Dhamma News & Events
7-days Teenager Course for Girls
A 7-days teenager-girls Vipassana course is scheduled to be held at Dhamma Thali from the 23rd to the 31st of December, 2009. Girls between the age of 15 and 19 years are eligible to participate in this course.
This is a 7-days residential course wherein Noble Silence will be observed for 6 days. The student is expected to work intensively from morning 5:30 a.m. to night 9 p.m. It is a rigorous course, absolutely different from an Anapana course, the objective of which is to purify the mind at the deepest level. The course begins at 8 p.m. on the 23rd of December and concludes at 6:30 a.m. on the 31st of December.
Prior registration is a must for entry to this course. Call 9610401401, 9602848896 or 0141-2680220 for registration and availing of special application form and teenager code of discipline either in Hindi or in English.
Prior to filling up the application form, please go through the code of discipline either in Hindi or in English.
Kindly send the application form duly filled to the Jaipur Vipassana Centre , P.B. No. 208, Jaipur - 302 001 before the start of the course. The Assistant Teacher will call the girl student telephonically to interview her and confirm her registration for the course.
Pujya Guruji's 5-day stay at Jodhpur
Jodhpur Centre had the good fortune of hosting Pujya Guruji on his 5-day visit to the city. Guruji arrived at the Dhamma Marudhara Centre on the 29th of June. He gave Metta to the teenager-girls on the 30th, the Metta Day of the 7-day teenagers' course. The local Vipassana Trust organized two group sittings at the Centre for the benefit of old meditators who arrived in droves from various parts of the country.
In a symbolic ceremony, Guruji laid the foundation of the proposed new Dhamma Hall on the 1st of July. During the course of his stay here, Guruji also gave three public talks including question-and-answer sessions on the 30th of June, the 1st and 2nd of July at Jai Narayan Vyas Town Hall. Guruji's visit after a long hiatus gave the much needed impetus to Dhamma activities in the region.
New Vipassana Centre in Churu
A Vipassana Centre will soon come up in Pujya Guruji's ancestral town of Churu on ten acres of land that have been recently purchased. Construction work is expected to commence soon. Those meditators who wish to participate in the merits of building this Centre may send a cheque / draft favouring 'Pubbaj Bhoomi Vipassana Trust', Churu.
Special Gratitude towards the Meditators
When Acharya Shri S. N. Goenkaji remembers the early days of Vipassana, his mind is filled with immense gratitude for all those who accepted the gift of Dhamma from him at that time. If they had not given him ten invaluable days of their life in those early days, how people from all over the world could come to him today to learn Vipassana? This is the reason Acharya Goenkaji feels especially grateful to those who participated in Vipassana courses in India in the first ten years (from 1969 to 1979) and wishes to meet up with them once again to personally express his gratitude in the Gratitude Gathering. Along with them, all teachers, senior assistant teachers, assistant teachers, children's course teachers, trustees, Dhamma workers and meditators are also cordially invited for this gathering.
Please check if you know meditators who have taken a Vipassana course under Acharya Goenkaji during the period 1969 to 1979. It is possible, if they are not still continuing Vipassana in this tradition, that:
- they may not be practising Vipassana and have lost contact or
- they have taken up some other spiritual practice or
- they have started teaching meditation on their own.
Irrespective what they are doing today, Goenkaji is grateful to all of them. All of them are to be invited for the Gratitude Gathering. Therefore, please send their names, current address, phone number, email, date and venue of their first course and also request others to do the same.
Gratitude Gathering
Sunday, 17 January 2010.
Venue:Global Vipassana Pagoda
Gorai (Borivali), Mumbai
Invitation
Please participate in the gathering on this date. Please do inform us about your participation and also about participation of your family and friends so as to enable us to make proper arrangements for food etc. for all participants.
Attention - Ms. Bhavana Gogri or Ms. Namita Bajaj
Vipassana International Academy
Dhamma Giri, Igatpuri 422 403, Dist Nashik,
Maharashtra, India
Email: globalpagoda17Jan@gmail.com
Phone: 02553-244076, 02553-244086, Mo. (+91) 9967871644, (+91) 9819615426
(from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Dhamma Servers' Workshop
Dhamma servers' workshop begins at 9 a.m. on the 19th of December 2009 and concludes at about 4 p.m. on the 20th of December 2009. It is preferable (if possible) to report at the Centre on the evening of the 18th of December 2009.
Venue:Dhamma Thali, via Sisodiya Rani Baug, Ghat ke Balaji
just ½ a k.m. before Galtaji Temple
Jaipur
For registration, please call up 9602848896, 9610401401 or e-mail to dhammathali.jpr@gmail.com. Kindly submit your details - name, age, education, occupation, no. of courses completed and served (with details), contact details (phone/e-mail).
Dhamma Thali Sandesh
A periodical Hindi Vipassana newsletter is proposed to be revived from the month of October, 2009. Those Rajasthan meditators who wish to receive this newsletter are requested to SMS their name, address (with pin code), mobile no. and e-mail id to 9610401401 or send a postcard bearing these details to:
Shri Sher Singh Jain1-Gha-6, Jawahar Nagar
Jaipur - 302 004
Bus Service to the Centre
A bus service has been introduced from varying parts of the city (so far Malviya Nagar, Tonk Road, Mansarovar, Ajmer Road, Adarsh Nagar) on the last Sunday of every month so as to enable old Vipassana meditators to reach the Centre conveniently for the 1-day course (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Those wishing to avail this service can contact 9610401401.