15 September – 4 October 2017
Our theme for the delegation is Great Compassion as embodied by Guan Yin Bodhisattva.
Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva (or simply “Guan Yin”) is considered an embodiment of Great Compassion. Her name literally means “She who Hears the Cries of the World.” As a Bodhisattva who is dedicated to the welfare of all beings, she listens deeply to each of our sounds and responds accordingly.
The event held in Poland will give us a chance to investigate more deeply into many aspects of great compassion and wisdom embodied by Guan Yin Bodhisattva. We will be encouraging everyone to discover all of these qualities that comes from the same source that is found within us.
Visit in Europe contains:
London 15th – 21th September
Warsaw 21th – 30th September
Krakow 30th September – 3rd October
Delegation
monks:
Bhikshu Heng Sure
Bhikshu Heng Chiang Shr
Bhikshu Jin Xiao Shr
Bhikshu Jin He Shr
nuns:
Bhikshuni Heng Re
Bhikshuni Heng Yi
Bhikshuni Heng Rong
Bhikshuni Jin Ying
Bhikshuni Heng Yuan
and special guest from Service Space
ServiceSpace is an organization run entirely by volunteers. We leverage technology to encourage everyday people around the world to do small acts of service. Our aim is to ignite the fundamental generosity in ourselves and others, creating both inner and outer transformation.
ServiceSpace was conceived by volunteers, was built by volunteers, and is run by volunteers — all for the benefit of volunteers. Our projects range from a daily positive news service, to an acts-of-kindness portal, to a gift-economy restaurant. Regardless of the endeavor, we act in concert to create service opportunities for each other and to support each other’s service journeys.
In September of 2011, we formally changed our name from CharityFocus to ServiceSpace. Founded in 1999, ServiceSpace was originally started to help non-profits with technical services. Over the past dozen years, the organization has become an umbrella for many generosity-driven projects. Thus we have expanded our services from focusing just on helping charities, to encouraging everyday people to contribute in meaningful ways to the world around them. As the name suggests, our new expanded ServiceSpace platform allows people to stay connected with others interested in service, participate in service opportunities through any of our dozen projects, organize their own local service event using our tools, and stay connected to inspirational content. Above all, we believe in the inherent generosity of others and aim to ignite that spirit of service. Through our small, collective acts, we hope to transform ourselves and the world.
Nipun Mehta
Audrey Lin
England 15th September – 21th September 2017
Schedule of events:
17th September (Sunday): 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Lecture : ‘ Why do Buddha regard Patience as the supreme practice?’’
followed with a Q&A session at 3.00 p.m – 4 p.m. in Theravada Monastery Amaravati
– Ajahn Chah’s forest tradition
Address:
St Margarets, Great Gaddesden
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 3BZ
For more information:
18th September (Monday): 7:00 pm Lecture Awakin Talk by Rev. Heng Sure: ‘Cultivating Compassion in Uncertain Times: What would the Buddha Do?’
hosted by Service Space
Address:
St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.
78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
(nearest Tube station Liverpool Street)
For more information:
https://www.servicespace.org/event/view.php?eid=6984
20th September (Wednesday): 6:00 pm Three steps and a Bow: Awaking Circle with Rev. Heng Sure hosted by Service Space, Pimlico, London
For more information:
https://www.servicespace.org/event/view.php?eid=6934
Poland (Warszaw and Krakow)
21st September – 4th October 2017 r.
Warsaw
22rd September (Friday): 7.00 p.m – 10.00 p.m
Edward A. Burger’s “One Mind” at Cinema Elektronik
Kino Elektronik Ul. Generała Zajączka 7, 01-518 Warszawa
8:30 -10:00 pm questions and answers session with Rev. Heng Sure – the chairman of the Delegation of monks and nuns of the city of 10,000 Buddhas.
“One mind” is a rare film image of one of China’s most severed and respected communities in China. Minisi Monastery Chan Zhenru follow the strict monastic principles created over 1200 years ago by the patriarchs of the founders of Zen in China. In harmony with their land, they run a farm, grow tea and collect bamboo for fuel in the kitchen. At the heart of this community, an isolated group of meditation practitioners sits in silence for 8 hours a day. The impressive zen version of “Great Mind” (Die grose Stille, directed by Philip Groning, 2005) “One Mind” proposes a personal look at the thriving Buddhist community in modern China.
Registration is required , Click to register
23rd September (Saturday): 6.00 p.m – 8.00 p.m
evening in Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku (Asia Pacific Museum),
Adress ul. Solec 24, 00-001 Warszawa.
”Songs of great compassion – Guan Yin in the music”
Performer: Rev Heng Sure
Rev. Heng Sure will share original English-language Buddhist folk songs (in the style of Pete Seeger,) based on Guan Yin Bodhisattva, the enlightened being of Great Compassion. Playing guitar and banjo, Rev. Sure will invite the audience to sing along as devotion to Avalokitesvara
Fee for Museum – 10 zł, No registration
24th September (Sunday): 9.00 p.m.– 13/14.00 p.m
Visit at the Buddhist Vietnam Temple “NHAN HOA”
Ul. Przyszłości 21A , 05-552 Łazy, Lesznowola, Piaseczno.
Meeting with Vietnamese monks and the Vietnamese community, Dharma talks and lunch.
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
24th September (Sunday): 6.00 p.m.– 8.00 p.m
evening in Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku (Asia Pacific Museum),
ul. Solec 24, 00-001 Warszawa.
“Guan Yin Bodhisattva and the Many Faces of Compassion”
Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure
In this lecture, Rev Heng Sure will investigate how Guan Yin Bodhisattva (Avalokitesvara) provides, for Buddhists in Asia and the West as well, a feminine representation of Great Compassion (Mahakaruna) .
No registration, free of charge
25th September (Monday) : 7.00 p.m.– 8.30 p.m ,
Karma Dechen Chöling – Center of Mahayana Buddhism,
Address: ul. Jana Nowaka Jeziorańskiego 49/U12, 03-982 Warszawa
“Avatamsaka Sutra ABCs “
Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure
An introduction to the Buddha’s teaching on the Bodhisattva path, providing a “practice-centered” interpretation of the compassionate aspects of the Flower Garland Sutra, a text often considered to be a pinnacle of Buddhist philosophy and cosmology.
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
26th September (Tuesday): 7.00 p.m.– 9.00 p.m
Związek Buddystów Zen “Bodhidharma”,
Address: Filmowa 32, 04-935 Warszawa – Falenica
Tea & Dharma
Speakers: Rev. Heng Sure, monks and nuns from City of 10.000 Buddhas, and laity.
In the roundtable conversation format, this session will provide an opportunity to ask questions face-to-face with Buddhist monastics and laity.
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
28th September (Thursday): 7.00 p.m.– 8.30 p.m ,
Karma Dechen Chöling – Center of Mahayana Buddhism,
Address: ul. Jana Nowaka Jeziorańskiego 49/U12, 03-982 Warszawa
Buddhism in the Contemporary World – Discussion panel
Panelists:
Rev. Heng Sure – City of Ten Thousand Buddhas , California
Lama Rinchen -The main Lama of the Benchen Center in Grabnik
Wojciech Czypicki – President of Foundation Theravada Poland
Tomasz Szczygielski – Marpa Institute , Host & Moderator
1) Beyond Mindfulness: Taking your mindfulness out of the meditation hall;
2) Environmental Impact of the Three Aspects of Existence: Dukkha, Anatta, Anicca (Suffering, not-self and impermanence)
3) The Buddhist Sangha as a Role Model for Sustainability in the 21st Century
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
29th September (Friday): 8.00 a.m.– 10.0 a.m
Ośrodek Bodhidharma, Filmowa 32, 04-935 Warszawa – Falenica,
Transmission of Three Refuges and Five Precepts
Ceremony of formal enter on the Buddhist Path and becoming disciple of the Buddha (sanskrit Upasaka/Upasika)
29th September (Friday): 7.00 p.m.– 9.00 p.m ,
Karma Dechen Chöling – Center of Mahayana Buddhism,
Address: ul. Jana Nowaka Jeziorańskiego 49/U12, 03-982 Warszawa
With presents Rev. Heng Sure, Niphun Metha from Berkeley in California – the founder of Service Space and Awakin Circle and Sheetal Sanghvi , Khushmita Sanghvi from Pune in India and Audrey Lin from Oakland in California – friends from Service Space
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
Krakow
30rd September (Saturday): 7.00 p.m – 10.00 p.m
Edward A. Burger’s “One Mind” at Cinema Elektronik
Kino Pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, 30-001 Kraków
8:30 -10:00 pm questions and answers session with Rev. Heng Sure – the chairman of the Delegation of monks and nuns of the city of 10,000 Buddhas.
“One mind” is a rare film image of one of China’s most severed and respected communities in China. Minisi Monastery Chan Zhenru follow the strict monastic principles created over 1200 years ago by the patriarchs of the founders of Zen in China. In harmony with their land, they run a farm, grow tea and collect bamboo for fuel in the kitchen. At the heart of this community, an isolated group of meditation practitioners sits in silence for 8 hours a day. The impressive zen version of “Great Mind” (Die grose Stille, directed by Philip Groning, 2005) “One Mind” proposes a personal look at the thriving Buddhist community in modern China.
1st October (Sunday) 11.00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Vegetarian restaurant Cafe Młynek,
Plac Wolnica 7, 31-060 Kraków
Special Guest: Nipun Mehta, founder Karma Kitchen and friends from Service Space
First time in Poland! Everyone is welcome!
Imagine a restaurant where there are no prices on the menu and where the check reads $0.00 with only this footnote: “Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those who dine after you.” Run by volunteers, our meals are cooked and served with love, and offered to the guest as a genuine gift. To complete the full circle of giving and sustain this experiment, guests make contributions in the spirit of pay-it-forward to those who will come after them. In keeping this chain going, the generosity of both guests and volunteers helps to create a future that moves from transaction to trust, from self-oriented isolation to shared commitment, and from fear of scarcity to celebration of abundance. Movie about Karma Kitchen
1st October (Sunday) 7.00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m
Vegetarian restaurant Cafe Młynek,
Plac Wolnica 7, 31-060 Kraków
With presents Rev. Heng Sure, Niphun Metha from Berkeley in California – the founder of Service Space and Awakin Circle and Sheetal Sanghvi , Khushmita Sanghvi from Pune in India and Audrey Lin from Oakland in California – friends from Service Space
Event is free of charge
Registration is required , Click to register
3rd October (Tuesday) 4.00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure Ph.D. – City of Ten Thousand Buddhas/ Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Ukiah , California
Historically, wherever Buddhism traveled it changed each new culture it encountered and was in turn changed by each culture. Western culture, with its emphasis on science, psychology, democracy and anthropocentrism will likely follow the pattern and feel the influence of Buddhism’s teachings. Here are four areas where that influence will perhaps first appear.
Event is free of charge