Yesterday, Samita’s president has signed the contract to purchase land in Engreux, Belgium for a new Bhikkhuni monastery!
We can now start to look at plans for the new buildings together with the architect and ask for quotes from building firms. Still a long way to go but the first step has been made.
I’m also very grateful to Bhante Sujato for being the spiritual adviser for this project!
In the future, I look forward to muscling in on this map of yours as well, so as to plot all the wonderful surrounding Buddhist activity that flourishes as a result.
Now, I’m not as reverent as I should be in all instances, but if Bhante Sujato says heaven is Perth, Australia, I’ve enough reverence to not go messing around with that.
it must be a multilayered issue, but if it could be in two words explained what the problem with CETA is, i’ve seen it being protested against in Germany
Tee-hee! Excellent! Shows me the foolishness of being a bit indifferent towards Buddhist cosmology. I’d better roll up my sleeves and do some book-learnin’, which heaven does Samita correspond to?
Shows you also the strange setup of the Belgian parliament … Wallonie is only part of the country so they have a parliament of their own and the federal government has nothing to say in this matter. There are actually 7 governments in all for a population of just over 11 million people. So having the longest government formation session of nearly 2 years some time back (so that means 2 years without a federal government!) is no problem at all. Things just keep ticking over.
Yikes! That’s a boat-load of responsibility, I think maybe it should have been put to Samita’s board.
I’m not in a position to do the appropriate research, so I’ll just have to go with Tāvatiṃsā remembering that the first half of DN21 almost made me weep with laughter when I first read it, and likewise the second half for other reasons. It sounds like a good, fruity, bunch hangout in Tāvatiṃsā.
Based on available description I think the fit is okay: the plot purchased is roughly 640,000km, right? The picture on your website suggests you’re fairly tall, and I think rounding it up to 45720cm gives a reasonable approximation, and by the above it seems as though your parliamentarians have an Asuran streak. I’ll add it to the map.