Bhantes @Sujato and @Akaliko have been established in their new vihara in Western Sydney since the beginning of the year. Rumour has it that things are going well.
If you are a Sydneysider notice that they maintain a calendar that shows where they are going to be at any time. You could invite the monks for house dana and ask them for
3 refuges and 5 precepts
Anumodana and sharing of merits
Dhamma drop
Paritta chanting
(If you don’t know what a Dhamma drop is, you’ll need to check out the website. )
I like the website (nice use of @yodha doodles too) and the apocalyptic humour also (all that’s lacking now is some Coppola-esque “Ride of the Valkyries” style music playing in the background ). All the social media and online calendar stuff makes for an interesting modern twist to organizing home dana etc. Kind of makes me wish I was living on the other side of the planet!
Wait, one point of clarification: I get the whole apocalypse thing, but is “the end of the world” also (at least partially) meant to be a reference to Australia?
Here are the three “end of the world” meanings as stated on the website:
There are three different meanings I was thinking about. The first references the Rohitassa Suttawhere the Buddha likens Enlightenment to reaching the end of the world. The second is that we are living in an age of climate change which means the world as we know it is pretty much ending. The third is about our location, in the Sydney suburb Harris Park, which many people might think is in the middle of nowhere; even the end of the world!
This may be not the best place to post this but if you speak of apocalypse, the climate is of course the main subject.
It’s incredible that politicians still keep burrying their heads in the sand while school children go on strike and doing an amazing job. I think Greta, Anuna and Kyra deserve a huge applause!
Here is Greta (16) speaking to the EU parliament with Anuna and Kyra and others by her side a few days ago. They brought hundreds of thousands of children on the streets to protest in the last months.