April '10 Newsletter

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EHIPASSIKO

Wesak Day is approaching very soon. Wesak Day is a very special day which commemorates the three important events in the life of the Buddha- His Birth, Enlightenment and Passing Away. These events took place on the full moon day in the lunar month of Vesakha, which falls between April and May in our calendar. For the month of April and May, the newsletters will be illustrating the significance of Wesak by showing the story, the Life of the Buddha, in a graphical story.

This is the first part of the animated movie, The Legend of the Buddha.

Taken from the 1994 movie Little Buddha, starring Keanu Reeves

The story began more than 2500 years ago, in an small ancient kingdom of Sākya, located at the border of modern India and Nepal. The ruler of the kingdom, King Suddhodana and his queen, Maya did not have children after twenty years into their marriage. Until one night, according to legend,
Queen Maya dreamt of a white elephant, holding a white lotus flower in its trunk, appearing and went round her three times, entering her womb through her right side. Finally the elephant disappeared and the queen awoke, knowing she had been delivered an important message. She was getting pregnant.

Months after that incident, the Queen was very pregnant and was brought back to her hometown of Koliya because of the custom at that period. Along the journey from Kapilavattu, the Queen ordered the procession to stop for a rest at Lumbini Park. As she was resting under a sala tree, her birth began and a baby boy was born.
According to legend, the child began to walk seven steps forward and at each step a lotus flower appeared on the ground. Then, at the seventh stride, he stopped and with a noble voice shouted: "I am chief of the world, Eldest am I in the world, Foremost am I in the world. This is the last birth. There is now no more coming to be." After that, the Queen returned to Kapilavattu to share the joy with her husband with their newborn son, Siddhartha Gotama.
It all happened on the full moon day of the Vesakha month, Wesak Day.

The story will be continued in the next posting...

5th Ehipassiko Camp

The IMU Buddhist Society will be organising an annual camp this coming June 2010. There'll be fun games, inspiring talks, leadership workshops. Not forgetting good food and a fully air-conditioned venue as well.


The details are:
Date: 24-27 June 2010
Venue : Sau Seng Lam Temple, Petaling Jaya (transportation will be provided)
Fee: RM 40 only! (includes accomodation, transportation, food, and a camp t-shirt!)

So grab a place before 25th May 2010!
If you're interested, please email or contact us for the registration form:
Chen Yeh: 012-7177411 > scy88@hotmail.com
Eng Hong: 012-2824550 > nicholas_4550@hotmail.com

The form is also available online! Just click the link below:

REGISTRATION FORM

***What you need to do is to print it out and fill in your details. Then you can submit the form together with the fees to Chen Yeh or Eng Hong.

If you have a Facebook account, it would be nice to make an RSVP at this link so that we can estimate the number of participants.

RSVP

4th Dhamma Sharing Session

"What is the cause, what is the reason, O Lord," questioned he, "that we find amongst mankind the short-lived and long-lived, the healthy and the diseased, the ugly and beautiful, those lacking influence and the powerful, the poor and the rich, the low-born and the high-born, and the ignorant and the wise?"

The Buddha’s reply was:

"All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge. It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states."

Have no idea what all these means?
It means u should come for this talk ! XD
B'cos Contentment is The Way to True Happiness~