Small Title (13.01.16)
Moving in to
a City Centre
23rd May 2016
at Jayanthi pura Battaramulla
As the numbers of meditators grew in size, the living premises of the house of a devotee was not adequate. A larger place for exclusive use became a necessity. Once again the Nirodha City Centre idea needed to be implemented. However as there was not enough funds we were unable to purchase a land and build a City centre or buy a building, nor was a place offered for the City centre.
Therefore Nirodha needed to rent a place and money was needed to pay the rent.
Buddhist Devotees in Sri Lanka are used to supporting temples and monks, but they were unaccustomed to developing and supporting a meditation centre.
After many trials and errors and a few teething problems, the practitioners came to understand and collectively
supported towards maintaining the Centre, rather than confining to one-off meritorious actions.
The City Centre was established in a small 3 roomed upstair house with small hall downstairs suitable for a meditation hall. The premises were located close to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in a quiet neighborhood.
Nirodha yogi Abeyratne Jayasundera negotiated and leased out the premises for the Centre and Nirodha Treasurer Ms. D. Jayasinghe handled the rental and other utility payments & expenses of the City Centre.
With the generosity of the practicing yogis, the Nirodha community grew. The City centre had many weekly classes and many retreats were instigated while in residence here.
Restarting the Nirodha City Centre proved to be beneficial for the practitioners, hence the continuation of a City Centre was a necessity even after the Battaramulla premises had to be vacated at the request of the land owners.
The premises were used as the City Centre for over 3 years and Nirodha is thankful that the house owners maintained the same rental at Rs.100,000/= per month throughout this period.
2016 Right From the Start Series
23rd May 2016
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Beginner Retreat Hanwella
23rd May 2016
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Day Retreat
23rd May 2016
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Higher ordination
23rd May 2016
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Generosity cover
23rd May 2016
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Meditation Program
23rd May 2016
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Meditation Session
23rd May 2016
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Retreat in Loenen
23rd May 2016
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In the Tea Garden
23rd May 2016
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Retreat at
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23rd May 2016
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Times in Netherlands
23rd May 2016
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Teacher Trainee Retreat
23rd May 2016
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Retreat in Mallorca
23rd May 2016
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Walking with Bhanté G. since 1985
10th Apr 2016
the more interesting the Dhamma point, the faster he walked
As Bhikkhu Samadhikusalo says, walking with Bhanté Gunaratana and being his student is synonymous. In 1985 Dhammaruwan was invited to participate in a retreat in Australia by then Elizabeth Gorski, now an ordained monastic. Both Bhanté Gunaratana and Bhikkhu Samadhikusalo often relate how they met when Bhanté Gunaratana came to Sydney in 1985. Someone contacted Elizabeth to give a lift to Bhanté Gunaratana from the Sydney railway station to the Sri Lankan temple, and since it was a single monk to accompany her, she invited Dhammaruwan where they first met and subsequently traveled together in 1985 in Sydney and the surrounding areas, This was a beginning of a wonderful student and teacher relationship which developed Dhammaruwan to be Bhanté Gunaratana’s kappiya several times, temporarily be ordained as Samanera Dhammaratana and finally in 2016 to permanently ordain as his student.
This student-teacher relationship running over four decades was filled with various anecdotes; Dhamma teaching and learning; learning about a monks’ life and life in general and most of all as Bhikkhu Samadhikusalo says it was a constant attempt to keep up with Bhanté Gunaratana in Dhamma, monks life and the hardest being in walking as then he had a steady stride in walking five miles at a stretch. Bhikkhu Samadhikusalo says when he gets tired of walking and slows down, then Bhanté Gunaratana used to say some interesting Dhamma point so that he would somehow keep up with Bhante G. and the more interesting the Dhamma point, the faster he walked, Bhanté Gunaratana shared his life stories and the time was always spent with a lot of smiles and laughter.
Walking with Bhanté G. 1985
Dhammaruwan (17) - the first walk at Wiseman’s Ferry, Sydney on the way to the monastery Wat BuddhaDhamma.
Accompanying Bhante G. 1985
Traveling with Bhanté Gunaratana in Australia, here having lunch at the Centre Point Tower.
Ordination
10th Apr 2016
Ordination Ceremony of
Venerable Samadhikusala
On April 10, 2016, Dhammaruwan who has been a student of Bhanté Henepola Gunaratana Nayaka Maha Thero for over 30 years took permanent ordination in a ceremony held at Bhavana Society’s Forest Monastery in West Virginia, USA.
The ceremony was presided by Bhanté Henepola Gunaratana Nayaka Maha Thero in the presence of Dhammaruwan’s long time friend Venerable Analayo, close meditation students of Dhammaruwan who came for the ordination from Europe, U.K. and other parts of America. Among them were: Yogis Suzanne Djeisterhaus, Mark Vangalderen, Johnny Ward and Richard Branca, the resident monks of Bhavana Society, and Maryland Vihara’s Venerable Katugastota Uparatana.
Many lay devotees were in attendance and offered lunch dana for the monks and guests.
In the ordination ceremony Bhanté G., approved and conferred Dhammaruwan with the monastic name of “Samadhikusalo” choosing this name to honour a commitment that Dhammaruwan had made to Late Venerable Ampitiya Rahula Maha Thero to whom he had promised to take the name “Samadhikusalo” if and when he ordained permanently.
