famous pa auk meditation in burma

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帕奥禅修中心(新加坡)－－PA-AUK MEDITATION CENTRE (SINGAPORE) -- 15 Teo Kim Eng Road, Singapore 416385 Tel: (65)6611 9242 Fax: (65)6611 9242

Registered on 20.8.2007, vide Republic of Singapore Government Gazette Notification No.2555 dated 22.8.2007

Pa-Auk Meditation Centre “PAMC”, established as a direct lineage of the Pa-Auk Forest Monastery “Pa-Auk”, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, is dedicated to the Sangha of Pa-Auk. The Spiritual Patron of PAMC is Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw, the Abbot of Pa-Auk.

PAMC promotes the learning and practice of Samatha and Vipassana meditation based on the teachings of the Lord Gotama Buddha, as taught by the Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw, by:

*providing a conducive venue for the learning and practice of meditation under the guidance of authorised teacher(s)

*organising regular meditation retreats, courses and Dhamma talks based on the Pali Texts (Tipitaka) and its commentaries, taught by teachers authorised by the Sayadaw (and/or the Sangha)

*publishing of Dhamma books and CDs of Dhamma talks approved by Pa-Auk.

Our vision is to establish a meditation retreat centre with facilities for long-term learning and practice by both monastics and lay meditators. The meditation retreat centre will provide an environment conducive for the undertaking of the Threefold Training (of the Noble Eightfold Path) of Sila, Samadhi and Panna, that will systematically purify one’s body, speech and mind (of defilements) in order to realise Nibbana, a state of supreme peace and happiness.

In the longer term, we hope to have a Sangha residing in Singapore, so that the Sadhamma (true teachings of the Buddha) will be taught and practised, will take root, develop and sustain, and will flourish in Singapore and beyond, for the welfare and happiness of all.

新加坡帕奥禅修中心为位于缅甸毛淡棉市的帕奥禅林的直属分院。它是特为帕奥禅林的僧团而成立的。中心的精神导师为帕奥禅林的住持 --- 帕奥禅师。

本中心提倡修习根据帕奥禅师指导的佛陀教法里的止禅及观禅。本中心的理念为：

*提供一个修习禅法的适当场所，让大众在专门的导师指导下修禅

*定期主办禅修营，以及由禅师或帕奥僧团认证的导师主持以巴利三藏或其注解为基础之佛法课程及开示

*发行帕奥认可的佛法书籍及佛法开示光碟

我们的愿景是为出家及在家信众设立一所设备齐全、提供长期修习的禅修中心。此禅修中心将能够提供一个适当的环境让信众修习八正道之戒、定、慧三学，以系统化的方式清净我们的身、口、意，以达到一个至上的祥和及快乐境界 – 证悟涅磐。

我们的长期目标是希望僧团能够常驻于新加坡，以让佛陀正法能于此地被教导及修习、扎根、发展、久住及繁盛，更发扬至其他地区，让所有众生快乐及受益。

You may wish to know that

Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw

is expected back in Singapore in December 2010

最新消息：

帕奥禅师

将于12月莅临新加坡。

Meditation hall and sãma, the Upper Monastery

Pa-Auk Forest Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the Theravàda tradition, with emphasis on the teaching and practice of both Samatha (tranquility) and Vipassanà (insight) meditation. Situated in a forest along the Taung Nyo Mountain range in , Mon StateMyanmar, the monastery provides a conducive setting for the practice of long-term, intensive meditation. Presently, there are over 100 foreign meditators, originating from over 20 countries, residing in the monastery.

Teaching:

• Mindfulness-of-Breathing (ànàpànassati) - to develop absorption concentration (the four jhànas)
• Most of the 40 Samatha subjects taught by The Buddha - including loving-kindness (mettà) meditation, the thirty-two parts of the body, the ten kasiõas and the four immaterial jhànas
• Four-Elements Meditation - to analyze ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality
• Dependent Origination - to discern past, present and future lives by analyzing their causes and conditions
• Vipassanà Meditation - to discern the five aggregates (materiality and mentality) as impermanent, subject to suffering and without a self

Training:

• Training and separate accommodations for monks, nuns and male/female lay practitioners
• Strong support and guidance for those who wish to ordain
• Regular interviews with qualified meditation teachers (who speak English)
• Vegetarian diet, including both white and whole-grain brown rice

Facilities:

• A large meditation hall for men and a separate meditation hall for women
• Over 280 kuñis (single meditator huts), many located in secluded areas of the forest
• A clinic and a sick-bay with doctors trained in both conventional Western and traditional Burmese herbal medicine
• A large new library with titles in English, Chinese, Burmese and Pàli

The Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw

The Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw is the abbot and principal teacher at Pa-Auk Forest Monastery. The Sayadaw speaks fluent English and has been teaching foreign meditators here since the early 1990's.