June 9, 2007

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery will continue with the Upasika Days with a day of community, Dhamma study, and meditation. The Upasika Program exists to provide an opportunity for lay women and men (upasikas/upasakas) to deepen their practice and their relationship to the monastery.

Subject: Meditation/Practical/Metta Meditation
Chants: Metta Sutta
Schedule:

10:30 am - Meal Offering (bring a dish to share)
1:00 pm - Meditation, Refuges and Precepts, Teachings & Discussion
5:00 pm - Upasika Day ends

Reading List:

• In the Buddha’s Words, Chapter VIII, “Mastering the Mind” (pages 257-298).
• Kakacûpama Sutta (The Simile of the Saw), from the Majjhima Nikāya
• Brahmavihara Sutta, (The Sublime Attitudes)
Anguttara Nikāya, 10.208, translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
• Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless by Luang Por Sumedho, “Kindness (Metta)” chapter, pages 35-38
• Metta Chant (audio)
• Metta Chant (print)
• Smile Meditation for Children by Ajhahn Sucitto(from Rainbow Magazine, produced at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery)

For more information contact Mettika at . For directions to the monastery visit the "Directions" page within this website.