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What’s New?

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One Day Meditation Retreats

Restrictions Lifted

Now that the restrictions have been lifted, retreats and classes have resumed. As usual, please let me know when you wish to come as I have very limited space — two meditators for retreats and three for meditation classes.

If you have no previous experience of the Mahāsi meditation method, please read the short booklets recommended on the Retreats Page.

Calendar 2020

Download this PDF (1.53 Mbytes) to make your own calendar. It shows the observance days (uposatha), one-day retreats, and sunrise times at the beginning of each month. Moon phases and sunrise data is from timeanddate.com.

• The Buddhist year is currently 2564. The Buddhist Year of 2,565 begins on the Full-moon day of Vesākha in May 2021.
• First light, the earliest time to offer almsfood, is approximately one hour before sunrise.
• British Summertime (BST) changes to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) at 1:00am on Sun, 25th October, 2020.
• The entire website can be downloaded from the home page to read when you have no Internet connection. PDF files and MP3 audio files are not included to save space.

Recent Changes

(Most Recent First)

• Updated archive on the Home Page (1/10/2020)
• Fixed some typos in The Debate of King Milinda (24/9/2020)
• Fixed some typos in Fundamentals of Insight Meditation (15/9/2020)
• Fixed some typos in Practical Vipassanā Meditation Exercises (15/9/2020)
• Updated The War on Error (11/9/2020)
• Updated A Manual of the Perfections (26/8/2020)
• Added link to an additional version of the Ratana Sutta (15/9/2020)
• Updated A Manual of Insight (13/8/2020)
• Updated the PDF for the Manuals of Buddhism (30/6/2020)
• Updated the PDF for A Manual of the Excellent Man (17/6/2020)
• Updated the PDF for Selected Discourses from the Saṃyuttanikāya (17/6/2020)
• Updated the PDF for Selected Discourses from the Aṅguttaranikāya (16/6/2020)
• Updated A Manual of Nutriment and its PDF (17/6/2020)
• Added selected chapters from the Dukanipāta (1/6/2020)
• Added the Cetanākaraṇīya Sutta (31/5/2020)
• Added the Kammanidāna Sutta (31/5/2020)
• Added the Migasālā Sutta (31/5/2020)
• Added the Girimānanda Sutta (28/5/2020)
• Updated Observing the Uposatha (27/5/2020)
• Updated the Uposatha Sutta (27/5/2020)
• Added the Sakka Sutta (23/5/2020)
• Added the Abhabba Suttaṃ (21/5/2020)
• Added the Kula Sutta (21/5/2020)
• Added the Bala Sutta (2) (20/5/2020)
• Added the Nālanda Sutta (18/5/2020)
• Added the Ānanda Sutta (16/5/2020)
• Added the Kula Sutta (15/5/2020)
• Added the Khettūpama Sutta (13/5/2020)
• Added the Asibandhakaputta Sutta (12/5/2020)
• Added the Isidatta Sutta (11/5/2020)
• Added the Sīvaka Sutta (9/5/2020)
• Added the Chappānakopama Sutta (8/5/2020)

Please let me know if you find any errors. I can only fix what I know about.