This secular meditation centre near Kandy is well adapted for westerners, but a booking is necessary:
http://nilambe.net/retreats.php
This secular meditation centre near Kandy is well adapted for westerners, but a booking is necessary:
I see you freaked out. let me give you some advice. If you go and read old scriptures in (the thripitaka) budhism..then you will see a glimpse of the lord Buddhas time. there were good monks,bad monks, good dayaka's and bad dayaka's. even in buddhas time.etc..How can you expect otherwise now. Then these are the days after more than 2500 years past lord budhdha. there is no one to clear up the misunderstandings of vinaya nor the bad behaviour. I travelled arround sri lanka,myanmar ..it is every where.So going around a country and asking and talking with many monks wont work. Before going you need to do some research. Nowadays many people becoming monks for the financial (or material) perks it will give. There are only handfull of monks who genuinely try to practice. there are some monks in monasteries who try to practice. again trying to practice doesn't mean they become enlightened. isn't? So expect that. I hope you visited Na Uyana, and Meethirigala. especially Na Uyana. its good place and it will give you facilities you need to practise.And there are very good teachers if you try to find. But dont try to meddle with political problems in the country. everywhere its is the same.even in myanmar. Try to do your own business. And you will be fine. Take as much as possible you can and leave the place unattached. Nothing else we could do .can we? We can't change the world.fornoxe wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 1:24 am 800rp / day also.
I don't understand. Why to speak about center for westerner? I am speaking about what I saw I mean even monk does not look for enlightment anymore (chanting chanting chanting), I just don't want to be with extremist and racist monks.
That's is your meaning about westerner center? Place where monks are looking for enlightment and unconditional love? U're freaking me lol
He meant the westerner or some one coming from a different country and culture have different needs.they cannot change to our way of doing things with in a day or too. For example. We as sri lankans take many spicy foods. If we give the same food to you (which is easy for us ,BTW) then you will run away with out looking back.surely. So most monasteries try to cater you as much as possible.Not every monastery can provide facilities for foreign people. that's is what he may have meant. hope it clears up
Not the only.and not the first..there will be many more like that in future..confusedlayman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:29 pm Aloka upadi? The abbot is arhant .. she told it herself...
true arhants? but i am not convincedSuranga wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:45 amNot the only.and not the first..there will be many more like that in future..confusedlayman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:29 pm Aloka upadi? The abbot is arhant .. she told it herself...
Me neither ..so I just disregard theseconfusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:53 amtrue arhants? but i am not convincedSuranga wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:45 amNot the only.and not the first..there will be many more like that in future..confusedlayman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:29 pm Aloka upadi? The abbot is arhant .. she told it herself...
is there arhants in sri lanka?
Real arhants ,may be.we hear a stories about good monks in the remote forests time to time. but these...I don't know, and there are many(like these) who claim them selves arhants or non returners. I never listen to any body who advertising them selves arhants. Anybody who is a non returner will never advertise them self .that's just my understanding.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:20 amis there arhants in sri lanka?
or non returner or sotapanna?
Hello there "pilgrim",pilgrim wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:06 am Just as an option, you may be interested to know there are some lesser known monasteries which practise in the Goenka tradition. This one is in Sri Lanka
https://sites.google.com/site/kahagollamonastery/
Are Vinaya classes/Exam in English?paul wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:07 pm NUA APPROXIMATE TIMELINE TO BHIKKHU ORDINATION
1-4 months: Upāsaka (8 Precepts)
6-12 months Pabbajjā (going forth) and abiding as a Sāmaṇera (Novice monk) (10 Precepts and 75 Sekhiya rules) January – March: Vinaya Classes
April: Vinaya Exam
June: Upasampadā (higher ordination) at Galduwa Monastery