----- Original Message -----
From: "Willy Lim" <willy@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: RE: [Pali] Seeking Monastic Ordination in the Sangha


> 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
>

Vijita Teoh : Sadhu to Mr Willy Lim for lighting the path towards the third
(nekkhamma) parami. Getting ordained after practicing Buddhism is the best
way as we already understand the purpose of ordination and Buddhism itself.
But I wonder if Jeff know the mode of practice most suitable for his way of
life. Some monastery were very strict in every sense of practices while
others were not. Therefore it is wiser if we get more information of the
monastery. One may prefer a dhutanga life style but getting ordained in a
monastery which mastering Abhidhamma is compulsory may find himself settling
in the wrong place. However, it is best to check with the monk you know
well. Or one may make pilgrimage to see with his own eyes, taking eight
precepts while choosing the right place to get ordained. The idea is to get
exposed to all mode of practices in different monasteries.

Sukhi,
Vijita Teoh
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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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