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		<title>Kathina Robes Offering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dhamma Talk Given on Nov 11, 2001 By Sayadaw U Silananda You are going to offer Kathina robes to the Samgha in a moment. As you probably know, this is an annual ceremony, where individuals and groups offer Kathina robes to the Samgha. I hope you remember what’s special about Kathina robes. First of all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A About Vipassana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions And Answers About Vipassana By Sayadaw U Silananda 1. Where does the practice of Vipassana come from? Vipassana meditation chiefly comes from the tradition of Theravada Buddhism. There are two major divisions of Buddhism in the world today &#8211; Mahayana and Theravada. Mahayana tradition developed as Buddhism spread to the Northern Asian countries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Vipassana Exercises II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practical Vipassana Meditation Exercises (Part two) An article by Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita Sobhana When you are seated, note the movements involved in arranging your legs and arms. When there are no such movements, but just a stillness (static rest) of body, note the rising and falling of the abdomen. While noting thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Vipassana Exercises I</title>
		<link>http://www.bodhi.org.sg/articles/practical-vipassana-meditation-exercises-part-one</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practical Vipassana Meditation Exercises (Part one) An article by Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita Sobhana The practice of vipassana or insight meditation is the effort made by the meditator to understand correctly the nature of the psychophysical phenomena taking place in his own body. Physical phenomena are the things or objects which one clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Kinds of Right Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Kinds of Right Living to Reach Good Realms An article by Sayadaw U Kundala Those who are born as human beings have done merits in their previous lives and to be born as human beings is the result of past good deeds. They wish to live good lives in the human world. Only if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vipassana Retreat in Bali</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never crosses my mind to do a meditation retreat in Bali, Indonesia.  The island so rich in Hindu culture seems such an unlikely destination  to do a vipassana meditation retreat. When ST sent me the link about  this retreat organized by BMC, the pictures caught my eyes. The place  looks so serene and with only 30 vacancies, a few of us decide to be  kiasu and register early.

As the days slowly approach the departure date and information is  still not quite forthcoming, I panic and keep bugging Ms Zhuang, the  person in charge for more details and itinerary and what to expect, etc.  After all, this is my first stay-in retreat! With some consolation that  this is organized by a Buddhist organization (though I am not familiar  with the center!) and the leading Venerable is someone familiar, I  decided to quit worrying and to just go with the flow. Since the primary  objective is to tame the mind and practice living in the present, the  other considerations should be secondary.]]></description>
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		<title>Vipassana Should Be Practised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human life is so full of problems  such as the problem of food, clothing, shelter, social affairs,  political affairs and so on. Compared to the lives of devas and Brahmas,  the human life span is too short. A hundred years in the human world is  just one and a half hours in the world of paranimmitta-vasavatti  celestial devas.

However, though human life is too  short and full of problems, it offers the best opportunities to  cultivate or accumulate merits and paramis which will lead to the  cessation of sufferings and Nibbana. All Buddhas, Pacceka Buddhas,  Arahants who had attained Nibbana accumulated merit and paramis in this  human world.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Stages Of Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three stages of development for a Buddhist - morality is the  first stage, concentration the second, and wisdom the third. The eight  steps of the Eightfold Path are classified under these three stages.  Morality includes right speech, right action, and right livelihood;  concentration includes right effort, right mindfulness, and right  concentration; and wisdom includes right understanding, and right  thought (which are the first two steps in the Eightfold Path). Although  wisdom is in one sense the beginning of the Eightfold Path, in a more  important sense it is the outcome.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Types of People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly a person is born in the lower strata of life, with an ugly appearance, poor health, bodily defects such as blindness, deafness, inarticulateness, deformation, etc., and has no food to eat, no clothes to wear, no house to dwell in and no medicine for health. ]]></description>
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