Event Reflections

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2013 Three-day Meditation Retreat
Joseph Wong (English Sutra Study class) A welcome reprieve from the demands of daily life, the Bao Lin three-day meditation retreat allowed one to simply just be. I especially appreciate the need for silence. The retreat afforded me a chance to leave everything behind for those three days, and just concentrate on the practice. Travelling on the Path is never easy. It was never meant to be. There were times when my mind would fight against it ...
2012 Cooking Competition
Angelina (Chuang Qing) Our little team of three, Lee Ann Green, Raymond Chang & I embarked on a new challenge in Bao Lin's cooking competition with no previous experience, just faith in each other and good team effort. Bao Lin did an excellent job in setting up & facilitating the event. We were pretty relaxed until we got to Bao Lin on the day about 9.00 am to find the place was blazed with activities. Everybody was ...
English Meditation Class
Jacques Joubert (Neurologist, English Sutra Study Class) Recently there have been two events that due to the nature of modern communication have been flashed round the world, and, for a medical practitioner such as myself have been proof that there is beyond the seen world, outside the concepts of scientific materialism, a realm that can influence our physical beings as well as our minds. The first was the recent documentation of an aged Tibetan Lama, who died ...
English Meditation Class
English Sutra Study Class Student/ Educator My experience with Buddhism is brief, only about 10 years. One of my first encounters was a brave step into a local Chinese temple which turned out be challenging due to the language barrier; despite great compassion shown by the Reverend, I didn't persevere too long. Around this time I turned to books for my first real lessons in Buddhism buying a number of popular and readily available books and devouring ...
2011 Joy of Chan
Maureen Lowentein (English Sutra Study Class) I have lived in Glen Iris for 27 years and have been attending the Bao Lin Monastery for 2 ½ years. Attending weekly Dharma talks and meditation has been extremely useful in my life and has made me more tolerant towards others and less reactive to the adverse situations that present themselves in the usual course of living. The most beneficial aspect of my involvement with the monastery has been the ...
2010 3-day meditation retreat
Maggie Milne I thought the retreat was so fun! I had never been to a meditation retreat before so I didn’t really know what to expect and I wondered if I could go for 2 days without talking and just meditate a lot, but it was actually fine. Not talking actually made me feel calmer. Forty minutes of meditation was a good amount of time because after one hour I get a lot of pins and needles ...
2010 Children Camp
Reflections by the attending children Jemina Today I learnt a song. My favourite game was the one where we needed to free the princess. I liked that game because it was fun and my group won! Steven Le I thought today was fun, we got to play games, learnt to be kind and to not always be angry Zhan Hui The meditation was good. All the games were fun and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the games ...