Robe Offering Ceremony, Refuge, Precepts, Blessing | Ajahn Kalyano Visits Dhammagiri in Kathina Season

🔸️Intro (Ajahn Dhammasiha, MC)

🔸️Requesting Triple Refuge & 5 Precepts (Dr Mallik & Vijitha)

🔸️Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha  (Conducted by Ajahn Dta Candavaṃso)

🔸️Committing to the 5 Precepts (Conducted by Ajahn Dta Candavaṃso)

🔸️Recitation of Paṃsukūla Sangha-dāna (Dr Mallik & Vijitha)

🔸️Offering of Robes & Forest Cloth to Sangha (All Sangha & Laity)

🔸️Sangha silently contemplates Paṃsukūla Robes (Sangha)

🔸️Recitation of "Kāle dadanti sappaññā..." - Offerings at Auspicious Occasion (Sangha)

🔸️Apalokana Sangha Kamma - Formal Decision of the Sangha to share Sangha Offerings for individual use (Ajahn Khantiko)

🔸️Anumodanā (Rejoicing) & Blessing (Sangha led by Luang Por Kalyano)

This year Ven Ajahn Kalyano and four other senior monks have kindly  accepted our invitation to join us for the ceremony, giving us a Sangha  of eight Bhikkhus: 

🔶 Luang Por Kalyano & Ajahn Dta Candavaṃso from Buddha  Bodhivana Monastery, Warburton near Melbourne. 

🔶 Ajahn Saeang and Ajahn Varadhammo from Bodhisaddha Monastery,  Wilton near Sydney 

🔶 Ajahn Khantiko from Wat Doi Mongkonsathan Hermitage in Chiang Mai  province

🔶️ Our own resident monks Ajahn Dhammasiha, Ajahn Moneyyo & Tan Niddaro 

On the day of the ceremony we had a severe wether event, with torrential  rains, storms, flooding, and the government issuing a warning to do  only 'essential' travel. One of the two main roads to Dhammagiri was  already flooded and impassable.  Amazingly, some 150 people still came out to join, and they all  thoroughly enjoyed it. With their hearts focussed on making good karma  through generostiy, observing precepts, and listening to Dhamma, they  didn't mind some physical discomfort from inclement weather. Even though  the sky was grey 🌧 and raining, our hearts where sunny 🌞, bright, and  joyful throughout the event 😊

We all received a beautiful teaching that out true happiness does not  depend on external conditions, but on the quality of our heart. A heart  filled with goodness and good karma is happy inside, even in adverse  external conditions.

Please note ceremony above is not a formal Kathina, but an offering of 'Forest Cloth' (Pali: Pamsukūla) (Thai: Pah Bah), as conducted if less than 5 monks have spent the rains retreat at the monastery.

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