Sadhu Kho Pabbaja

Things They Didn’t Teach You In Monk School

Here’s something you don’t get everyday (thankfully ;) )… I’m not sure what to say, other than “danger, danger…” No, really, though, it’s kind of cute – love in its purist form is always a good thing, and I’m not so sexually insecure as to be afraid of such things as this. The lipstick [...]

Sociopathology 101

It took reactivating my Facebook account again to make me realize why Facebook is not for me…

I’m anti-social.

And I’m allowed to be, I’m a Buddhist monk. That’s my job.

It finally dawned on me that the reason I never really “got” Facebook is that Facebook is the opposite of monk. Even a [...]

YouTube Partnership, Translator in Jail, Reading Weblogs

Just a quick update.

Tomorrow I’m taking one of my students to the Metro Detention Center to help translate during my volunteer chaplain service. It’s nice to be on the giving side, helping the incarcerated deal with the stress of confinement and an uncertain future. Having been falsely arrested and spending a night in [...]

Uptodates

Uploaded the whole lot of Asalha videos after amplifying the audio so you can almost here what is being said. Here’s the playlist, the first video is from Visakha Puja in Tarzana, the rest or of Asalha in Moorpark:

Still teaching in the Metro Detention Center; this week I had the opportunity to [...]

Buddhist Monk Says He’s Harmless (Letter to Moorpark Acorn)

The following letter was printed in today’s issue of the Moorpark Acorn, without the “Dear Citizens of Moorpark,”. Instead, there is seen the heading “Buddhist Monk Says He’s Harmless”.

Dear Citizens of Moorpark,

I am writing to introduce myself as a new resident of your city. I am a Buddhist monk and I teach [...]

Another Small Piece of Heaven – Asalha Puja

After the hit that was this year’s Visakha Puja celebration, I wouldn’t have thought we could manage to pull it off again. In another amazing feat of determination and perseverence, we managed as a group to pull off another makeshift Buddhist celebration to rival any I’ve seen. Maybe I just like the small nature [...]

Monk’s Life In A Day

Today I got sidetracked into taking part in “Life In A Day“, via YouTube. I’ve been filming since 12:01 AM and have gone through most of the following list already (the four questions are part of the requirements, not something I thought up):

• 12 AM – Pre-day – thoughts, reasons, intentions • 4 [...]

How to Live Without Fear and Worry VCD Torrent

By Ven Dr. K Sri Dhammananda

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Translators Wanted

Transcripts for my videos are finished, thanks to a group of kind volunteers and YouTube’s built-in subtitling system, and the next step is to start translating them.  Here are the subtitle files, if anyone is able to translate them into another language, please feel free.  You can use:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Subtitle_Workshop

to open these files and [...]