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Meditation Classes
If you have no previous experience of the Mahāsi meditation method, please read the short booklets recommended on the Retreats Page.
Calendar 2025
Download this PDF (1.57 Mbytes) to make your own calendar for 2024. It shows the observance days (uposatha), sunrise times, and time of first light at the beginning of each month. Moon phases and sunrise/dawn data are from timeanddate.com.
- The Buddhist year is currently 2569. The Buddhist Year of 2570 begins on the Full-moon day of Vesākha in May 2026.
- First light, the earliest time to offer almsfood, is shown for the first day of each month
- British Summertime changes to Greenwich Mean Time at 2:00am on Sun 26th October, 2025.
- 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 reduce the size of the download.
Recent Changes
(Most Recent First)
- Updated archives on the Home Page (24/6/2025)
- Updated A Discourse on the Mālukyaputta Sutta (24/6/2025)
- Updated all http:// links to https:// (17/4/2025)
- Updated the Āṭānāṭiya Sutta (14/2/2025)
- Updated On the Nature of Nibbāna (11/2/2025)
- Updated calendar for 2025 (2/12/2024)
- Updated map on Retreats Page (29/9/2024)
- Updated Selected Discourses from the Gradual Sayings (15/9/2024)
- Updated the Ekādasakanipāta, Dasakanipāta, Navakanipāta, Aṭṭhakanipāta, Sattakanipāta, Chakkanipāta, Pañcakanipāta, Catukkanipāta, Tikanipāta, Dukanipāta, and the Ekakanipāta adding navigation buttons to the next discourse in the chapter. (4/9/2024)
- Deleted redundant pages from the Gradual Sayings (31/8/2024)
- Added SSL certificate to aimwell.org (3/5/2024)
- Updated The Shortest Route to Nibbāna (1/4/2024)
- Updated the Forums page with a link to the Norbu AI Buddhist Chatbot (1/3/2024)
- Added the Akkosa Sutta (11/2/2024)
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