About the Event:
This event is donation-based, will take place via Zoom, and is open to all ages. The Zoom link will be sent 24 hours before the event upon registration.
In the style of Theravāda Buddhist monastic practice, Ayyā Medhānandī will guide us on a brief sojourn into the solitude and silence of deep inner listening. With profound awareness, we learn to see our true condition, opening the inner Dharma gates to a fearlessness and a fount of joy from which great compassion and unshakeable peace arise. As we bring the low and high tides of the heart into balance, we shall resonate with the exquisiteness of all things.
The event schedule will be as follows:
SCHEDULE:
2:00 – 2:30 pm Sign-in to Zoom, Welcome & Precepts
2:30 – 3:00 Guided Sitting Meditation
3:00 – 3;30 Walking Meditation: Instructions & Practice
3:30 – 4:00 Sitting Meditation
4:00 – 4:10 Break
4:10 – 5:15 Dhamma talk, Q & A
5:15 – 6:00 Loving-Kindness Practice & Closing
About Ayyā Medhānandī:
Ayyā Medhānandī is the founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a Theravāda forest monastery for women, established in her native Canada in 2007. Her meditation experience spans 51 years, 33 of them as an alms-mendicant nun. Ayyā was ordained as a sāmaneri (novice) by Sayadaw U Pandita in Myanmar in March, 1988. Nearly 20 years later, she fulfilled her long-held wish for full ordination as a bhikkhunī in Taiwan, thus joining a wave of pioneer women restoring the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Sangha in our era.