Dear friends,

 

I hope you are well and healthy in this cold weather. This year is slowly coming to an end and the new one is starting very soon, and we have again prepared a wide and rich program and news from Karuṇā Sevena for 2023 - see information below. 

Thank you to all of you who came to celebrate the Kaṭhina with us, brought gifts and participated in the preparations. The celebration was a great success.

Here is a short video of the Kaṭhina 2022 celebration

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Calendar for the New Year 2023

 

We have prepared a wide range of activities and programme for next year 2023. Interested parties can apply now, places are limited. So don't hesitate, this year's courses are already fully booked.

Before any stay and visit to ārāmā Karuṇā Sevena, it is important to be well acquainted with the running of the monastery and its rules. For details, please click HERE.

 

 

Journey to Sri Lanka

 

Like every year, Venerable Bhikkhunī Visuddhi will be travelling in winter

to Sri Lanka. She plans to spend time at her home monastery with her senior

bhikkhunis and her teacher, Bhante Pemasiri. Her teachers are not in the

best of health at the moment, so the Venerable would like to be close to them.

She would also like to help people in need again. The situation in Sri Lanka

is still a crisis.

Here you can learn more about our Venerable Bhikkhunī Visuddhi

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Donation options

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• If you are interested in donating to Venerable bhikkhunī Visuddhi for airfare and transportation in Sri Lanka, you can send your donations to our Karuna Sevena bank account: 000000-6855804001/5500; IBAN: CZ6755000000006855804001; SWIFT: RZBCCZPP 

• If you are interested in donating to bhikkhunīs and underprivileged families in Sri Lanka, please send your financial donations to our Suriya Lamai bank Account: 6855679001/5500; IBAN: CZ4955000000006855679001; SWIFT: RZBCCZPP

• If you are interested in sending material gifts for the nuns, please send them to our address Karuna Sevena, Slezská 3, Prostějov, 796 01 (we will send you more details by mail)

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Dhamma dāna by Venerable bhikkhunī Visuddhi

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1. The Venerable Bhikkhunī Visuddhi has prepared a new website for you. Recently many of you have expressed interest in the courses on death meditation and mettā.  Here you can read more about these modes of practice:

Maraṇānussati | Mindfulness of Death, Mettā | Developing Loving Kindness

 

2. The basic texts of the Theravāda teachings are contained in the so-called Pāli Canon, the oldest known set of Buddhist texts, written in Sri Lanka in the middle of the first century BC in the pāḷi language. Below you will find a rich library of these early Buddhist texts:

Tipiṭaka | Early Buddhist Texts

 

3. Pāli term kamma literally means deed or action. Any kind of free activity, whether mental, verbal or physical, is considered kamma. It includes all that is contained in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Generally speaking, all good and bad actions constitute kamma. In its highest sense, kamma means all moral and immoral volition. Unwitting, unintentional or unconscious acts, though technically deeds, do not constitute kamma because volition, the most important factor in determining kamma, is absent.

"All living beings have kamma as their possession."

Kamma | Act, action

 

4. Uposatha is a Buddhist festival that has been celebrated since the time of the Buddha (600 BC) and is still observed by Buddhists today. The Buddha taught that the day of Uposatha serves to "purify the defiled mind," leading to inner peace and joy. People of an intellectual type are often drawn to meditation. Their great need is to slow down their mind, to stop the unnecessary round of speculation and commentary, so that it can enter a state of calm from which they can observe how things really are, free from misconceptions and pre-judgments. Those who are naturally devoted, on the other hand, run the risk of not changing anything, of remaining content with this state. But the practice of devotion alone is not enough. Meditation is necessary to deepen progress in the Buddha's teachings. In fact, the religious practices are teaching aids that point to the necessity of devoting oneself completely to this training. For this reason, religious practices can also be appreciated by intellectual types. This way of understanding serves to enhance motivation and reminds us in the simplest way of what should be paramount to our minds. They are illustrative of the lesson we should establish at the very beginning of our meditation practice.

Pūjā |Offerings , Uposatha
 

 

DONATION TO KARUṆĀ SEVENA

 

We appreciate your precious donations. Thanks to your generosity, Venerable Bhikkhunī can continue to live her monastic life. May your merits bring you good health and peace of mind. 

 

 - If you wish to financially support Venerable Visuddhi, feel free to check the link bellow for more information. 

https://www.karunasevena.cz/donation-options

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 - If you would like to send a food donation, feel free to contact

the ārāma or send us an email to define the details

of the delivery.

If you are not able to personally deliver it, there is the

possibility to order food online and have it delivered to the

ārāma. A number of supermarkets, restaurants, and cafes

have the free-delivery option. We invite you to check with your

selected shop for more information.

 

BLOG 

 

If you haven’t check it out yet, you are warmly welcome to

read the new Karuṇā Sevena blog. We regularly update it with

news, information about Bhikkhunī Saṅgha, Sri Lanka, etc.

There, you can also find the latest updates about the donation campaigns for Suriya Lamai and SOS Help for Sri Lanka. 

 

Feel free to read more: https://www.karunasevena.cz/blog

BOOK AND AUDIO RECORDINGS 

We are writing and translating some more Dhamma books and audio recordings to add to our website.  Venerable Bhikkhuni Visuddhi is currently finalizing a Dhamma book that is due for publication next year. Now, it is also possible to play our audio recordings on various streaming services. . For your information, at the moment we only have audios in Czech, but we would be grateful if any of you who is a native English speaker or who has been living in an English speaking country for many years would be happy to record the audios in English for our international practitioners. If you are interested in helping us out with this, please contact us. 
 

Also, we are planning to produce downloadable applications for you. If you have anyone with experience in their production and want to help us, contact us at our email.

Thank you.

Here there are the links to streaming services in Czech:
Spotify; Apple podcast; Google podcast; Castbox; PodBean

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