Upcoming events 2019 - For the Month of April

Upcoming events 2019 -
For the Month of April

1st April, 2019 (Mon)

Zhineng Qigong by Sis SK Wong
Time : 8 - 10 pm

https://youtu.be/Wq6Avl1Pppc

2nd April, 2019 (Tues)

Metta Lodge Dhamma family are highly encouraged to join the Laughter Yoga Session on every Tuesday morning at Taman Komuniti Melodies, Jalan Nibong, Melodies Gardens conducted by Bro Lim Tuan Chit.

Time:  7 am - 7.30 am

This is a FREE & secular event.
Facebook:
https://goo.gl/2kW9xm

Deaf laughter festival in Johor a first of its kind
Read more at
https://goo.gl/voQbBY

2nd April, 2019 (Tues)

Live Streaming video Meditation Guidance

🕖 7:45 pm-9:15 pm

☸网络视频禅修指导
Ajahn Cagino 👤  永觉比丘
Mandarin 🗣华语

Enquiry 📱询问 :
如权  Bro Keh +601128680823
Sis Ee Seow Lim +60 13722 5602

5th April, 2019 (Fri)

New Moon Paritta Chanting & Meditation

Time 8 pm - 10 pm

NEW-MOON UPOSATHA SERVICE
Friday, 5 April | 8.15pm - 9pm | Metta Lodge New Centre in Johor Jaya

We invite you to join the Uposatha Service at Metta Lodge New Centre Johor Jaya to observe the New-moon day. The service will be conducted by Bhante Mahacara. We will start with offerings to the Three Jewels, chanting and meditation.
All are welcome!
🙏🙏🙏

6th April, 2019 (Sat)

2019 Buddhist Youth Saturday Activities

Time: 9 am to 11.30 am

Mj club Dhamma Session resumes today at the New Building.


6th April, 2019 (Sat)

Fellowship & Dhamma sharing with Bro Dr Wong Yin Onn

Time 8 pm to 10 pm

7th April,  2019 (Sun)

Sunday morning Puja follow by Hymn singing, fellowship cell group discussion or Broadcasting Dhamma talk

Program:
10 am - 11 am   Puja Chanting
11 am - 12.30 pm   Hymn Singing, cell group discussions or Dhamma talk broadcasting.
12.30 pm Lunch
All are welcome to join.

Please click link to join
https://goo.gl/R18y

8th April, 2019 (Mon)

Zhineng Qigong by Sis SK Wong

Time : 8 - 10 pm

https://youtu.be/Wq6Avl1Pppc

9th April, 2019 (Tues)

Metta Lodge Dhamma family are highly encouraged to join the Laughter Yoga Session on every Tuesday morning at Taman Komuniti Melodies, Jalan Nibong, Melodies Gardens conducted by Bro Lim Tuan Chit.

Time:  7 am - 7.30 am

This is a FREE & secular event.
Facebook:
https://goo.gl/2kW9xm

Deaf laughter festival in Johor a first of its kind
Read more at
https://goo.gl/voQbBY

9th April, 2019 (Tues)

Live Streaming video Meditation Guidance

🕖 7:45 pm-9:15 pm

☸网络视频禅修指导
Ajahn Cagino 👤  永觉比丘
Mandarin 🗣华语

Enquiry 📱询问 :
如权  Bro Keh +601128680823
Sis Ee Seow Lim +60 13722 5602

10th April, 2019 (Wed)


Dhamma talk by Bhante Paññanandā  on 10th April, 2019

Time: 8 pm to 10 pm

Medium: English

Venue: Metta Lodge Shrine Hall.

No. 2 Jalan Teratai 15, Taman Johore Jaya.


Profile of Bhante Paññanandā

Saya Paññanandā Bhikkhu lahir di Kota Medan pada tanggal 30 NOVEMBER 1958, awal saya memahami Dhamma adalah ketika pertama kalinya saya mengikuti retreats Vipassana bhavana yang berpedoman pada Mahasatipatthana sutta selama 10 hari dipandu oleh Bhante Thitaketuko pada tahun 1996 di Watu Gong Semarang Jawa Tengah Indonesia.
Setelah memahami manfaat dari praktik vipassana bhavana, saya kemudian membuat keputusan untuk menjadi bhikkhu pada tahun 2001 dan kemudian melanjutkan latihan saya di :
Vassa 1 di pusat meditasi hutan Panditarama Myanmar.
Vassa 2 di Malaysia Buddhist Meditation Centre (MBMC) 
Vassa 3 di Chanmay Yeiktha Myanmar.
Vasaa 4-5 di Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukkha Tawya Myanmar.
Vassa 6 di Vihara Borobudur Medan.
Vassa 7 di Mettayana Medan.
Vassa 8-9-10-11 di BMC (Buddhist Meditation Centre) Medan.
Vassa 12 di Bahorok medan.
Vassa 13 di Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukkha Tawya Myanmar.
Vassa 14-15-16-17-18 di BMC (Buddhist Meditation Centre) Medan.
Sekarang saya tinggal di BMC Medan.

Aktivitas saya setiap hari di BMC Medan :
04:30 - 07:00 Meditasi, Chanting, dana untuk sarapan dan berbagi pahala.
10:30 - 12:00 Dana untuk makan siang dan berbagi pahala.
19:30 - 21:00 Chanting, meditasi dan berbagi pahala.

Membimbing retret Vipassana di BMC Medan :
10 hari Idul Fitri Retreat pada bulan Juni.
10 hari Natal Retreat pada bulan Desember.
Membimbing Retreats Vipassana di Johor Bharu dan Kuching.

BMC terbuka untuk para yogi sepanjang tahun.

13th April, 2019 (Sat)

2019 Buddhist Youth Saturday Activities

Time: 9 am to 11.30 am


14th April,  2019 (Sun)

Sunday morning Puja follow by Hymn singing, fellowship cell group discussion or Broadcasting Dhamma talk

Program:
10 am - 11 am   Puja Chanting
11 am - 12.30 pm   Hymn Singing, cell group discussions or Dhamma talk broadcasting.
12.30 pm Lunch
All are welcome to join.

Please click link to join
https://goo.gl/R18y

14th April, 2019 (Sun)

Fellowship & Dhamma sharing with Bro Dr Wong Yin Onn

Time 7 pm to 9 pm



14th April, 2019 (Sun)

DIPLOMA IN DHAMMA & ABHIDHAMMA by*
*COLOMBO Y.M.B.A. Sri Lanka* ....Dhamma Classes are conducted every  :

1) 2nd SUN of each month
from  12.45 pm to 5.00 pm
2) 4nd. SUN of each month
from 12.45 pm to 5.00 pm
3) 3rd Wed of each month
From 8 pm - 10 pm

Facilitator : Bro T C Lim
For enquiry :
Sis Joanne Lai +60127239181 or

Sis Rose      +6012 9114125
(Available: 2 pm - 6 pm Only )



15th April, 2019 to 5th May, 2019

法影(二): 回家的路 Dhammafarers 2: Our Real Home

法影（二）： 回家的路摄影展 @
Dhammafarers II : Our Real Home photo exhibition @ Metta Lodge Multi Purpose Hall Ground Floor
Date:  15/04/19 - 5/05/2019
Time: Daily
10.30 am to 4.30 pm on weekday
10.30 am to 6.30 pm Sat & Sun

Opening of exhibition by Ajahn Cagino
Date:  22nd April, 2019
Time: 11.00 am

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摄影展 Photo exhibition


我到处去寻找禅修的所在，
却不知道就在这里，
在我心中。

所有的禅修，
就在我身上：
生、老、病、死，
全都在我身上。

我四处寻访，
直到筋疲力尽，
直到这一刻，
停下来时，
才发现自己要找的，
它，就在我心中。
～【阿姜查】

I wandered around looking for places to practise meditation. I didn’t realise that the right place is already here, in my heart.

All the meditation is inside me. Birth, old age, sickness and death are right here within me.

I travelled all over looking for the right place to meditate, and stopped only when I was about to drop dead from exhaustion. Only then did I find what I was looking for: inside of me.

Ajahn Chah


(回家的路)

我们的家在哪儿?

有没有一个真正安全的所在，能经得起无常的肆虐？

我们舒适的居所—这个身体，和一切我们的所爱，是否能够让我们免除于衰老、疾病与别离的苦难？

我们从四面八方寻找平静、从事业拼搏里寻找安稳、从情爱纠缠中寻找幸福。不断向外追寻，跌跌撞撞、费尽心思。

踏破铁鞋，独坐于寂静中，才骤然发现我们真正的归处，原来一直就在此刻，就在每一个当下。

此摄影展所展示的照片，是禅修中的比丘和居士们，休憩于他们真正的家—内心的平静中。这是长久幸福与安稳的道路，通往我们真正的归处、真正的家。

My Real Home

What is our real home?

Is there a secure place where we can call home, one that will be not robbed by ravages of time?

Can our comfortable shelters, this now-functioning body, and even those we love protect us from the suffering and grief of illness, old age, and losing our loved ones?

We seek peace from our worldwide travels, security from our jobs, supreme happiness from intimate relationships. And finally disappointed and exhausted by the external search, we sit down in silent solitude . . . to find that the real home is, and has always been, here, and now.

The photographs in this exhibition feature monks and laity in meditation, each resting in one’s real home—the heart with inner peace. This is the secure home that brings lasting happiness and cannot be lost.

这个影展的目的，是希望通过影像，让大家回到自己的内心中，寻找一些真正有意义的东西。

寻回真正的平静，不再徘徊于红尘中，不断的经历快乐与痛苦、喜悦与伤悲。

佛陀说：世间没有任何快乐，能够超越宁静所带来的快乐。

愿大家都能在内心中，找到真正的平静，找到我们真正的家。
～ 【永觉比丘】

This exhibition prompts people to search for something of value in their hearts: peace.

Peace is not obtained by lingering on worldly affairs or constantly going through the cycle of happiness and pain, joy and sorrow.

The Buddha said that no worldly happiness can surpass that of Nibbana.

May all beings find peace—the real home—in their hearts.

Ajahn Cagino

All images by Cagino Bhikkhu.
Please credit Cagino Bhikkhu if you wish to wish any of the images.

Dhammafarers II : Our Real Home photo exhibition on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Ynv_rbafywQ

Slide show of all Ajahn photos
https://www.facebook.com/ndr.sgp/posts/1761496180585004

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/AjahnCagino/videos/1443077542395975/

22nd April, 2019 (Mon)

Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Martin

Time : 8 pm to 10 pm

Venue : Fellowship room

22nd April, 2019 (Mon)

Zhineng Qigong by Sis SK Wong
Time : 8 - 10 pm

https://youtu.be/Wq6Avl1Pppc

Dear all
FYI, on 22/4, Monday, we will resume our Qigong class at Multipurpose Hall, Ground Floor, MLJJ. All are welcomed to join us. Do bring your own sitting stool and drinking water.
With Metta
Sis Joanne
🙏🙏🙏

23rd April, 2019 (Tues)

Metta Lodge Dhamma family are highly encouraged to join the Laughter Yoga Session on every Tuesday morning at Taman Komuniti Melodies, Jalan Nibong, Melodies Gardens conducted by Bro Lim Tuan Chit.

Time:  7 am - 7.30 am

This is a FREE & secular event.
Facebook:
https://goo.gl/2kW9xm

Deaf laughter festival in Johor a first of its kind
Read more at
https://goo.gl/voQbBY

23rd April, 2019 (Tues)

1 Day Meditation Retreat by Ajahn Cagino on 23th April, 2019

导师 Teacher:
Ajahn Cagino 永觉比丘

日期 Date:  23/04/2019 (Tues)

时间 Time : 8:00 am
供僧 Dana : 9.00 am
截止 Closing : 8.00 pm

地点 Venue: Metta Lodge Shrine Hall.
No. 2 Jalan Teratai 15, TAMAN Johore Jaya, 81100

Location
Google map
https://goo.gl/zJIo6X

Waze:
https://waze.to/lr/hw23bf22de

媒介Medium: 华语 Mandarin
Attire : wear white

营费 Retreat Fee
随缘 _There is no fee charged for the retreat but donation is welcome._

For non muslim only

询问 Enquiry :
Sis Ee Seow Lin +60137225602
Bro Lock 0127642075

To Join click link:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/LnVoGFp0lgLLjSpzJsAC1X

27th April, 2019 (Sat)

2019 Buddhist Youth Saturday Activities

Time: 9 am to 11.30 am

28th April,  2019 (Sun)

Sunday morning Puja follow by Hymn singing, fellowship cell group discussion or Broadcasting Dhamma talk

Program:
10 am - 11 am   Puja Chanting
11 am - 12.30 pm   Hymn Singing, cell group discussions or Dhamma talk broadcasting.
12.30 pm Lunch
All are welcome to join.

Please click link to join
https://goo.gl/R18y

28th April, 2019 (Sun)

Fellowship & Dhamma sharing with Bro Dr Wong Yin Onn

Time 7 pm to 9 pm

28th April, 2019 (Sun)

DIPLOMA IN DHAMMA & ABHIDHAMMA by*
*COLOMBO Y.M.B.A. Sri Lanka* ....Dhamma Classes are conducted every  :

1) 2nd SUN of each month
from  12.45 pm to 5.00 pm
2) 4nd. SUN of each month
from 12.45 pm to 5.00 pm
3) 3rd Wed of each month
From 8 pm - 10 pm

Facilitator : Bro T C Lim
For enquiry :
Sis Joanne Lai +60127239181 or

Sis Rose      +6012 9114125
(Available: 2 pm - 6 pm Only )



29th April, 2019 (Mon)

Zhineng Qigong by Sis SK Wong
Time : 8 - 10 pm

https://youtu.be/Wq6Avl1Pppc

30th April, 2019 (Tues)

Metta Lodge Dhamma family are highly encouraged to join the Laughter Yoga Session on every Tuesday morning at Taman Komuniti Melodies, Jalan Nibong, Melodies Gardens conducted by Bro Lim Tuan Chit.

Time:  7 am - 7.30 am

This is a FREE & secular event.
Facebook:
https://goo.gl/2kW9xm

Deaf laughter festival in Johor a first of its kind
Read more at
https://goo.gl/voQbBY

30th April, 2019 (Tues)

Live Streaming video Meditation Guidance

🕖 7:45 pm-9:15 pm

☸网络视频禅修指导
Ajahn Cagino 👤  永觉比丘
Mandarin 🗣华语

Enquiry 📱询问 :
如权  Bro Keh +601128680823
Sis Ee Seow Lim +60 13722 5602

Christchurch Terror Attack

Christchurch Terror Attack

How is it that Humans do These Things to Other Humans?
Ajahn Chandako
March 16 (2019)

Here at Vimutti Buddhist Monastery, we just finished our monthly ‘Day of Peace’ meditation workshop. The timing could not be more pertinent, the title more apropos. Yesterday a gunman killed 49 people in Christchurch mosques, a shock every bit as powerful as the devastating earthquakes, an ethical shaking whose aftershocks rippled quickly around the globe. It is a valid question to ask, ‘why do people do this to each other?’

Attachment to skin colour should be the most obvious delusion. This epidermis is merely a paper-thin wrapping, and like with birthday presents, the more colours the more beautiful. Attachment to our ethnic or cultural background goes more deep. This is social conditioning that forms a large part of who we think we are: our language, our accent, our traditions. A little identification is relatively harmless, as when we celebrate our roots, a shared heritage or the countries from where our families originated. But if that identification grows strong, such that it increasingly divides people rather than uniting them; and if the identification leads to self-aggrandisement and perceiving others as inferior, then that attachment becomes toxic.

Then you throw religion into the mix….

In Buddhism we attempt to let go of our attachment to our views, opinions and beliefs. We are even encouraged not to attach to the words of the Buddha. We certainly will have views, opinions and beliefs, gradually evolving based on our experience, but we emphasise being open to learning from different perspectives and not to believe blindly. In most other religions, however, unwavering belief in the words written in the holy books is praised. This is seen as an expression of dedication, a sign of true commitment. When these beliefs are presented as holding the key to eternal happiness or pain, then attachment to those beliefs can become rigid to the extreme. It is the attachment that is the problem, not the diversity of practices. Political ideology can also function as a religion, a set of beliefs we have faith in, at times to the extreme.

When you combine attachment to religious beliefs, identification with race, enthusiasm for political ideology and a lack of appreciation for cultural differences, you find yourself with a giant pile of tinder dry fuel. When political or religious leaders then soak it with the petrol of fear, all it takes is a match. And it becomes easier to understand why humans do what they do.

Compassion is the result of empathy for the pain and suffering of others. Sometimes we get so busy, it is simply easier to be callous. Sometimes it is just too hard to make the effort to understand people who are different from us. This is understandable, but it hardens our heart. An incident so horrific as a mass shooting of innocents can shock us into remembering compassion. If there is any silver lining at all to these mass shootings, it is that people are reminded—sometimes forced against their will—to open their heart. We then might see that we don’t need a mass shooting in order to empathise with the pain of others. Our family, friends, colleagues and enemies…they all experience pain too.

As important as it is to empathise with the victims, it is also important to empathise with the perpetrator. You can see how quickly people dehumanise the killer: a monster, a demon, insane. This is unrealistic and unhealthy. Rational and sane people are capable of extreme cruelty. But this is uncomfortable to admit. Because we too are rational and sane. None of us here could imagine perpetrating a mass killing, but it is important to admit that we too have the seeds of those actions in our hearts and minds. Anger is dangerous. Defilements are dangerous. Extreme attachment to a belief is dangerous. Ultimately anything that we identify with that divides us from others is pernicious. In small ways we are still capable of aggression and harming others, so even with the killer, it is possible to empathise. We are both the victims and the killer.

How can humans do these things to other humans? If we dismiss this incident as the one-off work of a lone crazy, we not only downplay the danger of the supremacist ideology, we miss the opportunity to learn from the tragedy, and we unwittingly create the causes for it to happen again in the future. It is normal to feel a kinship with people from our same culture, but can we extend that feeling of kinship to all people? This is more difficult. In the past we could more easily avoid this hard work though geographical separation, but in the 21st century mutual understanding becomes a moral imperative with the urgency of survival.

We are not powerless to effect positive change. But how?

Responding to the present situation with compassion;
recognising the danger of anger in our own heart;
understanding the causes that lead to violence;
and taking action from that place of wisdom and understanding;
this is what we can do to increase peace in the world.

To all the victims of violence and their families, please accept our heartfelt sympathy from Vimutti Buddhist Monastery and the Auckland Theravada Buddhist Association. May terrorism and all forms of violence be eradicated through wisdom.

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Thus he who both day and night takes delight in harmlessness sharing love with all that live, finds enmity with none.
SN I 208

The one who has left violence, who never harm any being, who neither kill, nor causes to kill, such one, gentle, is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada  405

The one who is friendly among the hostile, who is harmless among the violent,
who is detached among the greedy, such one is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada 406

He, who injures living beings, is not Noble. He is called Noble, because he is gentle
and kind towards all living beings.
Dhammapada 270

Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger, or irritation,
wish for another to suffer.
Khuddakapatha 9

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No one should feel unsafe in their place of worship. We send #metta to all the victims of the terrorist attacks against #Muslims in New Zealand. 🙏 “We need to think of each other as true brothers and sisters, concerned for each other’s welfare 💛 More fundamental than #religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource – when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually." The #DalaiLama 🙏

Picture by Ruven Afanador for @Time magazine in the gardens of his private residence in Dharamsala, India on February 18, 2019 via Ulla Tashi 🙏




Lesson from Christchurch: Mind your words
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2019/03/16/lesson-from-christchurch-mind-your-words/


Watch a Muslim broadcaster make stark sense of the New Zealand mosque shootings
https://qz.com/1574225/watch-waleed-aly-on-the-new-zealand-mosque-shootings/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=qz-organic.




Food for Thought
About our own backyard.
Opinion in the News
by Dr. Sharifah Munirah Alatas

'... Ego has no place. Race and religion should never be used as a political tool. Mass political behaviour, being what it is, finds comfort in collective grievances. Use these grievances to unite, not to divide.

Politicians and religious leaders should stop their puppet performances. Academics and public intellectuals should get over their egos and write the truth.
Rhetoric and insincerity have no place in post-GE14 Malaysia. The main takeaway from the Christchurch terrorist act is that the ticking time bomb was wired by political rhetoric and self-serving leaders in the first place. The result is a growing global polarisation between nations, religions and ethnicities.

Let us start to work together, amidst our diversity. This is not a rhetorical request.'

Read in full here...
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2019/03/17/the-ticking-time-bomb-of-hatred/