Change is dependable

It has been a while since I've posted anything, for which I apologize.

We have moved to Johannesburg and settled down. The new Dharma Centre is at 249 Bayers Naude Drive, Honeydew (some say the area is in fact Muldersdrift).

At present there isn't very much going on, we are still building and renovating. However there is much talk of Dharma Classes in the coming months. Master Hui Re is living here and I are living here, although Master also often flies to Malawi to work at the Amitofo Care Centre.



The place is beautiful and getting more so every day as so many people chip in and help us improve things.

Keep in touch everyone.

Amitofo

Benle
Palms Joined

Book now for the Land of Bliss

In my last life I made an appointment to be born in this Saha world.
So here I am, fulfilling my vows in this life.
Now I’m making an appointment to be born in the Pureland,
In the Land of Lotuses,
when this life ends.

I am not weary of this tainted Saha world,
but of the endlessly revolving cycle of life and death.
I joyously seek not the pure and blissful land,
but the ultimate love and wisdom Mito Rulai will give to me

My love is constant in this Saha world.
My care for all beings – all my mothers – is constantly in my heart
To attain the pure diamond body,
I will help all sentient beings
for numberless kalpas.
Practicing thus I make my appointment
for the Pure Land of ultimate bliss.

Written by Master Hui Re 慧日法師
Translated by Alice Chan
Edited by Ben Le and Maxine Fine

Chanting up the Sun

Six o clock this morning me and the Master and Maurice Barker of the Sat Chat Anand Buddhist Centre went down to the beach to chant the sun up, calling on the Buddha's Name as dolphins came to listen to dance in the swell.
Today we leave this Heaven Realm and return to our home at Chan Lin, Nan Hua Temple.

It was good to bask in the sun, it reminds me that i'm already basking in Amitabha's Light, even if i don't feel.It was good to bask in the sun, it reminds me that i'm already basking in Amitabha's Light, even if i don't feel it.

Thank you to all the bodhisattva's who called master out here to Paradise in Plettenberg Bay. May we all chant the Name in Trust.

Amitofo

Another Sunrise

Morning service at the Great Treasured Hero Shrine, NanHua Temple South Africa.

Sunrise from the Main Shrine at Nanhua Temple

The morning of full moon or new moon, all the students of the African Buddhist Seminary walk to the Main Shrine room to do a special chanting service.