Hartford Street is pleased to announce and invite you to a morning with two Nuns who are compassionate trailblazers in the rebuilding of a lineage of ordained bhikkhunis; stemming originally from the Thai Forest Theravada school of Buddhism . The Nuns of Aloka Vihara are very well respected and frequently booked speakers/Dharma (Dhamma) teachers. They reside currently in a Vihara near Ocean Beach in San Francisco practicing with a vibrant and dedicated Sangha and are working on the intention to found a training monastery for bhikkhunis in a rural setting on the West Coast.
Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha’s teaching in her early teens, which ignited a deep interest in the Buddha’s Path of Awakening. She has practiced meditation since 1989, and lived in Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in the UK from 1992 for 18 years.
Sister Jayati was born in England in 1974. She first encountered the Buddha’s teachings at the age of twelve while attending a retreat with the F.W.B.O.(Friends of the Western Buddhist Order). She felt a deep sense of resonance with the teachings on Metta and made a commitment to cultivate this in her life.
Please join us for this wonderful event and feel free to read more about the Sisters on their website. Beacuse the Nuns as part of their precepts must eat their final main meal of the day by noon and the HSZC Sangha Council follows at 12:30PM, please bring your lunch and join us for lunch at Hartford Street with the Nuns following the talk, during simotaneous offerings of tea and cookies.
Every Saturday we offer early morning zazen (seated meditation), a brief drop-in meditation instruction at 8:30 am. And again zazen at 9:25 am. We wrap up with a dharma talk at 10:15 am followed by tea and cookies. Please join us any Saturday and we hope to see you often and for this special Saturday event!
We will have another delightful visit and talk from Ayya Anandabodhi and Sister Jayati (last visited in January 2013). Our original scheduled talk lead by Ayya Santacitta will be postponed to a future date. Ayya Santacitta’s father Josef Bayer recently passed beyond peacefully in hospital in Austria, with his loving wife by his bedside. He was 84 and had been ill for some time.
