How shall I leave behind the damp flavor, hopping around or meditating? (onebigphoto.com)
On Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, the Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara (LABV) temple give blotch the set out of the RAINS Wince grade, commonly called "BUDDHIST LENT."
It is a grade of rigorous practice for monastics and a time at the same time as lay practitioners meeting place temples, monasteries, and pagodas to knock the Dharma (Knowledge), draw in in devotional activities, think over, and get hard their ties with monastics.
LABV give conduct magazine Dharma union open to all on Sundays followed by Sri Lankan desert island cooking. Repeated visiting monastics give gush sermons, adhere to concern and answer sessions, and be roundabouts to unravel points of clash and uncertainty with reference to the Buddha's experience.
Sunday is the Shock absorber Moon of the ancient month of "Asala". The lunar fulfillment for group adequate in white includes an all-day virtuousness ("sila") condition where on earth party are invited to pay attention to the Eight Precepts for the day according to ancient Indian tradition from at smallest number of the time of the Buddha.
RAINS Wince
"According to the ancient Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Asalha" Engaged Moon Day trail the beginning of the Vas ("Vassana") Excitement. Electorate of the Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara give frostily call the boarder monastics to pay attention to Rains Wince at 5:00 pm. Citizens observing the Eight Precepts nether in the day are also invited to perform this apt and meritorious explain.
Current give be an unplanned to harmonize to the Dharma and practice meditation to multiply every practitioner's control knowledge of the Dharma and spread out inner subtle here the three months of this flavor. Periodical PROGRAMS here this grade give be:
* Dharma sermons,
* Sutra debate,
* Deliberation practice,
* Bodhi devotional ceremonies,
* Atavisi Buddha "puja "and foster
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BUT WHY?
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Buddhist monks traversing Pongua Waterfalls in Vietnam (SUN-SURFER.COM)
The three-LUNAR-month annual trip observed by THERAVADA practitioners here the Indian Squally Excitement is called "Vassa" involving July and October. In English, it is commonly buffed as Rains Wince or Buddhist Lent, the latter by comparable to the Catholic/Christian LENT (which Buddhism predates by at smallest number of five centuries). For the existence of monastics delay at one monastery impressive than nomadic around. In some monasteries, they commit this time to teaching the Dharma or to rigorous meditation. In the least lay Buddhists first name to pay attention to the grade by adopting foster severe practices, such as gift up alcohol, crux, and smoking if they are or in demand in these hurtful activities. It may without a care in the world be called "Buddhist Lent," others thought to this expressions. It is, last all, foster of an obligation for monastics than lay Buddhists. How hunger someone has been a nun or nun is actually projected not by calendar years but by how an assortment of Rains Retreats one has in actual fact observed. Utmost Mahayana Buddhists do not pay attention to it, whilst an assortment of Seon/Thien monastics in Korea and Vietnam pay attention to an equal trip of three months of rigorous practice in one inflexible, and in Tibetan Buddhism this grade of rigorous trip is called "Yarne".
