Dear Friends:

On December 5th, the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery’s First Tuesday program will feature three sessions, including an online-only Q&A with Ajahn Nyaniko. The online-only Q&A will be available to all, but primarily intended for those living out of the area or unable to travel to Berkeley. It will be followed by in-person sessions led by Ajahn Karunadhammo. The programs in Berkeley will not be available for online participation. Masks are currently optional.

The schedule is as follows:

• 3:00 - 4:30 pm. Online Q&A with Ajahn Nyaniko. This is a great opportunity to ask your dhamma questions via Zoom. (See Zoom link further below.)

• 5:00 - 6:00 pm. In-person Teatime Q&A with Ajahn Karunadhammo in the Dining Room. This is also a great opportunity to ask your dhamma questions in person. Kindly keep voices low in the lobby and hallway as you enter and exit the building. Please arrive by 4:50 pm and help yourself to tea and allowables.

• 7:30 - 9:30 pm. In-person Evening Session with Ajahn Karunadhammo in the Main Shrine Room. Dhamma talk preceded by chanting, meditation, and refuges/precepts. We would greatly appreciate your assistance with setting up and putting away chairs/cushions. Doors for this session open at 7:15 pm.

Our gracious host, the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (BBM) has meditation and chanting programs from 5:15 to 7:15 pm in the Main Shrine Room. These programs partially overlap with the Abhayagiri First Tuesday program at BBM. After the Teatime and prior to the Evening Session, please be mindful of others and take conversations outside of the building.

Note: This will be the last First Tuesday program until April 2024. The Abhayagiri monastics will be on their annual winter retreat period from January – March.

Address:
Berkeley Buddhist Monastery
2304 McKinley Ave.
(One block from the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Bancroft Way. The Downtown Berkeley BART station is about a 10 - 15 minute walk.)

Hope you can join us.

With gratitude,

Moderator

Topic: 1st Tuesday of December - Online Q&A
Time: Dec 5, 2023 03:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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There will be another Practice and Study on Mindfulness of Breathing on Saturday, December 9 at Abhayagiri. The theme is Mindfulness of Breathing: Strategies for Settling the Mind. The primary teachers will be Ajahn Karunadhammo and Ajahn Nyaniko.

This event is freely offered for the general public and no registration is required. There will be teachings offered and also time for meditation and for questions. All are welcome to attend any part of this event and are also welcome to join in the daily meal offering at 10:45am.

The morning session will be from 9am to 10:45am and the afternoon session will be from 1pm to 5pm.
There will be a livestream available via the Abhayagiri YouTube Channel. Unfortunately, for those viewing remotely, there will be some limitations for this event such as not being able to ask questions.

As per usual, there will be an informal tea time with a senior monk from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the Monks Dining Hall. Beginning at 7pm, there will be the Saturday evening program including evening chanting and meditation, followed by a Dhamma talk by Ajahn Nyaniko.

In honor of Luang Por Pasanno having completed his 50th Rains Retreat as bhikkhu, we are pleased to announce the Ajahn Pasanno Question and Story Archive.

What is the Ajahn Pasanno Question and Story Archive?
If you have a Dhamma question, it’s likely that Ajahn Pasanno has spoken to it in the past. But how will you find his answer amidst the hours of available recordings?

This archive is an attempt to make the oral teachings of Ajahn Pasanno more accessible. It contains transcriptions of questions asked and audio recordings of Ajahn Pasanno’s answers. The questions are organized by event and tagged by subject. The stories Ajahn Pasanno tells in the course of answering Dhamma questions are often as valuable as the questions themselves. Thus the archive has been expanded to include stories, quotes, readings, sutta references, and other content in addition to questions and answers. Ajahn Pasanno readily shares the teaching seat with other Abhayagiri residents and invited guests, and the archive includes material from those who teach alongside him.

The archive currently indexes recordings from roughly half of the events led by Ajahn Pasanno with recordings on abhayagiri.org. We hope to add more material on a monthly basis.

This archive has been created by one of Ajahn Pasanno’s grateful students with help from others.