On Saturday, August 8th there will be the opportunity to join fellow Dhamma practitioners for a day of study and reflection around the theme of Dāna Pārami, or the cultivation of generosity. Starting at 9:00am Pacific Time, Upāsikas will have the opportunity to formally take the Three Refuges and Five Precepts. A practice schedule will continue until 4:00pm. People are welcome to join in-person or…
Monastics and laity at Abhayagiri will be chanting at 1pm PDT on July 25 to celebrate Luang Por Pasanno’s 77th birthday, which falls on July 26. We will be dedicating the merit to his good health and long life. The chanting will be the traditional recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha which is found on page 44 of Chanting Book Volume 2. We will recite this chant 108 times, which will take…
Reflect on the sense of ‘I am’. Notice how it is always associated with some state (I am tired) or notion (I am from Singapore) or action (I am going to New York in the summer). How does your particular ‘I am’ feel when it’s associated with a state, notion or activity? Sometimes positive, sometimes negative, sometimes confident and sometimes uncertain? In summary, it’s changeable. Can you have any ‘I am’ that is independent of a changeable state or activity? If not, your sense of self is always changing. What then is your ‘I am’? So ‘I am’ sits on very uncertain ground. Yet that’s the place wh…
This Dhamma talk was offered on July 11, 2026 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.
