Meditation Courses

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Are you suffering from depression?
Are you feeling frustrated?
Would you like to flee the world full of worries and woes?
Would you like to obtain the serenity?
We would like to cordially invite you to come and join us.
We will warmly welcome you and take you to the places quite different from yours.
You just need to spend a few days and later you will notice that you are not the person before.
Your mind and personality will be completely changed.
How can they be changed?

“Practising is believing”

We have three optional meditation centres for you to concentrate your mind and practise meditation.

1. Panditarama Forest Meditation Centre (10-day Course)

It is a meditation centre as well as a monastery resided by monks. It was established in October, 1990. It is located in a silent place not far from the city centre. The Branch is located on a wide green land about 45 minutes’ drive from Yangon City. The method of meditation is to examine the sensations arising within the body, for example, concentrating on rising and falling of the abdomen while sitting and observing the foot steps while walking.
Accommodation and food are provided free of charge. Meditatiors are required 14 hours of formal sitting and walking meditation in silence and leaving 4-6 hours of sleep in a day.
Strict adherence to the teaching method as instructed is required. No allowance is given to mix with other meditating methods.
This centre will only accept people with stable mind and decent personality in order to avoid the obstruction of fellow meditatiors mentally.
Daily routine starts at 4:00 am until 11:00 pm with time allowed for meals and baths.

2. Chanmyay Yeik Tha Meditation Centre(10-day Course)

The Centre is located halfway between downtown area and Yangon Airport. The Branch is constructed on 14 acres of green land, located about 45 minutes’ drive from Yangon City. It has all modernized facilities to accommodate the meditatiors for peaceful meditation.
Food and accommodation are free of charge and vegetarian food is available on request.
Meditators are required to practice intensively under the guidance of experienced teachers with a routine day starting at 3:00am until 9:30 pm everyday. All daily activities are to be observed in silence and conducted with mindfulness.

There is a daily timetable applicable to all but teachers give specific instructions if necessary, depending upon individuals experience and progress. Meditation instructions and interviews are given in English on alternate days.

3. Pa-Auk Tawya International Buddhasasana Meditation Centre (No duration)

It is located at Mawlamayine in Mon State. It is near the foot of the blue mountain ranges. It is surrounded by the green forest and you can feel entire serenity in there. You can also feel the pleasant atmosphere of its environment.
Accomodation and meals (breakfast and lunch) are free of charge. All the meals are vegetarian foods.
There is no limitation of the period on the meditation course.
The daily routine starts at 3:30 a.m and ends at 9:30 p.m

Meditation hours are one and a half per period and 6 periods a day.
The meditation method is concentration on breathing (Anapana) to get mindfulness. When your concentratin of mind is stronger, you have to change the method and concentrate on four fundamentals of phenomena in your body. The more you practice, the more peacefulness you will find.

Rules for Foreign Meditators

Meditators must strictly observe the fourfold purification during their stay. This purification consist of

(1)	The 227 rules for the monks, the 10 precepts and 75 training rules for novices, and the 5.8 or 10 percepts for lay persons and nuns.
(2)	Restraint of the six sense faculties- restraint of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.
(3)	Purification of livelihood that accords with the precepts.

Meditation

Everyone must attend the group sittings at their respective meditation hall. Group sittings are held at the following times: 4:00-5:30 am, 12:30-2:00 pm, 3:00-4:30 pm and 6:00-7:30 pm.
Interviews with Pa Auk meditation teachers are an important aid to one’s practice.
Meditators must practice according to the instructions of their meditation teacher.

Smoking, Drinking and Drugs

Smoking, drinking, chewing tobacco or betel nut and the use of recreational drugs are strictly forbidden.
There are no exceptions to this rule. If you break this rule, you will be asked to leave.

Attire

Meditators should dress modestly at all times:

Men –	no bare shoulders, no bare calves, no bare knees, no shorts, no sleeveless shirts, vests or undershirts, no ripped or otherwise improper attire.
Women –	no bare shoulders, midriff, claves or kness, no short skirts, no shorts, no sleeveless shirts or blouses, no thin, transparent, tight, revealing, brightly coloured or otherwise improper attire.

Now, can you make a choice?

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