Hello Jeff,

Congratulation on your endeavour...

There is one monastary in Malaysia located at the foothill of Bukit
Mertajam.
He is a fine teacher by the name Luang Phor Wit Chai (from Thailand).
I can take you there if you want to.

May whatever we have gained not be lost...all beings, all breathing
things, all creatures, all individuals (all beings, too), all
personalities (all beings with mind and body), all females, all males,
all nobles one (saints), all worldings (those who have not attained
sainthood), all deities, all humans and all those in the four woeful
planes (including but not limited to the seen and the unseen, the heard
and the unheard, the felt and the unfelt and the birth (arisen) and the
unborn (not yet arisen))...

Metta
Willy

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-----Original Message-----
From: macdocaz1@... [mailto:macdocaz1@...]
Sent: 01 March 2004 23:13
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: [Pali] Seeking Monastic Ordination in the Sangha


Hello, my name is Jeff Brooks. I live in the USA and I have been a lay
follower of the Buddha for 30 years. In the duration of these three
decades I have
practiced meditation (Satipatthana) at least twice a day, as well as
studied
dhamma and reflected upon it almost daily, and I have endeavored to keep
the 5
lifetime precepts.

I have observed the 8 precepts for 4 years now, and I now sit three
times a
day for at least an hour each time. I dedicate every waking moment to
the
benefit of all beings through teaching meditation (samadhi), wisdom
(panna) and
ethics (sila).

As a consequence of the decades of my practice regimen I have given rise
to a
pleasant abiding in the here and now (jhana/dhyana). My meditations are

exceedingly pleasant, and I do not lose awareness when the body sleeps.
Through
my practice the hindrances have been subdued, so I am not compelled to
pursue
obsessive and compulsive behaviors that are driven by greed, ignorance,
delusion, doubt, grasping and aversion that are the manifestation of
narcissism, thus
I lead an ethical life, and am thus a good role model.

I am now 50 years old. My last child is now grown and about to leave
home,
as he is fully independent. I am no longer married. My parents and my
children have given their permission for me to seek ordination,
therefore I would
like to ordain and spend the remainder of this lifetime as a monastic
follower of
the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, teaching and counseling students in what
I
have come to embody, which is meditation (samadhi), wisdom (panna) and
ethics
(sila).

Please tell me if you are able to offer such a one as myself an
ordination
program, or you know of one.

Kindest regards,

Jeff Brooks




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