Arya: ..i talk last week wth him in face book. when r u comming india...???? & if u plane to come india then plz this is my request to u that plz come to my home town also sir....
Me: Three things would encourage me to come to your home town:
Thank you for thinking of me. My heart-strings are pulled by remembering you and your brothers in the Dharma and all you will achieve in India. There is much hope for the future of India and some weeks 500 people watch a YouTube video I posted about that future:
Whilst my heart strings are pulled, my purse-strings open onto a big black hole of debt. For a little while recently I was a member of an Indian Facebook group called something like this: "I will never commit suicide, no matter how bad things get".
Surprisingly this week I can now more easily imagine travelling to Nagaloka and to Bihar (near Bodha Gaya) again, though I don't yet know where the money will come from as I expect it to take up to 10 years for me to get out of debt.
Here, in Hastings, I have set up "Ethical Outings in Hastings"(the tours that lead up to the meditation classes ie Ethics, Meditation - then Wisdom?- in Buddhism this is called the threefold path) on alternate Thursday's from March onwards. (Leafleting of the town begins in January or February).
The date for the play of the same name, raising money for www.karuna.org and with Dr Ambedkar featuring prominently as my spiritual guide and social activist guide, is, as yet unscheduled. I'll be in more communication with my spiritual teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita, about this (hopefully visiting him
accompanied by others locally who are friends within the Triratna Buddhist Community) and look forward to letting you know more in due course.
As well as a great Christmas (if it means anything positive culturally to you), may you have, as we say in Hastings, a Happy New Pier!
With love from
Paul
1) A playwright -"Ethical Outings in Hastings"- inspired by http://doctorambedkar.blogspot.com
& http://nagaloka-dream-cycle.blogspot.com
2) In the process, co-directing the community interest company that is setting up St Leonards Sharing Timebank: http://stleonardssharing.info
3) Please explore timebanking & register your interest in doing more of the things you like to do in your life.
Or tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have some minutes (2,000 a month) to call back.
On 20 Dec 2011, at 17:27, arya sakya wrote:
hii sir how are you, and when yo are comming india....and this is my request that sir plz this time if possible then come to my home town....
Namo Buddhaya Jai Bhim After so many days how are you ? How is The [fundraising] going on ? I hope all are going very well. I am very happy to remembering you i hope your friends Dh.Bodhikeu, Dh. Sanghanath are also very well.
Sir, i am going to reach my goal. This is very are process. Now, I prepare for the entrance exam of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) I want to do my further study and you know that i very interested to do my further study but sir there is so many difficulties for my studies due to financial problems.
When i was child at the age of five years that time my father suffer from Fever( Pralies) till now it was not recover. so, my father cannot support in my studies.I am the ealdest in the family. so, due to the not having support in financially may be i have to stop my further studies. And there is no one to help me to support in my further studies. So, sir If you have shampathy for me, will you willing to support to continue my further studies. Sir, you know about my dream and what i want to become for my society. I am always thinking about the welfare of the other . Sir, it a very peititic situatiion for me that i am leaving Nagaloka on next month to preapre for the entrance exam of JNU.So ,iam going to Delhi as there are some friends who are willing to be with them when i have asked about it.
Lastly, please give warm love and respect to all Friends in your Community.
WITH FULL METTA BISHNU(Maitriratna)
"PLAN:
Now I am learning and practising the Buddhism
After this year I start my study. I want to do Phd in English
After this year I start slowly-slowly my dream
After I complete my studies I work fully what is my dream
1st start to my village I make a small meditation hall then I slowly-slowly increase my process. 2nd to other village people. After that I will convince to other religious people also to learn meditation.
DO:
I will do that in anyhow, what is my dream. I shall try till I sucesses.
REVIEW:
I wll check in my dreams is going on or not. If not, then I try again and again, until I sucess."
My first memory is of being on my Daddy's shoulders, walking to the village. I was aged 3 or 4. Daddy loved me very much then; he still does. He never hit me; well, only once. That time he hit me on the ear, not too hard. Other times he used some harsh words and angrily told me what I should do. My mother's verbal abuse was far worse; whenever I did anything wrong. Both mum and dad loved me very much and the reason they didn't hit or abuse me more was because they didn't want me to become a bad boy.
When I was 6 years old my father fell ill and became paralysed. That paralysis has never been cured, despite many hospital trips. The doctor has said he can't do anything about it. When my father was paralysed, I wasn't going to school. People in my village asked, “Why aren't you going to school?”. I replied: “Now Daddy cannot work, he cannot earn the money for me to go to school.”
A little later I said to my dad “i want to go to school.” He replied, “As you wish; I will try to help you anyhow.” I was then admitted to the middle school near our village. I did well at school and have never failed in school. This gives me confidence that I will succeed in all things; though things will be difficult at times.
As a child I killed many insects and some small animals; all of which were innocent. This carried on for me beyond my 16th birthday. As I've understood more about what I'm doing when I kill an animal, I've gradually given up killing. I regret what I've done and no longer kill; I am much happier as a vegetarian now.
As a child, my father said that getting to class 10 was enough education for me. Because he is illiterate he cannot understand the value of study. And of course he cannot earn more money. He got very concerned that my leaving home to carry on studying would be costly. I'd said to him by the time that I'd got to 8th class that I wanted to continue studying. His response was to say: “O.K. You had better complete your dream and you will have to take some responsibility to do that. I am ill & I will still do all I can to try and help you with your studies.”
By 2006 my studies involved me travelling 12 kilometres from home. My class teacher liked me very much and searched for a home where I could live nearer to the school. He found a family where I could stay; the husband and wife only having one daughter and one son. I was pleased to serve the master of this house. I lived in his house for 4 years as my home. He always helped me with my studies & my economic problems. He always treated me like another son and thanks to him I completed all of my school -all the way through to 12th grade. I tried to help this 2nd father to me with work that needed doing whenever I saw work being done but he said: “You shouldn't work. You came here to study, not to work.” I found it hard to see them working without helping.
"My name is Priyanka and I live in Chattisgarh at Raipur. I have come to Nagpur to study Buddhism and Babasaheb Ambedkar. What Babasaheb has taught us about Buddhism and the work he has done, I want to carry on this work for it. I want to study Buddhism for two years (at Nagloka). Even after ten years I will still be studying Buddhism and I will be spreading Buddhism [as far as I can] across India. It is my wish to devote myself and follow the way given by Babasaheb Ambedkar."
(translation by Satyamaitreya, with a little English polishing by Paul)
