, their mode of operation, and their organisational structure, based on the centres’ main paradigms. To understand their stunning growth and success, it is crucial to perceive how they bring their members to understand what is called the “law of cause and effect” concerning everyone’s actions. Once a person understands this law of cause and effect, one can use it to transform his or her life. A Thabarwa Centre is the place where any person can abandon creating causes for suffering (understood in the Buddhist sense) and instead make causes for good results. This article describes how the Thabarwa Centres are answering the needs of society on material and spiritual levels by offering free food, housing, medical care, education and meditation guidance to everyone that arrives in the centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Keywords: Social help, meditation, Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, purification of mind, mindfulness, truth, desire, suffering, nature, impermanence, healing, Myanmar, Yangon</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor black; border-image: none; border-style: none none solid; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; padding: 31pt 31pt 0in; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 6pt;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p></div><p> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">1 Introduction</span></b></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> The main Thabarwa Nature Centre is located in Thanlyin, Myanmar (formerly Burma) about one hour away from downtown Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The Burmese word “Thabarwa”, refers to nature and natural law, which is the subject of the teaching of the Buddha </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">(Boowa, 1995)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 11pt;">. Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara, the founder and leader of Thabarwa Centre, chose this name because the two kinds of nature described in Buddhism, permanent nature and impermanent nature, include all phenomena, and Thabarwa Centre is all-inclusive </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">(Ottamathara, 2002)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 11pt;">. Furthermore, an investigation of nature by observation of one’s own body and mind, known as Vipassana meditation, is the tradition of Buddha and his followers, carried on by the meditation teachers of the Buddhist country of Myanmar. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw Ottamathara established the centre in 2007 with the mission of “Sharing, Caring, Helping, Protection and Cooperation by Mindfulness and Right Understanding,” and with a vision of providing opportunities for people to do a wide range of good deeds on a regular basis. The centre is open to anyone, any time, under any circumstances. Anyone can help in the centre as they see fit, according to the conditions that are present from time to time, and anyone can take what they need, be it social and material comfort or spiritual attainment. </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">As a founder, Sayadaw Ottamathara did not decide to build a centre to fulfil his personal desire but to answer a dramatic need of the society, which is unsupported by the government for elderly care or much in terms of mental health care. To solve the most urgent and significant problems of the people, he used his life to find ways to answer the greatest needs, those of housing, food, and medical care.</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> The main objective of the centre is to help people understand and live according to what is named the truth in the prevailing context of the country. Sayadaw’s explanation for how to reach this goal is to do all kinds of good deeds. <i>Pariyatti</i> and <i>Patipatti Sasana, </i>the theory and practice of the Buddha’s teachings (Sugunasiri, 2005)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> allow centre residents to enhance their power of right understanding<a href="applewebdata://9D9FCFC5-FC16-421C-89B3-873BDB3FB8D2#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>, or an understanding of non-self nature, that life is just to use, experience and know only, without attachment. By listening to <i>Dhamma</i> teachings (explanations of natural law, or ‘the way it is’, according to Buddhism; Sumedho, 2012), practicing <i>Vipassana</i> (i.e. insight, see Ledi, 1965) meditation, and <i>doing limitless good deeds with mindfulness and detachment</i>, they come to achieve their own understanding of the law of nature.</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">According to Sayadaw, the remarkable success of the Thabarwa Centre is explained simply when applying the paradigm of cause and effect. The historic Buddha (around 500 BC) taught that a good cause will have a good effect, while a bad cause will have a bad effect (Pa-Auk, 2008). Helping someone, for example, will, at some point in time, result in the donor of help being helped herself. Or, if one is abusive of others, he will find himself being abused at some point later on. Therefore, because Thabarwa Centre sets out to solve the problems of people, the problems of the centre will be solved, one by one.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">2 The history and development of the Thabarwa Centres</span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> All Thabarwa Centres were founded by Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara, who was born in Katha, Myanmar in 1969. After graduating from Yangon University with a degree in English, Venerable Sayadaw Ottamathara, at that time with his civil name Aung Ko Ko, opened his own business and spent the next few years managing it. He had to face problems with the business that he could not solve, which caused him much mental suffering. At that time, he determined to practice meditation very seriously. After three years of continuous meditation practice he attained insight knowledge about the ultimate truths of nature and abandoned his business and possessions, ordaining as a Buddhist monk in 2002, at age 33. In 2005 he developed “From Avijjā to Vijja” (From Ignorance to Wisdom), an office for free distribution of Dhamma books and audio recordings, on 38<sup>th</sup> Street in downtown Yangon. He also started to teach in a Dhamma hall in Yangon every morning (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Figure 1</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">).</span></div></span><span style="color: #003300; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="141" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/10c2fd0f-cd01-4948-bde5-16065881520f" style="color: #003300; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;" v:shapes="image14.jpg" width="110" /></div><a name="_Ref503644361" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Ref503644361" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><a name="_Ref503644361" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Figure </span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">1</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara, the founder of the Thabarwa Centres. Thabarwa Production, 2011.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He set up an impressive way to do things: he went very early in the morning from his monastery to the location on 38</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Street to teach. This was also an opportunity for people to offer breakfast to the monk, as supporting the life of a seeker of ultimate truth results in more understanding of the ultimate truth for the donor, at some time in the future. After breakfast Sayadaw would teach, and then leave for alms-round, in which his disciples would assist him. (Alms-round is the tradition of Buddha and his disciples who, having given up career and family life, walked through the streets or villages each morning, collecting in their bowls the cooked food offered to them by the villagers, which would sustain them until the next day.) Having shared his offerings with his disciples, Sayadaw would then spend the rest of the day going from place to place to give teaching where he had been invited, be it a hospital, a Dhamma hall, or in private homes, followed until late at night by his disciples. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In 2007, to give his disciples a place to stay consistently, Sayadaw established the 45</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Street Thabarwa Centre, which was at the top four floors of an eight-story apartment building. Because a monk cannot possess a house or building, according to the Buddhist monastic code, the centre was established under the name of Sayadaw’s disciple who had donated the money to buy it. Male and female meditators, monks and nuns could stay and practice meditation there, and follow Sayadaw for teaching, living mainly from his alms-round collection. But this situation was unsuitable for a monk according to the authorities of the country, as according to Theravada Buddhist monastic code, monks are not allowed to own property (DeGraff, 2013). In 2008 they decided to arrest him and force Sayadaw to disrobe on a set date. Sayadaw’s disciples warned him the day before the set date, but Sayadaw appeared unconcerned and asked them to all stay together and meditate at the 8</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> floor Dhamma hall of 45</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Street. That night the cyclone “Nilgiris” came and damaged so much of the country that the authorities gave up their plan. They just intimated Sayadaw to close the centre and leave it within three days. They determined he could still use the building in daytime but was not allowed to live there anymore. Fortunately, Sayadaw had a five-acre piece of land that had already been donated to him in 2006 by U Kyaw Aye, a retired military officer who admired Sayadaw for his free distribution of Dhamma books and recordings in the “Avijjā to Vijja” office.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Quickly, everyone moved to the new centre in Thanlyin, an hour drive from downtown Yangon. Thus, Thabarwa Nature Centre began in July 2008,</span><b style="font-size: 11pt;"> </b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">on a bare piece of land with nothing but bamboo structures. Today the centre comprises over 250 buildings, including both a four and six story hospital. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From its inception until now the centre has always welcomed anyone who sought refuge in the centre. Whenever someone in need appears, Sayadaw invites him or her to stay in the centre so that they will have a chance to hear the Dhamma and get help from him and his disciples. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;">Located on a private land that was officially recognized as a monastery in 2016, the centre has seen its population increase quickly, from about 300 in 2009 to nearly 3,400 residents in 2018. Initially the centre could cover only basic needs for residents, and even this was with difficulty. Today, Thabarwa Centre offers food and shelter to more than 3,000 people, including monks, nuns, meditators, rich, poor, children, orphans, elderly, infirm, blind, deaf, disabled, mental patients, chronically and terminally ill (including Tuberculosis and AIDS patients), homeless, abandoned and neglected individuals, alcoholics, drug addicts, or anyone facing any kind of social or financial difficulties. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;">Some people come to the centre because they want to do good deeds practically. Also, everyone in need is received equitably, with open arms, and is provided with basic necessities, free medical care, and free education for children. In this way people can concentrate on the pursuit and realization of Dhamma, or the deep understanding of the ultimate truth, fulfilling both physical and spiritual development. When one’s basic needs are satisfied, he or she has the freedom or possibility to explore ultimate reality. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 11.25pt;">On the event of death, the centre performs the last funeral rites for residents. Over 1,000 people have died in the centre since 2008.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Today, within the immense community of the main Thabarwa centre operates another diverse group of people, local and international volunteers. They come to participate in the many activities that keep the centre running, from eldercare or nursing, rendering medical treatments to the elderly and infirm, performing physiotherapy exercises with patients, teaching English or IT, supervising artistic activities with kids, helping in any of the several kitchens in the centre, cleaning the centre campus, general maintenance or machine repair, just to name a few. If they wish, volunteers can also focus solely on activities for spiritual development such as studying Buddhist literature or practicing Vipassana (insight) meditation.</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Two Dhamma hospitals have now been created and three more are in plan for different locations in Myanmar. The main centre also has four small intensive care units and a dental clinic (see </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Figure 3</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">). </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="19" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="Gruppieren_x0020_15 Textfeld_x0020_11" width="83" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="475" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/dc4364e2-9c8d-4e8a-98fc-e81bb28943b8" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="Grafik_x0020_9" width="360" /></div><a name="_Ref503645065" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Ref503645065" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><a name="_Ref503645065" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Figure </span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">2</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;">a: Map of the locations of all Thabarwa Centres in Myanmar as of 2017, including names of detailed locations. Image source: Google.</span></div><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="20" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;" v:shapes="Gruppieren_x0020_19 Textfeld_x0020_14" width="73" /></div><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img height="517" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/fbe99cd2-f903-4c9f-9b33-cab688e5d2f2" v:shapes="Grafik_x0020_12" width="243" /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img height="518" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/4e092dd4-b444-4f92-a084-2cf3190edec0" v:shapes="Grafik_x0020_17" width="128" /></span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;">Figure 2</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;">b: Detailed map of the locations of Thabarwa Centres in Myanmar as of 2017, including names of detailed locations. Image source: Google MyMaps.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> When Sayadaw first established the Thanlyin centre there was a small village nearby where he would sometimes go for alms-round. The villagers were having difficulty to grow rice from the paddy fields. They asked Sayadaw to buy their land because they could not use it and needed money. Sayadaw bought the land to help them, with the idea of building residences for his disciples. However, he decided instead to offer the land to needy people. This was the beginning of the first Goodwill Village in 2012 (see </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Figure 2</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">). Anyone who spent a seven-day meditation course in the centre could get a 15 feet square piece of land to build his home and use with his family without charge. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="219" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/24567987-86a2-4a54-be42-ef6ab0fccef3" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="image6.jpg" width="359" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="240" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/d7504dfe-77f7-4d41-bca5-64413b67e1a1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4" width="360" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="218" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/dcf7c6d5-c405-4551-bd75-326e5d63f2a6" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="image8.jpg" width="360" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="239" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/39eaeeeb-eca1-4042-a013-13fda3a8a858" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="image7.jpg" width="360" /></div><a name="_Ref503646298" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Ref503646298" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;"></a><a name="_Ref503646298" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Figure </span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">3</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Photos of the 15 feet village (or “Goodwill Village”). Image source: first author.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From flooded paddy fields Sayadaw managed to create roads, bridges, and a drainage system using donated funds. Within a couple of years, a muddy field of about 30 acres became a highly populated and organized village. Now, where it was once difficult to reach even by walking, trucks can easily pass and necessary items can be imported. Although this village is not a meditation centre, it is also not just a village. It is a new generation of society on a free-of-charge basis. Today the village includes over 2000 families (more than 10,000 people), a school with over 1,000 students, a market, drinking water system, public toilets and showers. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">According to Sayadaw, the bad situations that drove these people to look for land in the “Fifteen Feet” Village were the result of not doing good deeds. Sayadaw requested them to listen to Dhamma and practice meditation for seven days before taking their piece of land so that they could improve their karma. Today this village is about 36 acres. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw established another village starting in 2014 in Hlegu, outside Yangon, on 180 acres. That village now has a Meditation Hall, school, playground, market, cement roads and lanes, bridges, monsoon drains, electricity, artesian wells, </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">drinking water purifiers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, public toilets, bathrooms, a forest meditation centre, hostels for meditators, an animal sanctuary, and a Dhamma hospital is under construction. Experience with the establishment of the Goodwill Village in Thanlyin allowed for many improvements, upgrades and more efficient development of the new village.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In 2015 Sayadaw also opened the “Bank of Meritorious Deeds,” locations in Upper Myanmar that provide emergency assistance and response services to accident victims on highways, and offer support to those displaced by natural or man-made disasters. He has also begun a project for the </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">conservation of wildlife and forests </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in Myanmar, and for assisting in rebuilding the lives of former militants and army rebels in that area.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw is continuously working to open Dhamma hospitals, schools, drug rehabilitation centres and animal sanctuaries, as well as offering support to struggling monasteries, nunneries and orphanages across the country. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dhamma Hospitals, the brainchild of Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara, are a careful and proper integration of the art of medical science with the art of Dhamma. At the Thabarwa Dhamma Hospitals, located inside the meditation centre or Goodwill village compound, anyone, including the elderly, infirm and poor are able to stay until the end of their lives with a peaceful mind, with their medical care provided free of charge. Patients receive the medical attention they need, listen to Dhamma teachings, meditate together regularly, and perform other volunteer works as they can. In this way they are not simply patients but also meditators and volunteers. They get to see those around them doing good deeds continuously as well, which uplifts their minds and brings them peace. In this manner they detach from their lives as patients and come to live and die without fear and worry. They have the opportunity to pay attention to dhamma or ultimate truths, instead of life as a patient.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">3 “Doing limitless good deeds” in a rough real-world environment</span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When given continuous opportunities to help others, people start to take them, and improve themselves. Though it might seem as if opportunities are always available in the society for helping people and doing good deeds, with so many people suffering in the world, it is often not easy to actually do them. Generally, it is our nature to retreat to our homes and apartments, to our work schedules and family affairs, and therefore we spend the great majority of our time caring for ourselves and our families only, or maybe a few close friends. But Thabarwa Centre brings the opportunity to help all kinds of people, twenty-four hours a day. In the centre you cannot go far, or be awake for long, before encountering someone in front of you who could benefit from your assistance, and in the centre, you can find the support necessary to provide what they need. This is the result of Sayadaw’s intent to allow anyone to the centre who needs help, welcoming them openly, without disapproval, along with those who wish to help. In the centre, those who wish to help are not distracted by whatever else a busy day might hold, because helping people </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">is</i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the busy day. It is totally self-driven, and no one will reprimand you for doing nothing, or necessarily commend you for doing a lot. So, you get to see your own motivations, your own mind, and your own habits. There are no deadlines, only ideas and figuring out how to implement them. It is free. It is growing naturally like a forest, in which the flora and fauna come into balance by way of cause and effect, not by any external support or intervention. Sayadaw just put together the people who need help with people who want to help. People can do as little or as much as they please, and still eat and stay for free. The atmosphere is so relaxed, the mind begins to release itself from the tight grasp of obligations and societal expectations.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> In a recent dhamma talk (Ottamathara, 2017a), Sayadaw explained, “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Meditation centres are like us, the monks. They are constructed by the donations of the people. Some people will donate land, some will donate money, or some will donate labour. Some will donate their life by coming to stay at the centre. So all the donations together will make a complete meditation centre. Thanlyin Thabarwa Centre is like that. It is complete with need and support, supply and demand. Some people want to meditate, so they will go to the centre, and some monks, nuns or other people want to teach meditation, so they will come to the centre. And then at the centre they will meet and they will work together. Some people want to donate and some people need help, so those people will meet at the centre and then they can work together. Some people are sick, but they don’t have enough money for medical treatment, and some doctors want to use their skilfulness for the patients, to do good deeds, so they meet at the centre. Then they can do good deeds. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> “The essence of a meditation centre or meditator is to rely on doing good deeds. You may not be able to teach meditation, but you may be able to learn meditation. You may not be able to donate money, but you may be able to volunteer. When all the donations are combined, there will be a complete meditation centre. In this way people can be alive, can survive, without money, without insurance, without their own land, without their own home, without their own food. Now in Thabarwa Centre in Thanlyin there are altogether 3,000 people who can survive by doing good deeds as much as they can.” </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">(Ottamathara, 2017b)</span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw leads his disciples by example. He continually goes beyond limits to do wholesome deeds. He encourages and inspires people to work continuously, consistently and diligently on doing good deeds until they reach the destination of real wisdom.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instead of confronting and solving problems directly by using traditional methods, he guides those coming to Thabarwa Centre with health, social and financial problems to solve those problems with the aid of dhamma (meditation practice of mindfulness, right understanding and detachment). </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> In Vietnam in 2014, Sayadaw mentioned that “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 11pt;">all our physical and mental problems come from not knowing the truth. That’s why compassion should not be for the person, not for the poor people, not for the animals, but for their wrong understanding or wrong view. Compassion should be for wrong view. I’m helping various kinds of people who are in need, including meditators, with compassion, not for him, not for her, but for her ignorance, for the ignorance and wrong understanding in him or her. If someone sees from the side of a human, they cannot understand this. They may understand that I have pity for old aged and patients, that I am helping people who are in need. In fact, I am helping them to be free from wrong view. They may be educated or not, healthy or not, rich or not. I’m not interested in their situation. I am interested in whether they are free from wrong view and attachment or not</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;">.” (Ottamathara, 2014)</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">By providing food, shelter, medical care and education, Thabarwa Centre gives residents the opportunity to focus on enhancing their power of right understanding by listening to dhamma teachings, practicing insight meditation and performing good deeds as much as possible. As their situations improve, people gradually come to realise that their problems were solved due to the merits they gained doing various good deeds at Thabarwa Centre.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw has been proving to many people that it is possible to use life for doing good deeds only. If merit-making tasks were impossible to fulfil, he would not have been able to establish dozens of Thabarwa Centres, sanctuaries that operate continuously for the benefit of thousands.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the past the centre faced many difficulties and ran on very limited funds. B</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">ecause of the lack of ability to care for everyone, it was first an exclusive area for a small group of people<i>. </i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">But Sayadaw never gave up his work and continued to do good deeds for anyone in need as he could. The situation improved as Sayadaw’s endeavours became more publicized, due to the loosening of media control in Myanmar in 2014, and even more so after the democratic elections in November, 2015. More individuals and groups, from far and near, including those from foreign countries, started visiting the main Thabarwa Centre in Thanlyin. They came to learn Dhamma teachings, support Sayadaw’s mission, help and participate in greater and greater good deeds. With a significant increase in donations, the centre became able to assist more people in various ways and find solutions to countless problems that society had been unable to handle. For example, the centre was able to offer housing to alcoholics and drug addicts whose families were being torn apart by substance abuse, save the lives of elderly and disabled people who were stuck at home alone, and provide places for single expectant mothers. Sayadaw also solved the problems of meditators by offering a place to continue a life of practice uninterruptedly, without financial concerns. Additionally, hundreds of animals who would have been slaughtered, homeless, or sold to circuses or other abusive situations have been provided a shelter. The centre is now able to assist and help the general public, individuals, families, societies and organisations who are facing a broad range of difficulties. </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> When he visits somewhere to give teaching, the local people are often inspired by Sayadaw’s actions and donate land and finances to his cause, allowing him to open new centres. When he establishes a new centre, the word spreads and many people in the area come forward to get involved. (See </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Figure 3</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Figure 4</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">By seeing Sayadaw’s character of selflessness, compassion and abandoning power, people are willing to follow his way of doing limitless good deeds for greater and greater numbers of people. This is how Sayadaw leads meditators, disciples and devotees by example, encouraging them in a relay of limitless good deeds.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ignoring his own health condition, the weather, poor roads and other hardships, Sayadaw travels to all parts of Myanmar and abroad, reaching ever greater numbers of people. In this way, people follow his footsteps in being able to transform ignorance to knowledge, greed to detachment, hatred to compassion, and selfishness to selflessness. This is his great aim and mission for humankind.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">4 Mindfulness and detachment as fundamental guidelines in Thabarwa Centre</span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This chapter deals with the fundamental principles for the social functions of Thabarwa Centre. These fundamentals are described in the following publications:</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“The Practice of detachment” (Ottamathara, 2013)</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Mindfulness with detachment” (Ottamathara, 2014)</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“The Teachings of Thabarwa Sayadaw” (Ottamathara, 2015)</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Detachment meditation in four steps” (Ottamathara, 2016a)</span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Dhamma elections” (Ottamathara, 2016b)</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Meditation, Sayadaw says, is mainly concerned with the mind. Mindfulness and detachment are the essential aspects of meditation. The first object to be mindful of is our self, rather than others. We may be young or old, healthy or sick, male or female. Our self is the most basic object of mindfulness (Silananda, 1990). The more we are mindful of our self, the more we can detach from others. Our self and others are to use, know, and experience only, without rejection or attachment. If there is rejecting, there will also be attaching. If there is attaching there will also be rejecting. As per habit, the mind only knows how to react with one of these two extremes of attaching (welcoming, liking, wanting) or rejecting (aversion, rejecting, disliking, refusing) (Dhammananda, 1996). The alternative option the Buddha discovered is the middle way, or the action of knowing, experiencing or using only, without attaching or rejecting (Thanissaro, 2015).</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There are physical, verbal and mental actions. These are the causes we are always making. The present condition of our life, our body and mind, is the result of the causes we have done before and those we are doing now (Pa-Auk, 2003). Each of our physical, verbal and mental actions is teaching us, “This is right, or, this is wrong”. If we are not mindful of our self we cannot understand this law of cause and effect, or action and reaction. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Both our intentional and habitual actions are the causes of our present condition (Silananda, 1993). Good experiences are caused by right or good actions. Bad experiences are caused by wrong or bad actions. If we know the causes of good and bad experiences, we can change a situation easily (Silananda, 2004). </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To be mindful of our self as opposed to others is the most basic level of mindfulness practice. It will also help us to detach from others. If we are not mindful of our self, we may be mindful of others, which means we are relying on others or the actions of others. We should rely on our self and our own actions. The practice of mindfulness and detachment is the way to correct our habitual mistakes. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The second object of mindfulness is to know the present happening of our body and mind. By the practice of mindfulness within our body and mind, we will be able to detach from our habitual perceptions of our self. If we do not meditate, we will take care of only the exterior of our self. Fat or thin, white or black, man or woman, all these are different only in appearance. The present happening of our bodies and minds is not much different from one to another (Narada, 1970). </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Desire to be fat or thin, white or black, young or old, man or woman, all these are because of our own attachments. Because of attachments to one side, we may reject the other side. Because of rejecting one side, we may attach to the other. The mind should be free from desire for like, dislike, and ignorance. Like, dislike and ignorance are mental diseases. If we like, dislike, and misunderstand that something or someone is true, the mind will never be healthy. The practice of mindfulness can make the mind stable and healthy. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We are always using the mind. The mind should be stable and pure. The mind should be healthy and wealthy. That is the most important for everyone. There are many young, educated, rich and healthy men and women. But if their minds are not healthy and wealthy, their lives are useless for others. If the mind is healthy and wealthy, the body may be sick or old or poor or uneducated. The life will be useful for the others. The wealth and health of the mind is more important than the body. As we take care of the health and wealth of the body, we should also always be mindful to have a healthy and wealthy mind, or stable and pure mind. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If we are mindful of our self, we can detach from the others. If we are mindful of the present action and happening of our body and mind, we may be able to detach from our self. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The last and most important object of mindfulness is the present moment. The present moment is limitless. This life, this place, this year, this month, this day, this hour, this minute, this second are not the present moment. The present moment is immeasurable, a very short time (Bodhi, 2006). We can accept the limited time, therefore we attach to limit, or something or someone. To detach from limited time, we should accept limitless time, or present moment time. So be mindful within our self at the present moment.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There will be many actions and happenings within our self. We should be mindful of the most obvious one. Something is obvious because of ignorance. If we are able to be mindful enough, that obvious thing will disappear. Then another one will be obvious. So, we should be mindful again and again until whatever it is disappears, hot or cold, still or movement, good or bad, knowing or not knowing. All these are just temporary. Nothing is forever. It will come and it will go. It will disappear as soon as it appears. That’s the nature of impermanence. No one creates or stops that impermanent nature. In fact, there is no I, no you, no mine, no yours, no something, no someone, no living beings or non-living beings, no life, no death, just ever new impermanent nature. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The truth is the same everywhere, every time, with everyone. We should not forget the truth. The practice of mindfulness and detachment are the way to understand the truth. The truth is also neither for rejecting nor attaching – to use only. If we do not understand the truth, we will use just created truths, which are living and non-living beings. We will live and die in the created world. We will misunderstand that we are living beings, or man or woman. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The practice of mindfulness is to be doing, using, knowing, and experiencing only without attachment. If we are not mindful, we are doing, using, knowing, and experiencing with attachment.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">5 An example for a meditation in a Thabarwa Centre</span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw Ottamathara’s centre is the place for people to improve their quality. Although Thabarwa Centre is fulfilling the physical and mental needs of people, this is not the centre’s final aim. Once people’s basic needs are met, they are free to do good deeds for ridding the mind of the deepest defilements of greed, anger and delusion. Good deeds are to do only, without attachment or rejection of what is happening, and without the misunderstanding of “I” or “you”. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Doing only is not the action of something or someone. It is the action that takes place when there is no attachment to the idea of something or someone. We need to do good deeds and our daily activities without attachment. That means doing them because it is what should be done, not because “I” am doing good, or “I” am a good person. Action taken with the notion that there is “I” or “you”, something or someone, is acting from our intelligence. It is not doing only. It is sure we don’t know the whole truth of nature with our limited, created intelligence.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">In fact, mind and matter are appearing and disappearing moment to moment (Karunadasa, 1989). This is the natural process of ever new impermanent nature. Every moment, mind and matter appear, completely new, and then disappear. The mind and matter appearing in this moment are therefore not the same as those that were existing in the previous moment, or the same that will appear in the next moment. This reality prohibits the existence of a lasting entity that carries on moment to moment (Silananda, 2008). Given the reality that there is no lasting entity in what we refer to as “I” or “you”, we need not worry about our self, but about the actions we are performing, each of which will give any number of effects.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">Thabarwa Centre is based on doing action according to the nature of no “something”, no “someone”, and teaches people how to do good action based on this natural law. “In the society,” Sayadaw said recently, “many young, healthy, and educated people are busy for money, fame or authority. If they are busy doing good deeds and helping the people in need, the greatest problems of the society will be solved. Education, business, and medicine are not the complete way of solving problems and inconveniences. Mindfulness of the truth and practicing in the right way are the complete way of doing good deeds.” (Ottamathara, 2017a) Practicing in the right way means contemplating with the right understanding of non-self, or mindfulness and detachment. There should be mindfulness of nature as it is happening, that is, of body and mind, or of the present moment. There should be detachment from the experience as mine, or, experiencing only. Fulfilling other people’s desires will naturally fulfil our own desires, because of cause and effect. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">6 The communication strategy of the Thabarwa Centres </span></b></div></b><b style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">In an interview from October, 2017 Sayadaw explained, “Social media is necessary for this modern age. That’s why it has developed very quickly. I understand we cannot reject the media. The new generation is skilful in using social media, so I try to use it to do good deeds. Not only for me, but also for all, especially the new generation. I try to use social media to do good deeds widely, including Dhamma teaching online, answering questions, and sharing experiences. But there is also a side effect, which is strong attachment to using social media. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">“It is difficult to use social media in our country because it is very new here. Most people are not skilful in using it, which is why we have to face a lot of side effects, because of misleading messages put out by unskilful reporters or Facebook users. I allow the reporters because I understand I cannot reject the media, and it is difficult to control it. So, I have to be patient in using the media as a tool to do all kinds of good deeds. Now we are much more able to use social media than before.” (Ottamathara, 2017a)</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">The centre uses all kinds of media available to link the centres across Myanmar and abroad. The centres are not working individually but as one force resulting from a collection of good deeds as well as individual abandoning. There are many examples of the worldwide collaboration involved at any time by Thabarwa volunteers for helping each other, sharing knowledge or skills, helping in translation, solving people’s material or social problems around the world, assisting near death patients at their last moments via internet, etc. At any time of day, anyone can listen to or see Sayadaw’s teachings or actions. Many people in the world become involved in that process with their skills or materials. Those present with Sayadaw create video or audio recordings, share them globally, and others take those recordings to edit, transcribe, translate and share whatever material is produced within minutes or hours of the event. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">One good example of this kind of process involved a foreign mental patient who was staying in the Thanlyin centre. When he had an urgent problem, one of his main caregivers, who was out of the country, connected with the leaders of the centre, with those staying near him, and with his relatives and friends in his own country, creating a team involved in finding complete answers to his material needs, translators, emotional support and guidance. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 15pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 15pt;">Sayadaw also mentioned in reference to communication strategies that “meditation, or mindfulness and detachment without limit or attachment, is necessary for all, everyone, everywhere, all the time. That’s why it is suitable to do this kind of work. Doing this can make many people understand the truth, and do good deeds. What I understand about science is that it’s the most powerful method or weapon to destroy ignorance, and for knowing the truth of worldly affairs; it cannot be compared with mindfulness and detachment, but if we speak about worldly affairs, science is one of the most effective techniques for destroying ignorance, so it is good. I am also trying to destroy ignorance. I try to share books, and share through the internet, in every language. I am trying to use all media, languages, people and places to spread the knowledge and practice about the truth. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“Science has limits, because it relies on modern technology. For the practice of mindfulness, we need to emphasize our own mind. Mind is the most advanced weapon. If we can study our mind we are complete. We can know many things.” </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">According to Sayadaw, “We have to learn everything in the society to know the truth of everything and everyone, so if we are interested in science we need to know the incompleteness or nothingness of science. In this way we may be able to detach from science and scientists. Only when we are able to detach from all living beings and non-living beings we can associate with all living beings and non-living beings, including through business, politics, philosophy, and science. All these practices are incomplete, not something, just nothing. This is the truth of everything and everyone. Only when we are able to know that truth can we understand the original truth, which is impermanent nature and permanent nature. This is the complete or right conclusion for everyone, everything or every action and every practice. That’s all.”</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="75" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/1cd7345f-173f-4ca4-b1f2-db9a03277d1a" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;" v:shapes="Grafik_x0020_21" width="98" /></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><img height="198" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/e277ca00-f58f-450b-90cd-8162a6801147" v:shapes="Grafik_x0020_20" width="360" /></span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div></span><a name="_Ref503648235" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Ref503648235" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"></a><a name="_Ref503648235" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Figure </span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">4</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><i style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 9pt;">: World map including the first five Thabarwa Centres outside Myanmar. More are planned in 2018 such as Virginia, USA,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 9pt;">Germany, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, and Japan. image source: Google Maps and authors.</span></i></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Conclusions: Applicability in a globalised world</span></b></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The first Thabarwa Centre, which started with Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara and a handful of followers to abandon society’s traditional way of solving problems, including the problems of meditation, has developed into a multinational effort of solving problems by doing good deeds. As day by day more people learn about the centre, come to visit, make donations and volunteer, the word about the successful outcomes of doing good deeds spreads further and further. Thousands of lives have improved as a result of the work going on in Thabarwa Centre. The centre is a combination of theory and practice. One can learn the theory about mindfulness and detachment, and then put it into practice by fulfilling the needs and desires of others day by day.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayadaw will not stop his work of creating new centres throughout the world, with the help of all those interested in doing good deeds. He always encourages people to stay in the centres, because they are already established as places doing the work of good deeds full time. In our personal lives it is difficult to find the way to fully dedicate ourselves to doing good deeds continuously. And doing good deeds continuously is the way to solve all problems, down to the most subtle problems of misunderstanding ourselves and the truth of birth, aging, sickness and death. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>As Sayadaw explains: “Ever since I came to realise that practicing meditation or contemplating the truth is vital for everybody, every circumstance, every time and place, I accepted anyone who came seeking refuge in Thabarwa Centre”. </span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">BIOGRAPHIES</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sayalay Khema Cari (“Sayalay” is the title given to nuns in Myanmar. It is used before the name to show respect and to convey that she is a nun, not a lay person), in search of the solution to unsatisfactoriness, travelled to Asia at the age of 28, where she encountered the practice of Vipassana meditation. She ordained as a Theravada Buddhist nun temporarily in Myanmar, then spent three years in India. In February, 2010, she came back to Myanmar and ordained permanently, spending time in meditation centres and in a nun school in Sagine Division. After her respected teacher passed away in 2011, she met with Sayadaw Ottamathara in 2012, and has been happily following and assisting him in his centre in Yangon and all over the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sayalay Aloka Nani started practicing meditation in 2008 at age 23, under the guidance of Satya Narayan Goenka, a meditation teacher from Myanmar. In 2012 she left her home in the USA to meet Mr. Goenka. After several months in Myanmar she came across some written material about Sayadaw Ottamathara and Thabarwa Centre, and went to meet Sayadaw in Thanlyin, outside Yangon. She soon followed Sayadaw to Vietnam for a meditation retreat and ordained as a nun there. She returned to Myanmar and stayed on in Thabarwa Centre for three years, and attended one year at the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University in Yangon. 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Inward Path, Penang, Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ottamathara, S. (2014) Mindfulness with Detachment. 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(2017a) Audio recording, Floyd County, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ottamathara, S. (2014) Audio Recording, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ottamathara, S. (2017b) Audio Recording, Lake Elsinore, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Silananda, S. (1990), The Four Foundations of Mindfulness.Wisdom Publications, Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Silananda, S. (1993) Paticca Samuppada. Selangor Buddhist Vipassana Meditation Society, Selangor, Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Silananda, S. (2004) A Collection of Dhamma Talks. Selangor Buddhist Vipassana Meditation Society, Selangor, Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Silananda, S. (2008) The Fundamentals of Buddhism. Inward Path Publisher, Penang, Malaysia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sugunasiri, Suwanda H. J. (2005) Pariyatti, patipatti and pativedha [Theory, Praxis and Insight]. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies, 1: 2-3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sumedho, A. (2012) Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless. Amaravati Publications, Herfordshire, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0.0001pt 42.55pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -42.55pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thabarwa (2018), website of the Thabarwa Centre. Yangon, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">www.thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.thabarwa.org/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">www.thabarwa.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, last accessed on 15 January 2018.<u><span style="color: #0563c1;"></span></u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 15pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="applewebdata://9D9FCFC5-FC16-421C-89B3-873BDB3FB8D2#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">In Buddhism, the term “right” understanding refers to the truth of non-self, that there is no permanent entity that carries on through time but just the nature in constant change or evolution. It is also used to explain the concept of not attaching nor rejecting phenomena, but being in the middle way, or at point of equanimity with them, which Sayadaw describes as using, knowing, doing and experiencing only. Right Understanding also understands the Four Noble Truths, or the Buddha’s explanation of the laws governing all reality, that there is stress, a cause of stress, an ending of stress, and a path leading to the ending of stress. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-9968248904825097452023-12-15T05:33:00.000+08:002023-12-19T04:25:25.489+08:00Peace Letter to Worldwide Leaders March 18, 2022<p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Peace Letter to Worldwide Leaders, Especially Russia, Ukraine, United States and China | </span></span></i><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">March 18, 2022</span></span></i></div></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"> We, the Eternal Freedom & Peace Group (EFP) led by meditation master and founder of the Thabarwa Meditation Centers worldwide, Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara, sincerely wish that the leaders worldwide can work not only for their own benefit and the benefit of their own people, but also for the benefit of those from other countries and the people of the whole world.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> We would like to contribute to the peace process in a way that reduces attachment to a lack of peace by using the power of collective good deeds in areas where chaos reigns. We will help those affected by disaster and disaster-stricken countries, including Ukraine, to become truly neutral and peaceful countries by establishing Thabarwa Centers and dhamma hospitals.</span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"> Peace can be achieved as much as we deeply understand and accept the negative effects of non-peace.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">By learning the lessons from non-peace, we can change from non-peace to peace.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Relying on authority, laws and weapons is unsafe for the lives of people in the present and future. We get back the effects from our actions of past and present. All living beings at the present are getting back what they did to others in the past as the results of their deeds. The person is getting back what he did to others in the past. Only by relying on the weapons of Dana (giving), Sila (virtue) and Bhavana (mental cultivation) can one be free from wrongdoing and the resulting misfortune, in both the present and future.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"> Even if you do not commit unwholesome deeds in this life, the debt of the bad deeds done in the past must be repaid.</div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">There’s still debt to be paid for what you’ve done in the past, even if you’re not doing bad things now. </div></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">The person who breaks the law must pay according to the law. The person who kills someone must go to jail. So also, killing someone in the past will kill us in the present. This is the law of Karma. If we get success, long life and good health, it is because of good deeds we’ve done in the past and at the present. This is the law of Karma. We should try to use both rules and regulations and also the law of Karma. </div></span></span></span></h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">S</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">ayadaw Ashin Ottamathara</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Eternal Freedom & Peace (EFP)</span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">18 Mar 2022 New York</div></span></span></h4><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Notes for peace letter (March 27, 11:30 pm)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The leaders of the world have the ability to take care of themselves, to work for their own life, to be well known around the whole world. So also they should use this ability for all the people of the world who know about them.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">These world leaders have the ability to work for the development of their own country. So also they should use their ability for the development of the other countries of the whole world. Sayadaw wants them to have right understanding like this. They are connected not only with the people of their own country but with all the people of the world who know about them. That’s why they should think for the others, and work for the benefit of all others. Because of being a well known leader of the world, they have the ability to influence the whole world. Therefore they should use their ability not only for their own country but also the whole world. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We will help a country in danger to be neutral and peaceful by using efp. There will be Thabarwa Centers and Dhamma Hospitals in Ukraine to do good deeds continuously together with the local people. In this way we are sure to reduce attachment to non-peace, and on the other hand we will get peace of body and mind. This is the method we will use to get success together.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From our own experience or suffering, we can learn the cause of suffering. The more we know about the cause of suffering clearly, there will be less suffering for sure. The more we experience about non-peace, the more we can learn the cause and the side effects of non-peace.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The more we understand clearly about it there will be more peace for sure. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From experience of non-peace we can find out the cause of non-peace. In this way we can detach from the suffering of non peace. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Suffering misfortune is caused by bad kamma done in the past. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The person who does bad at the present is sure to suffer later from what he did, in the same way as he did. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">By relying on rank, power, laws and weapons, no one is safe from making mistakes or being in danger. By doing good deeds we can be free from mistakes and danger at the present and future. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ukraine is facing many problems now concerned with the war with Russia. For efp organization, we will give help for free or merits to Ukraine and similar countries for them to be neutral, peaceful countries.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ukraine is facing many troubles because of the war. That’s why efp wants to help them be neutral and peaceful. Ukraine can’t stand on its own as neutral and peaceful country, so it needs help from a neutral, peaceful organization.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></span><p></p>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-44944014485869716522023-09-01T21:11:00.024+08:002023-09-21T05:48:17.120+08:00Thabarwa - Hanoi Retreat - [3 Months Aug - Nov 2023 ]<p><br /></p><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://app.box.com/s/w01jv6tfb1v9ccu15l2uh3v29d7nnf10" target="_blank">Download some of the teachings</a>.</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVo9nbXY7IvQ10LYAhFDom90P6RsQ-Iycg3lRqu85IGfQ9ZUGmVPivPHBGth47LFEYNPAAwUqblkCOfLM7jH4n0Od6yz9qbIwN-V_nyNUjYMcFAhcHeUH1xTmtX_VlA8d1F6ts1IL7A-HNwEPuUxKKDqYTb-pral2R7NK4TgX2TRs8Kdp3EinHBQcSYsA/s1080/Hanoi%20Retreat%203%20Months%20Aug%20%E2%80%93%20Nov%202033.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVo9nbXY7IvQ10LYAhFDom90P6RsQ-Iycg3lRqu85IGfQ9ZUGmVPivPHBGth47LFEYNPAAwUqblkCOfLM7jH4n0Od6yz9qbIwN-V_nyNUjYMcFAhcHeUH1xTmtX_VlA8d1F6ts1IL7A-HNwEPuUxKKDqYTb-pral2R7NK4TgX2TRs8Kdp3EinHBQcSYsA/w467-h487/Hanoi%20Retreat%203%20Months%20Aug%20%E2%80%93%20Nov%202033.png" width="467" /></a></div></div>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-31516967830573184632019-05-19T23:07:00.006+08:002023-11-07T05:30:56.431+08:00Thabarwa Meritorious Book Publishing - Sayadaw Teaching Book 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9PU8rtLHzrLk6j2DnU7_EoC9GVjW_SBjdF1SHrirGPiPDfGw6tdFbDKweDFvHAKJTyb2jBI65J4kq-74lR1xdr8dNtBm7IGvZfI-F4pg_-iZSk82bzW3S7sK8jCBGCHH7LKccVEsOdqMDJEnc5PZUX2o-Q8l1mjFwd1Qy-NXh2Njwa3qX7wFA4ZuQ74/s498/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="498" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9PU8rtLHzrLk6j2DnU7_EoC9GVjW_SBjdF1SHrirGPiPDfGw6tdFbDKweDFvHAKJTyb2jBI65J4kq-74lR1xdr8dNtBm7IGvZfI-F4pg_-iZSk82bzW3S7sK8jCBGCHH7LKccVEsOdqMDJEnc5PZUX2o-Q8l1mjFwd1Qy-NXh2Njwa3qX7wFA4ZuQ74/w400-h151/1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">One of the greatest good deeds of Thabarwa: </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">Free publication of Dhamma books, DVD, and more for all.</span></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #374151; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #374151; font-family: arial;">We are just printing last book of Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara.</span></div>
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-38796672805010885962019-03-11T17:59:00.003+08:002019-03-11T17:59:42.214+08:00[PDF] The Thabarwa centres – a mindful foresight strategyWithin the frame of globalisation and the strive for future modes of living in a global society, this article describes the development of the Thabarwa Meditation Centres, which started in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2007. It explains the aim of the centres, their mode of operation and their organisational structure, based on the centres’ main paradigms. To understand their stunning growth and success, it is crucial to perceive how they bring their members to understand what is called the ‘law of cause and effect’ concerning everyone’s actions.<br />
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Once a person understands this law of cause and effect, one can use it to transform his or her life. A Thabarwa centre is the place where any person can abandon creating causes for suffering (understood in the Buddhist sense) and instead make causes for good results.<br />
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This article describes how the Thabarwa centres are answering the needs of society on material and spiritual levels by offering free food, housing, medical care, education and meditation guidance to everyone that arrives in the centre.<br />
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Download the PDF here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WCuaBLXT7oHa0x6HkU5_gUmy6B6RMGqv" target="_blank">Science Article in PDF</a>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-72216271497399036342019-02-05T00:49:00.004+08:002019-02-05T00:49:49.590+08:00Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara - ALMS USA Feb. 2019Here is a video of Sayadaw Ashin Ottamathara doing an ALMS round in California in February 2018:
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-43090030321846638212018-08-09T17:32:00.000+08:002018-08-09T17:32:32.513+08:00What 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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."
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What does Doing-Only mean? (People misunderstand it as non-caring.)</h2>
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"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."
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" 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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."
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Sayadaw, I think westerners can't understand what it means to suffer happiness.<br />
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"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."
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Feeling is just feeling but In English suffering means something negative.<br />
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"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."<br />
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<br />Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-17401834185467640272018-07-19T10:16:00.000+08:002020-01-02T23:47:30.054+08:00Ouverture de l'association 'Thabarwa Nature Centre France'Bonjour à toutes et à tous,<br />
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Nombreux sont ceux qui souhaitent que Sayardaw Ashin Ottamathara ouvre Thabarwa Nature Centre France (TNC France) .<br />
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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.<br />
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Vous trouvez ci-joint les participants de TNC France:
(merci de me signaler SVP les personnes désirant s' ajouter)<br />
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1) Jean Batiste (Paris)<br />
2) Theingi yadanar Hmoon(Paris)<br />
3) Ko Ko Zaw (Paris)<br />
4) Morgan<br />
5)Su Myat Win (Langres)<br />
6) Daw Thike Kyaw Shin (Mulhouse)<br />
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Cordialement
Theingi<br />
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Contact :<br />
tnc.france@gmail.com
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-78122047262338097362018-06-14T17:57:00.001+08:002019-07-11T11:10:46.953+08:00ProjectsWhatever 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.<br />
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Here you can find a non exhaustive list of upcoming projects:<br />
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<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#animalShelter">Animal shelter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#biogasImplants">Biogas implants</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#drainwatercover">Drain water cover</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#ecoProjects">Eco projects</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#expectingWomenAndNewborn">Expecting women and newborn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#freeFromDrug">Free from drug</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#freeFromTrash">Free from trash</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#hlegu">Hlegu</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#mediaMeritBank">Media merit bank</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#multiEducationalUniversity">Multi educational university</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#recycling">Recycling/Waste management</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#unitedLandDonation">United land donation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thabarwa-nmc.blogspot.com/2018/06/projects.html#waterTreatmentSystem">Water Treatment system</a></li>
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Animal shelter</h2>
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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. <br />
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Currently, there is no electricity which is slowing down everything and increase all the costs.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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?<br />
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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.
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Material : biogas implant could be acquired by the center once the project is clearly defined and funds available.<br />
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Skills needed: experienced people with such implants and in similar situation or ready to take the situation in hand at the beginning. <br />
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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.
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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.<br />
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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.
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.
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Myanmar is opening recently and lacking of knowledge and technology about self sustainable solutions, Eco-farming projects, recycling factories and others environment issues.<br />
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The center has a lot of empty land and is ready to welcome any initiative about this problematic.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.
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manpower, time, energy, if possible experience and knowledge in this concern<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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)
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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...<br />
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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. <br />
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'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.<br />
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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.😇🤗<br />
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Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu !
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Here is the link to read online the book :
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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. <br />
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We need long term patient teachers, students and workers for the infrastructures.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sayadaw Ottamathara makes the rubbish </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br />
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Everybody knows how to save money on your bank account but we never think about saving merits.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Bank transfert to:<br />
- TNC Thailand - Kasikorn Bank - No 041-3-43522-6 - Mrs Kansinee Vuttijukkul<br />
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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...<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (<i>Dana</i>), en conservant un code de conduite moral (<i>Sila</i>) et en pratiquant la méditation (<i>Bhavana</i>) eux aussi valident leur vote
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Dans le monde, il y a une variété de professions possibles
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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 <i>Dana</i>, <i>Sila</i> et <i>Bhavana</i>. Nous devons propager cette
victoire des bonnes actions dans notre entourage, ville, état, pays, dans le
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ITALY / ITALIA :</h2>
27 june -3 July Italy 7 days retreat /TNC Italy, Serravale Scrivia (AL)
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8- 10 July retreat at Langres
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contact by email, SMS or call Yadanar Hmoon ±33 0646248060 / theingihmoon@gmail.com)<br />
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10-14 July - Paris - 7 rue de la cite firmin bourgeois, 93350 Le Bourget<br />
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14 July - Sayadaw fly to USA<br />
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<td style="padding-top: 0px;">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 : <br />
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5pm at 119 Dhamma hall in Myanmar language<br />
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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 :)<br />
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Short notice on Fb, so talk, talk talk to your friend,<br />
Share, share share on Fb, <br />
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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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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-18725174297188286762018-01-19T17:29:00.004+08:002018-01-24T18:41:19.944+08:00February Events<table>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/257833328086622" target="_blank">Weekend Meditation Retreat in Noble Silence </a></h2>
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Guided by Sayalay Chandadhika</a></h3>
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Feb 9 - Feb 11</h2>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1534461583289179" target="_blank">Meditation retreat - water fasting with mindfulness/detachment </a></h2>
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Guided by Sayalay Khema Cari</a></h3>
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Feb 19 - Feb 26</h2>
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-27003583653316915802018-01-16T10:59:00.001+08:002018-01-19T16:25:56.711+08:00The Dhamma HospitalIn 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.<br />
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Here is a recording of Sayadaw Ottamathara explaining what is the Dhamma Hospital: <a href="https://app.box.com/s/931ayx7xz2sqxm31en5lfcq75nc7y3ii" target="_blank">Audio </a><br />
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-21896166323294426692018-01-06T17:38:00.000+08:002018-01-06T17:38:35.390+08:00Thabarwa Nature Center EU needs youAppello 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Contact:<br />
Dr Dony Barbagallo<br />
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+39 347 6977778<br />
barbagallo.dony@libero.it<br /><br />
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22 Feb. - 20 March</h2>
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Malaysian - Singapore</h4>
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4 May - 8 May</h2>
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Vietnam - Danang (7 days), Hatian (5 days), Saigon (2 days)</h4>
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<tr><td>9 to 12</td><td>Buddha’s Weg and <span style="font-weight:bold">Frankfurt</span> temple teachings...(last teaching 12 evening)</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>Visit in <span style="font-weight:bold">Klein Raden</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>14 to 15</td><td>Drive to <span style="font-weight:bold">Lithuania</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>16 to 22</td><td><span style="font-weight:bold">Lithuania & Riga</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>23 to 25</td><td>Travel to <span style="font-weight:bold">Switzerland</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>26</td><td>Travel to <span style="font-weight:bold">Italy</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 50px;">27 to 3 July</td><td><span style="font-weight:bold">Italy</span> retreat</td></tr>
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USA tour</h4>
Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-35681243632945849182018-01-05T12:52:00.000+08:002018-01-07T12:08:33.423+08:00Thabarwa Nature centers in the world<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1X-r1jL4S8ffIsLFws051xZZIjCPS3zma" width="500" height="340"></iframe>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-26458434925726877772018-01-05T12:46:00.001+08:002018-01-07T12:08:00.051+08:00Some of our Thabarwa centers in Myanmar<iframe height="340" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1IjEthHvL3QY4XEGC-fczK1jj7ODMqaXd" width="500"></iframe>Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-60858167280417334412018-01-04T16:25:00.025+08:002023-11-30T05:55:20.193+08:00Welcome to the new Thabarwa center in Italy<table><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right: 20px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.thabarwanaturecentre.org" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="600" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMsN4HBNSBZIthPEifOPD4gNR_NO5FtPfqSTzE8r0CdpOIE475CD14L0sZQV7og4ezNxphsxD_hrqNaksEa1pWKWynzd5OwvQctISP0Ye00h82Aq6fFe7x7cni1766RUAhyphenhyphenZiTBbuqrNBqDLnZR1ZPIhGrficnUwds2HycnJbYzCvrJTghAgRfO7U0Fc/w515-h171/A%20new%20Thabarwa%20center%20opened%20in%20Italy.png" width="515" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />The Thabarwa Nature Center Europe is established with a headquarter in Italy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">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).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">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”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">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.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Food, lodging and teaching are freely provided.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In order to participate and contribute to the birth of the center, please fill in the attached form.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-size: x-small;">For more information Email:<br /><b>Southern Italy: thabarwacinquefrondi@gmail.com | <b><a href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069073266626" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Thabarwa Southern Italy Facebook</a></b><br /></b>Northern Italy: info@thabarwanaturecentre.org | </b><b style="font-size: x-small;"><b><b><a href="https://www.thabarwanaturecentre.org/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Thabarwa Nature Center website</a></b></b></b><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069073266626" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-88928634144274887562018-01-04T16:04:00.000+08:002018-01-24T13:55:09.127+08:00January Events<table>
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<h2>Weekend Meditation Retreat in Noble Silence </h2>
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Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-59527341204689642852018-01-04T12:54:00.001+08:002018-01-04T12:54:15.065+08:00Doing What We Cannot Do : Guided Meditation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep our head and body upright. Lift the weight of our body,
hands and legs. Don’t push your body down on the ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep our head and body </span><span style="font-size: large;">upright</span><span style="font-size: large;">. But not like soldiers. Try
to be acting naturally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Truth, Impermanent Nature is beyond limits. Something has limits,
someone has limits. The Truth, Impermanent Nature has no limits, which is
permanent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">The time and place that we know have limits. Our life has
limits. We all must die when the limits come to the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">Our intelligence has
limits. We cannot understand everything. We are using the limited ability, we
cannot do everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">The practice of meditation and doing good deeds is to be
free from limits. We all must go beyond limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Present moment lasts a very short time. No one creates that moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we do what we cannot do, we will be able
to do what we cannot do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">The Truth is beyond our understanding. In order to
know what we cannot understand we should do what we cannot do. Most o</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">End of the teaching.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Sayadawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869530657860133569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887866296120037794.post-27488362552976893362016-02-19T15:44:00.001+08:002016-02-19T16:24:55.072+08:00We Welcome Donors for basic and the most essential healthcare items<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%;">We Welcome Donors<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 150%;">for basic and the most essential</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">ThaBarWa Center (in Thanlyin, Myanmar),
founded by Venerable Ashin Ottamasara is a non-profit humanitarian
organisation working for a noble cause. It
is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">an ideal place for
learning and practicing meditation as well as for helping others who have
physical and mental limitations and difficulties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Our center opens
round-the-clock, 24 hours a day, seven days a week without recess, taking care
of everybody, regardless of age, race and religion, who cannot support
themselves and survive on their own due to various reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The current population
of our centre is more than 2,500 including </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the old, the needy, the disables,
the infirm, the blind, the deaf, homeless, helpless, psychiatric and mental
cases, as well as chronically and terminally ill persons.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Expertise, skills,
healthcare and daily essential items are urgently needed at Thabarwa Center, for
the ever increasing number of people seeking refuge at our main branch in
Thanlyin, Yangon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Currently, we are
facing extreme shortage of the following daily essential healthcare items at
our main branch in Thanlyin, Myanmar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">- washing powders<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
- adult diapers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- bleach disinfectant</span> <br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- dettol disinfectant</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- floor and toilet disinfectant solutions</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- hand sanitisers</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- Disinfectant Wipes (baby wipes)</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- disposable sterile dressing set</span> <br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- sterile gauze</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- self adhesive plasters and bandages</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- 3CC and 20CC disposable syringe</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">- medicated powder for bed sores.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Contributions and expertise from anybody is warmly welcomed as we
are struggling to fulfill the very basic healthcare needs and requirements</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(254, 253, 250); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%;">Thanlyin Centre (Main Centre)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%;"><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">ThanLyin
Pagoda Hill</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">(Between
Kyite Khauk Pagoda and East Yangon University)</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">Thanlyin,
Yangon</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">Myanmar
(Burma)</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">mobile :
95-9972743022,</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">95-9784563653,</span><br />
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">95-9799878495</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sayalay Khema Cari<br />
mobile : 95-9250047330<br />
email :<span style="color: red; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.thabarwa.org/contact/dawkhema@gmail.com">dawkhema@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soe Win Htut<br />
mobile : 95-973074192<br />
email :<span style="color: red; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.thabarwa.org/contact/soewinhtut1977@gmail.com">soewinhtut1977@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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