Dear Dharmaferers
I would like to share this wonderfull dharma.

Once a teacher said.
When one have the notion to be a monk. What one should ask from
oneself...?
1.) Look and see is there a suitable place...
2.) Do it...
The teachers proceed to say...Have metta...it is from within
oneself...the rest let it be...

Once the student ask.
2.) Who is are you (the teacher)...?
Dharma


Perhaps one should try here too
http://www.luangta.or.th/english/site/pictures.php

Metta
Willy



-----Original Message-----
From: Vijita Teoh Chee Keam [mailto:cheekeam@...]
Sent: 05 March 2004 12:07
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Pali] Seeking Monastic Ordination in the Sangha

----- 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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