In the Presence of Nibbana
Practise Weekend
with Ajahn Dtun
Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd March 2015
Still & Happy
5-Day Easter Retreat
with Ajahn Khemavaro
Thursday 2nd to Tuesday 6th April 2015
Vesak Celebration
Sunday 24th May 2015
Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and
Dhamma Talk
10 – 3 pm
Vesak Weekend Retreat
with Ajahn Khemavaro
Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015
Rains Retreat 2015
31st July to 26th October
You are cordially invited to spend the
Rains Retreat at the Wat.
To serve and to deepen your practice.
Minimum stay of one month and priority will be given to those who can commit themselves for the entire three months.
To register for upcoming retreats, please download an application form from our website www.wbd.org.au and send it to office@wbd.org.au. For further enquiries, please email office@wbd.org.au or call the office at 02-4323-3193 or 0409-389-887 between 9 – 12 noon.
Kathina Ceremony
Sunday 1st November 2015
Activities include: Shared Meal, Auspicious Chanting, and
Dhamma Talk
10 – 3 pm
Thinking & Doubting
There is this obsession with trying to figure things out—trying to know things through concepts, trying to get proof, to get facts and figures and the word of authority and experts. Recognize that this is the thinking mind. We might be highly intellectual, trying to understand Buddhism on that intellectual level, but we’re never able to figure out how to practice.
There is a place where there is no sense of ‘me’ or ‘myself’. It’s not excited, depressed, bored, or whatever; it’s just empty, a clear, direct knowing. This is where you have to trust in awareness because your thinking mind is going to doubt endlessly. Only you can know what’s really happening in your mind. Recognize that in terms of this present moment, here and now, this is awareness; it’s not your thinking mind. The thinking mind will imagine anything—anything you think could be possible. You can doubt yourself, doubt your motives, doubt your ability, and doubt Buddhism. Doubt is the result of thinking—stop thinking and you stop doubting.
Excerpts from Where Jackals Cease
Volume 5 of The Anthology by Ajahn Sumedho