Forest Sangha Newsletter
October 2002
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Editorial:
 Suffering Should Be Welcomed; Luang Por Sumedho
Reading the Heart; Upasika Kee Nanayon
Mudita: Shared Enjoyment; Ajahn Sucitto
Reflections; Ajahn Pannasaro
Mt. Kailash; Luang Por Sumedho
Nourishing our Hearts; Sister Thaniya
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Observance Days
 On these days the community devotes itself to quiet reflection and meditation. Visitors are welcome to join in the evening meditation vigils, and on the Full and New moon, there is an opportunity to determine the Eight Precepts for the night.

Moon Phase
 half new half full
OCTOBER 29 - Tues 6 - Sun 14 - Mon *21 - Mon
NOVEMBER
27 - Wed
 4 - Mon 12 - Tues 19 - Tues
DECEMBER
27 - Fri
 4 - Wed 12 - Thurs 19 - Thurs
JANUARY 25 - Sat 2 - Thurs 10 - Fri 17 - Fri

* Pavarana Day (Vassa ends)         The Buddhist New Year (2546) starts: 24th November



The Island

There's a mountain that stands for everything.
There's a valley that empties everything.
There's a sky that blesses everything.
There's a soil that gives back everything.

Little want pores over the maps and charts;
then runs around the hopeful world;
then ransacks the jewelled cosmos....
The abyss sucks it whimpering back.

So then, where could attention surrender...?
But there's the near side of nowhere-
intimate, dangerous, untrodden.
The abundant.

Yours. Mine. Everything's.