The Thai Theravada tradition in Ballarat

Ballarat Buddhist Centre
Wat Thai Bhavana is a Buddhist community in the Thai Theravada tradition.

​It is a community for all people who are interested in the Buddhist way of life. Everyone is welcome, irrespective of age, colour or creed. We offer guidance to those interested in practising the Dhamma.

​The Dhamma is the teachings given by the Lord Buddha over 2600 years ago, and those teachings point to an underlying and transcendent reality which everyone can experience directly for themselves. In order to see reality as it truly is without the fetters of craving and desire, the Buddha established a series of practices taken together are referred to as the Noble Eightfold Path. This path of practice includes developing generosity and kindness, morality, and meditation, leading to the unfolding of wisdom.

Daily Chanting using the Internet

​You can listen by using the LINE app either on your smartphone, tablet device or PC. After you have downloaded and installed this app you will then have to send us an email asking for us to add you to the "Vip. Chanting"group. This may sound cumbersome, but the LINE app does not let you join a group on your own. You have to have a current member of the group to invite you.

​You can download the Line app from this website : https://linecorp.com/en/business/service

​Tuesday only 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm 

 Evening Chanting, Meditation, Dhamma talk (In English language)

All other days 9.00 pm - 10.00 pm 

 Special Chanting, Meditation, Dhamma talk (In Thai language)

Upcoming Events

End of Rain Retreat (Kathin) :

25 November 2018 at the Buninyong Town Hall 

from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm (309A Learmonth Street)

Sacred Pilgrimage and Devotional Meditation Retreat with Babaji Baldev Singh at Bulandpuri (Spiritual Light House), Pubjab India

Sacred Pilgrimage and Devotional Meditation Retreat with Babaji Baldev Singh

Bulandpuri (Spiritual Light House), Punjab, India. 

March 29 through April 14, 2016

Free

Babaji Baldev Singh welcomes anyone who comes with a true and sincere desire to merge with the Divine, manifest his/her destiny and flower into our true potential to celebrate Life and serve Creation. The most magnificent sweet, loving divine presence flows abundantly here to melt our hearts and tenderly touch each of our cells to blossom into truth and manifest their Destiny.

Come share with us this precious opportunity to visit the Spiritual Light House, Bulandpuri in Punjab, India and sit in meditation and receive teachings from Babaji Baldev Singh who will guide us back to our truth and help us attune ourselves to the Divine so that we may serve others. 

Babaji Baldev Singh is the present embodiedment of a long line of Saints going back to the original teachings of Guru Nanak. 

He speaks perfect English, since he lived and studied in Canada in his youth. His humility and selfless service are truly immaculate. He spends all his time in service to countless people in many countries who come to him for help, healing and above all, a safe, loving, sweet path to merge with G-D and fulfill their life's purpose.

You may see videos of his teachings in English here

You may visit him at Bulandpuri Spiritual-Light-House, an ashram-like complex with Temple, school, comfortable and safe lodging facilities, kitchen, etc, in the Punjab, India.

Babaji speaks perfect English. Bulandpuri has all the conveniences to make your stay comfortable, clean and safe. Miguel Kavlin & Carmen Castañeda will be there to host and accompany and take care of you and will also translate into Spanish.

There will be visits to the Golden Temple, Anandpur Sahib and other sacred sites of the Sikh Gurus and Saints. You may also extend and visit, on your own, other sites in North India, Rajastan, Taj Mahal, etc.

Contact via email: 

miguelkavlin@gmail.com

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World Peace and Prayer Days - 19 to 22 June 2014

From Global Indigenous Initiative:

World Peace and Prayer Days take place June 19 - 22, 2014, with a globally synchronized meditation with communities around the planet. GII's#HiddenSeeds supports this beautiful tapestry of people, worldwide, coming together in a spirit of unity and love for Source, the planet and one another.

Visit #Unify (http://unify.org/) for more information about the globally synchronized meditation. And, read this great article, "Honoring Sacred Sites, World Peace and Prayer Day" by Jacob Devaney:http://huff.to/1lDfky7

Stillness and Silence Days at Amberley, Lower Plenty for 2014 --- an invitation to slow down and experience connectedness

Courses, retreats and community among Friends at Silver Wattle. There might be something there just foryou.

The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers)
has a study centre called Silver Wattle
situated near Bungendore in NSW - just 45 minutes from Canberra, ACT.

It is a beautiful setting on Lake George (its Aboriginal name is Weereewa).

Below is the latest newsletter from Co-Directors David and Trish Johnson.

Mornington Peninsula Interfaith Network - Listening to the Land at Bushrangers Bay, Cape Schanck

Listening to the Land

- an event organised by the Mornington Peninsula Interfaith Network (MIPN).

MIPN is celebrating five wonderful years of interfaith/multifaith activities

on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.

Sunday 8 December, 2013

From Interfaithnet

EARTHPRAYER by John Seed

EARTHPRAYER

by John Seed

 I pray
To dissolve myself in the Earth
To feel humanness dissolve back into the Earth
Whence it came

With each outbreath to ask the Earth
To purify
To mingle
To dilute
This over-concentrated humanness

And with each inbreath
To breathe in the ancient flow
The unconditioned pure certainty that comes
From 4000 million years of uninterrupted success

And for this to dissolve the crystal
Craggy structures within
Of habituated poverty and fear
Of this tiny identity turned inwards upon itself
Breathing only its own emanations
Dancing only to its own petty tune

To gently waft through this poverty consciousness
With playful, generous, exuberant abundance
Exultance

And with the outbreath
To tease it out into the world
(as much of it as will surrender)
And out in the world
To mingle, comingle, dance and disolve
So that the next inbreath comes in
Pure and uncompromising
From the vast southern ocean breath
From Antarctica, (remembering Gondwanaland
When that land and this land were one
And my DNA scurried out of the way
Of dinosaurs)
And once again dissolve
The puny structures of the ego
The wretched disconnected human song within
So long deprived of connection
With the great billion voices harmony
Which alone can give it meaning and endurance

And each time the inbreath
Is like a sponge soaking up the bile
The corpses full of fomaldehyde
The foul rotting vapours
For so long feeding on themselves
Hidden from the sun
Divorced from the exchange
The interplay
That alone can keep things fresh and alive

And on each outbreath squeezing the sponge dry
Allowing it to soak up
Pure alive sparkling water
Which pours cleansing, diluting, dissolving
Thru ancient holding, ancient arrogance...

And as the human falls back into the dance
Back into harmony
With the tune that created it
I offer my eyes to the Earth
So that it can have my perspective
Offer all my senses
So that all that I see from this place
The Earth can see
I quit refusing to be Her organs
Quit holding back my perspective
Quit blinding Her to what my eyes see coming down
Become that part of Him
That can see
Warning Her
Preparing Him
Alerting, waking, and pleading for more
More diversity please
More eternity
More time
To dissolve impurity and be dissolved
To be aligned again within the Earth
To fall once more into ancient harmony