Dear Friends in Dhamma
The bikkunis from the Santi forrest monastery will be on almsround in Castle Hill and Quakers Hill on Saturday 20th April.
The time and place to be:
9.30AM-10AM at Castle towers Piazza in Castle Hill
NEAR BASKINS ROBINS ICECREAM SHOP
10.15AM-10.30AM at Lalor road near Quakers Hill public school behind seven eleven gas station.
Please offer what is in the list. If you wish you may donate funds too.
10.15AM-10.30AM at Lalor road near Quakers Hill public school behind seven eleven gas station.
Please offer what is in the list. If you wish you may donate funds too.
Required food for the monastery:
Brasil nuts
Sauerkraut
flax seeds
sesame and other raw seeds
icing sugar
olive oil
olive oil
apple cider vinegar
bread
bread crumbs
fruit
bicarbonate soda
ginger tea
ginseng tea
Forzen food
Non food items that monastery requires
storage boxes 30 x 45 x 26 (height)cm
baking paper
plastic folder and sheet holder A4
eco friendly laundry detergent
coffee plunger
juice squeezer (the good old fashioned ones to squeezeout lemons by hand)
mosastic colour natural fibre leggings
monastic colour natural fibre sweater medium size
plenty of colour to dye our robes (usually orange, brown, burgundy are a good mixture) for the colouring process also a large amount of salt is needed.
Medicines
Anti histamine tablets
Ibuprofane (Please no Panadol!!!!)
pawpaw cream
Buscopan tablets
DO NOT REQUIRE AND HAVE PLENTY IN STOCK
towels
underwear
tooth brushes and toothpaste,
no binis,
no socks.
They do have enough fresh veggies this week as we just received a load.
the most important is to get a new cooker with oven in the kitchen. There are two women, Leeling and Tam who already agreed to help with purchasing a new one so its rather gathering funds for the porject. I can put you in contact with Leeleng.
Please be there on time as the monastics have not much time to spend as they have to have their meal by 11.am.
Appreciate your cooperations in helping the bhikkunis. I know all of you are very generous and have been supporting them.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on 0408887119. Please circulate as much as possible.
With Mettha
Lalitha
Venerable Bhikkhunis, with your permission, may I present a suggestion? Would you kindly write and publish here teachings of the Buddha according to your lineage and tradition? Would you kindly include in this page the translation into other languages of what you write in this page of yours? In so doing, would you kindly include the Portuguese language, too? You see: every four minutes a woman is killed in Brazil; this is the chief cause of death of women from 14 to 44 years of age, in Brazil. (*) And therefore, every four minutes a man becomes a murderer in Brazil.
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(*) – [Date of the news: March 21st, 2013; source of the news: ‘Painéis abordam panorama da violência contra a mulher no RS e no Brasil’].