Dear friends,
it was a great event – the pindabata for the nuns in Castle hills – organized by Lalitha. Thank you all for joining in, either at the different stations where you were waiting for us to come along with our bowls, or at Lalitha’s house, where we finally went to have lunch and talk about meditation.
Although it rained and was cold, you were patiently waiting and meeting you all time passed so quickly that we found that we will do pindabata and meditation again.
Here are some pictures Lalitha took with her phone.
“Now, Maha-Pajapati, the Gotamid, went to the Buddha, saluted Him, and stood at one side… and said:
‘Well for me, oh Lord, if the Lord would show me a teaching, hearing which from the lips of the Buddha, I might dwell alone, solitary, zealous, ardent, and resolved.’ Then, the Buddha said: ‘Of whatsoever teachings, Gotamid, thou canst assure thyself thus: These doctrines conduce to passions, not to dispassion; to bondage, not to detachment; to increase of [worldly] gains, not to decrease of them; to covetousness, not to frugality; to discontet, and not content; to company, not solitude; to sluggishness, not energy; to delight in evil, not delight in good; of such teachings thou mayest with certainty affirm, Gotamid: “This is not the Buddha Dhamma. This is not the Buddha Vinaya. This is not the Buddha teaching. But of whatsoever teachings thou canst assure thyself [that they are the opposite of these things that I have told you] – of such teachings thou mayest with certainty affirm: “This is the Buddha Dhamma. This is the Buddha Vinaya. This is the Buddha teaching.” Vinaya, ii, 10 – (Some Sayings of the Buddha According to the Pali Canon, translated from the Pali by scholar F. L. Woodward – formerly principle of Mahinda Buddhist College, Gale, Ceylon – Oxford University Press, Madras, 1925).