Thursday 13th May, Dhamma Talk With Ajahn Pannyavaro

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Visiting Vipassana teacher Ajahn Pannyavaro will give a dhamma talk at Baan Aree Library, Bangkok, on Thursday 13th May. Talk will be in English. Details:

‘Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional’

Dhamma Talk by Visiting Vipassana teacher

Venerable Pannyavaro

Baan Aree Library (Ari BTS station)

6:30 – 8:15 pm

Topic:

The whole event will be conducted in English only

We will all experience pain in greater or lesser ways. Does this have to translate into mental suffering? In Theravada this is often called ‘The Second Arrow’ – the sutta story says a man shot with an arrow would be unwise to take a second arrow and pierce himself with it. This speaks of our human tendency to create extra suffering out of the inevitable pain that will afflict us at different times.

Ajahn Pannyavaro will talk on this subject from the pragmatic aspect of the meditator. How can pain and suffering be related to in meditation, and in contemplation of daily life? And how does one learn from pain and trials, and grow from them?

Speaker:

about Ven. Pannyavaro . . .

Venerable Pannyavaro is an Australian Buddhist monk, ordained for 30 years, who has devoted his life to the meditational aspects of the Buddha’s teachings. During his meditation training he practiced under several meditation masters in Sri Lanka and Burma including Venerable Sayadaw U Janaka of Chanmyay Meditation Centre, Rangoon, who is the foremost disciple of the renowned Burmese meditation master, the late Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw.

Pannyavaro was involved in the beginnings of a number of the very early Buddhist communities in Australia. He later received full ordination at Wat Borvornivet in Bangkok under Venerable Phra Nyanasamvarva, the Sangha Raja of Thailand.

For the past thirty years, he has studied and practiced meditation in most of the major Theravada Buddhist countries, including long periods of intensive practise of Satipatthana-Vipassana meditation at the Mahasi Sayadaw centres in Burma.

He is perhaps best known however for setting up and maintaining probably the Internet’s most comprehensive resource on Buddhism : www.buddhanet.net

More details at Little Bang.

There will be another talk, "The Case for Insight," on Thursday May 20th at the same venue.