Dhamma Wheel Buddhist Forum

Hi,

Thought it would be right to introduce myself as just registered today.

My name is Jon, I am 37 years old and live in Wellington, New Zealand.

I have been interested in Buddhism, ever since I first started to practice, martial arts, which has been my hobby on and off, since I was 14 years old.

Over the years I have travelled, throughout, Thailand, China and made other trips to Laos, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam etc.

I am mostly a practitioner of Thai Theravada (Dhammayut) and have supported our local temples here for over 10 years, I sometimes do charity and community work with my wife, who is heavily into, traditional Thai dance and part of ET-NZ (Educate Thai New Zealand) which is a non-profit organisation, which helps continue and uphold Thai culture (dance, language etc) here.

Over the years I have studied on a lot of subjects, first pertaining to martial arts and then later on more into philosophy/religion and also the occult (Thai saiyasat, wicha, etc). I also am studying, Thai animist rituals etc, just in relation to anthropology and general interest.

I am mostly here to further my studies into Pali, Vipassana meditation and general knowledge.

Thanks and Sadhu

Jon D.

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel!

Greetings,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.



Metta,
Retro.

Hi Dharmapala,

Welcome to the forum!

Hello Dharmapala,

Welcome to DhammaWheel - good to have another kiwi!

With metta,
Chris

Welcome!


Mike

Hey mate. Fellow Kiwi here. Do you visit Bodhinyanarama in stokes valley much? I have stayed there for a couple of months in the past 7 years, its a very nice spot for practice.

BlackBird wrote:Hey mate. Fellow Kiwi here. Do you visit Bodhinyanarama in stokes valley much? I have stayed there for a couple of months in the past 7 years, its a very nice spot for practice.

I know the monastery well, but I usually go and visit, Wat Dhammaprateep, which is situated in Wainiuomata. I think they are going to be moving soon and sad to say, Wat Dhammakaya is growing in popularity and influence and a lot of people from our temple have seemed to have joined.

Jon

Hi Jon and welcome to DW!

Hello Dharmapala, I'm a kiwi too, lived in Welly for a few years, but I'm in Australia now.

Dharmapala wrote:...Wat Dhammaprateep, which is situated in Wainiuomata. I think they are going to be moving soon and sad to say,...

Where will their new place be? It would be nice if they could have somewhere with a bit of bush and seclusion.
The new Sri Lankan monastery has just opened up near Wainuiomata too, down Coast Road.

Welcome!