Hi all
I am pretty new to the Theravadan practice but have just been reading about Vassa (rains retreat) commencing next week.
I live in the western world and was interested to know what other people in the same boat do for this period?
Do you give something up? Practice harder? Some kind of celebration?
Vassa
Re: Vassa
Hello Bunk,
This might be a starting point:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... html#rains
With metta,
Chris
This might be a starting point:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... html#rains
With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Vassa
Thank you Chris.cooran wrote:Hello Bunk,
This might be a starting point:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... html#rains
With metta,
Chris
Do you know what punna is in the context below?
Make haste towards the good
and check your mind from evil.
Whoso is slow in making puñña
his mind delights in evil.
If a man should puñña make
let him do it again and again;
he should make a wish for that:
happy is the piling up of puñña.
Stop thinking and start living!
Re: Vassa
Hello Bunks,
It means "merit, kammically wholesome action".
You can look it up in this dictionary.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma2/dic ... index.html
With metta,
Chris
It means "merit, kammically wholesome action".
You can look it up in this dictionary.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma2/dic ... index.html
With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---