Namo Buddhaya,
Bersama ini kami dari Yayasan Hadaya Vatthu memberitahukan
akan diadakannya retreat meditasi Samatha dan Vipassana
selama 3 bulan penuh yang akan dibimbing oleh Y.M. Pa Auk
Sayadaw, guru meditasi yang sangat terkenal dari Myanmar.
Selain itu ada juga retreat meditasi 9 hari yang akan
dibimbing oleh Sayalay Dipankara, asisten dari Pa Auk
Sayadaw dengan perincian sebagai berikut:
Retreat Samatha dan Vipassana Pa Auk Sayadaw dan
asistennya Sayadaw U Agganna
Tanggal: 10 Desember 2008 - 10 Maret 2009 (3 bulan penuh)
Tempat : Kayagata-sati Meditation Centre, Cibodas
Retreat Samatha dan Vipassana Sayalay Dipankara, asisten
dari Pa Auk Sayadaw
Tanggal: 13 - 21 Desember 2008
Tempat : Jhana Manggala Meditation Centre, Gunung Geulis,
Bogor
Berbahagialah bagi yang dapat mengikuti retreat 3 bulan yg
akan dibimbing oleh Y.M. Pa Auk Sayadaw ini karena cukup
jarang ada kesempatan untuk dibimbing langsung oleh beliau
selama 3 bulan penuh. Semoga kualitas batin umat Buddhis
di Indonesia dapat terus berkembang.
Retreat ini akan diikuti oleh 70 peserta umat dan lebih
dari 20 Bhikkhu/ Bhiksuni/ Sayalay dari dalam dan luar
negeri.
Bagi yang ingin info lebih lanjut, berdana tenaga (sebagai
volunteer), makanan maupun uang, dapat menghubungi:
* Karman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; telpon ke 0812 832
5692
* charles : 0812 105 0996, 9276 3112
Terlampir poster Retreat Pa Auk Sayadaw
Riwayat singkat Y.M. Pa Auk Sayadaw :
Bhikkhu Bhaddanta Acinna, yang lebih dikenal sebagai Pa
Auk Sayadaw lahir tahun 1934 dan sejak tahun 1981 menjadi
kepala vihara dan guru utama dari Pa Auk Forest Monastery.
Beliau diupasampada menjadi Samanera pada saat berusia 10
tahun, kemudian saat belajar Vinaya, Sutta dan Abhidhamma,
Beliau juga telah menyelesaikan Bahasa Pali tingkat
terakhir.
Tahun 1954, Beliau diupasampada menjadi bhikkhu dan terus
mempelajari Tipitaka hingga dua tahun kemudian, sehingga
tahun 1956 mendapat gelar Dhammacariya.
Tahun 1964, Setelah memperdalam Dhamma dari beberapa orang
Sayadaw terkemuka di Myanmar, di masa vasa kesepuluh,
Beliau memperdalam meditasinya secara intensif dan
menjalani kehidupan kebhikkhuan di hutan.
Setelah 16 tahun menjalani praktek utamanya sebagai
"bhikkhu hutan", tahun 1981 Beliau diminta untuk memimpin
Pa Auk Tawya Forest Monastery, menggantikan Sayadaw
Aggapanna yang meninggal. Dan sejak itu Beliau dikenal
sebagai Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw, selama memimpin Monastery,
beliau selalu menyediakan sebagian besar waktunya untuk
bermeditasi di kuti bambu sederhana.
Sejak 1983 beliau mulai membimbing meditasi dan sejak
tahun 1990 banyak orang asing yang mulai datang untuk
dibimbing oleh beliau. Dengan semakin terkenalnya reputasi
beliau, dari sebuah kuti bambu berkembang menjadi Pa Auk
Forest Monastery yang sekarang ini dimana sekitar lebih
dari 1000 orang asing dan ribuan orang Myanmar yang
berlatih setiap tahunnya di Monastery.
Tahun 1997, Pa Auk Sayadaw menerbitkan buku karya
terbesarnya, berisi 5 volume yang berjudul "The Practice
that Leads to Nibbana". Buku ini menjelaskan seluruh
pengajaran secara detil dan didukung dengan
kutipan-kutipan dari TIPITAKA sekarang ini tersedia hanya
dalam bahasa Burma dan Sinhalese. Pada 4 Januari 1999,
atas pencapaian/hasil Sayadaw yg sudah diketahui secara
umum, pemerintah menganugerahinya Agga Maha
Kammatthanacariya, yang berarti "Guru Meditasi Yang Sangat
Terhormat".
Metode Meditasi oleh Pa-Auk Sayadaw :
Seperti kita ketahui sila, samadhi dan panna merupakan 3
tahap dari praktek ajaran Buddha. Melalui praktek dengan
melatih ketiga hal tersebut, seorang umat biasa dapat
mencapai kesucian dan Nibbana.
Visuddhi Magga yang dirangkum oleh Bhikkhu Buddhaghosa
merupakan penjelasan akan 3 tahap latihan tersebut. Itu
berdasarkan Tipitaka dan kitab penjelasannya, menjelaskan
tujuh tahap pemurnian batin dan enam belas pencapaian
pengetahuan-batin. Tetapi bagaimana caranya
mencapai?Mereka mempunyai suatu pertanyaan yang sulit
untuk semua umat Buddha diatas banyak generasi.
Untuk ini, kita beruntung masih memiliki YM. Pa-Auk Tawya
Sayadaw dari Pa-Auk Forest Monastery. Pengajarannya adalah
sama dan lebih detail seperti apa yang digambarkan di
dalam Visuddhi Magga. Yang didasarkan pada sumber yang
sungguh sama, komentar-komentar teks-teks Pali dan
Visuddhi Magga diri sendiri, Sayadaw mengajar yogi-yogi,
secara bertahap, bagaimana caranya mencapai
langkah-langkah pemurnian batin dan pencapaian pengetahuan
batin.
Arah pengajaran Pa-Auk Forest Monastery adalah sesuai
dengan otentik tipitaka, untuk merealisasikan Nibbana
dalam kehidupan ini. Untuk merealisasikan Nibbana,
yogi-yogi harus memahami semua unsur mental, material,
yang dikenal sebagai lima khanda/ kumpulan, sebagai
ketidak-kekalan, ketidak-puasan, dan tidak adanya aku.
Perihal dengan objek meditasi Vipassana-nya, bukan hanya
lima khanda yang internal dan eksternal, tetapi juga lima
khanda dari yang lampau, saat ini dan yang mendatang,
kasar dan halus, kuat dan lemah, jauh dan dekat. Hanya
setelah mengerti semuanya dengan penembusan sebagai
ketidak-kekalan, ketidak-puasan, dan tidak adanya aku,
yogi-yogi dapat merealisasikan jalan dan buah dari Jalan
Mulia, dan secara berangsur-angsur mengurangi berbagai
kekotoran batin.
Setelah merealisasikan Nibbana untuk pertama kali, yogi
dapat melihat jelas bahwa mereka sudah mencapai jalan dan
buahnya yang pertama; kekotoran batin apa yang sudah
ditinggalkan, dan kekotoran batin yang mereka masih perlu
untuk ditinggalkan. Untuk kemudian mereka melanjutkan
untuk berlatih Vipassana untuk merealisasikan jalan dan
buahnya lebih tinggi sampai ke tingkat Arahat, dimana
tidak ada lagi sebab kelahiran-kembali, dan merealisasikan
Nibbana sepenuhnya setelah kematian.
Biography of Pa Auk Sayadaw :
The Venerable Acinna, commonly referred to as the
"Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw" (and, in less formal
circumstances, as "Pa-Auk Sayadaw"), is the current abbot
and principal teacher at Pa-Auk Forest Monastery.
"Sayadaw" is a Burmese honorific title meaning "respected
teacher."
The Sayadaw was born in 1934, in Leigh-Chaung Village,
Hinthada Township, in the delta region about one hundred
miles northwest of the capital, Yangon. In 1944, at age
ten, he ordained as a novice monk (*samanera) at a
monastery in his village. During the next decade, he
pursued the life of a typical scholar-novice, studying the
Pali Texts (including Vinaya, Suttas and Abhidhamma) under
various teachers. He passed the three Pali language
examinations while still a novice.
In 1954, at age twenty, the Sayadaw received the higher
ordination as a bhikkhu. He continued his studies of the
Pali Texts under the guidance of learned elder monks. In
1956 he passed the prestigious Dhammacariya examination.
This is equivalent to a BA in Buddhist Pali Studies and
confers the title of "Dhamma Teacher."
During the next eight years, the Sayadaw continued his
investigation into the Dhamma, travelling throughout
Myanmar to learn from various well-known teachers. In
1964, during his tenth "rains retreat" (vassa), he turned
his attention to intensifying his meditation practice and
began to practise "forest dwelling." Although he continued
with his study of the Pali Texts, he now sought out and
gained instruction from the revered meditation teachers of
those times.
For the next sixteen years, he made forest dwelling his
primary practice. He spent these years in the southern
part of Myanmar, in Mon State: three years in Mudon
Township (just south of Mawlamyine) and thirteen years in
Ye Township (approximately one hundred miles down the
coast). During this period, he lived a very simple life,
devoting his time to meditation and study of the Pali
Texts.
In 1981 the Sayadaw received a message from the abbot of
Pa-Auk Forest Monastery, the Venerable Aggapañña. The
abbot was dying and asked the Venerable Acinna to look
after his monastery. Five days later, the Venerable
Aggapañña passed away. As the new abbot of the monastery,
the Venerable Acinna became known as the "Pa-Auk Tawya
Sayadaw." Although he oversaw the running of the
monastery, the Sayadaw would spend most of his time in
seclusion, meditating in a bamboo hut in the upper
forested area, which covered a deserted range of hills
running along the base of the Taung Nyo Mountain Range.
This area later came to be known as the Upper Monastery.
Since 1983, both monastics and laity have been coming to
study meditation with the Sayadaw. Foreign meditators
began to arrive at the monastery in the early 1990's. As
the Sayadaw's reputation steadily grew, the Upper
Monastery gradually expanded from a simple bamboo hut and
a handful of disciples to more than two hundred and fifty
kutis (meditators' huts) in the forest; a large two-storey
meditation hall for the men; a library (with office,
computer room and men's dormitory on the lower levels); a
clinic; a hospital; an almsgiving hall; a two-storey
refectory; and a reception hall and dwelling for the
Sayadaw. In the Lower Monastery, facilities include more
than 180 kutis, a new kitchen and, for the women, a large
three-storey meditation hall (with sleeping quarters on
the ground floor) and a five-storey dormitory (still under
construction).
In March 2007, there are more than one hundred and thirty
foreign monks, nuns and lay practitioners residing at
Pa-Auk Forest Monastery. During our three-month rains
retreat, the total monastic population averages between
six and seven hundred. Together with laypeople, the
monastery population sometimes tops fifteen hundred during
festival times.
In 1997 the Sayadaw published his Magnum Opus, an enormous
five-volume tome titled The Practice that Leads to
Nibbana, explaining the entire course of teaching in
detail and supported by copious quotations from the Pali
Texts it is currently available only in Burmese and
Sinhalese. On January 4, 1999, in public recognition of
the Sayadaw's achievements, the government bestowed upon
him the title Agga Maha Kammatthanacariya, which means
"Highly Respected Meditation Teacher."
The Sayadaw speaks fluent English and has lectured and led
retreats outside of Myanmar since 1997. In December of
2006, he travelled to Sri Lanka to undertake a long-term
personal retreat, staying in seclusion and suspending his
teaching schedule throughout 2007. As of this printing,
his teaching schedule for 2008 includes a four-month
retreat in the United States, July October, to be held
at the Forest Refuge in Barre, Massachusetts.
Goal of Meditation
by Pa-Auk Sayadaw
As most of us know, the three trainings of morality,
concentration, and wisdom, are the three stages of
Buddhist practice. Through the practice of the three
trainings, an ordinary person can attain supreme Nibb
āna, and become a noble one.
The Visuddhi Magga compiled by the Venerable Buddhaghosa
is an exposition of the three trainings. It is based on
the Pāëi texts and commentaries, and explains the
seven stages of purification, and sixteen
insight-knowledges. But how to attain them has been a
difficult question for all Buddhists over many
generations. For this, we are fortunate to have the
Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw of Pa-Auk Forest Monastery.
His teaching is the same as, Indeed it is in much more
detail than, what is described in the Visuddhi Magga.
Based on the very same sources, the Pāëi texts
commentaries and the Visuddhi Magga itself, the Sayadaw
teaches yogis, step by step, how to attain those stages of
purification, and insight-knowledges.
The goal of the teaching at Pa-Auk Forest Monastery is, in
accordance with the ancient texts, to realize Nibbāna
in this very life. To achieve that end, yogis must
comprehend all mentality-materiality, also known as the
five aggregates, as impermanence, suffering, and non-self.
As for the objects of Vipassanā meditation, they are
not only the internal and external five aggregates, but
also the five aggregates of past, future and present,
gross and subtle, superior and inferior, far and near.
Only after comprehending all of them penetratively as
impermanence, suffering, and non-self, can yogis attain
the noble paths and fruitions, and thereby gradually
eradicate or reduce various defilements. After having seen
Nibbana for the first time, yogis can see clearly that
they have attained the first path and fruition; whatd
efilements they have abandoned; and what defilements they
still need to abandon. Then they continue to practise
Vipassanā to attain the higher paths and fruitions up
to Arahantship, whereby they are no longer subject to
rebirth, and will attain final Nibbāna after death.
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