Thay Thông Pháp: Letting Go in Order to Gain the Treasure

Description

This is the first in a series of 5 talks focusing on Thay’s personal experience of renunciation / nekkhamma / letting go in the development of the monastic life. Thay look at the roots of his own “call of the heart” founded in the Christian tradition with his own Buddhist interpretation of five texts from the Gospel of Matthew.

Speaker

Thích Trúc Thông Pháp is a bhikkhu (fully ordained monk) in a Vietnamese meditation tradition. His teacher is the Most Venerable Thầy Thích Thanh Từ, a meditation master in the Truc Lam (Bamboo Forest) school. Originating from Port Adelaide in South Australia and then Tasmania from 2010- 2017, he now lives in the Southern Flinders Ranges with a small community of Anglican religious brothers and sisters. He has a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences (Counselling) and a Diploma in Psychosynthesis and was the Buddhist representative chaplain at the University of Tasmania for four years prior to working for four years as the Buddhist chaplain at Oasis, the multifaith chaplaincy centre at Flinders University, SA.

Info

View live on Zoom from 7.25pm on the night. Talks include meditation and generally conclude at 9pm. Download iCal calendar for the Zoom event.

• Meeting ID: 985 1050 0274
• Passcode: 645945