by Ayya Niyyanika | Apr 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
In March, desert winds tugged my robes as I walked through the Spring blooms and greeted bunnies and birds looking for their nesting places, some right outside the kuti door. This sign of searching for their new homes signaled the end of Winter Retreat and the start...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Feb 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sitting in the desert with the gentle Winter sun I appreciate Ajahn Brahm’s words that meditation is just being present with one in breath and one out breath and then doing it again for the next breath and the next. The days of Winter Retreat at Dhamma Dena are...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today I enter Winter Retreat at Dhamma Dena in Southern California. (See the end of this blog for more about Dhamma Dena and how to support.) I feel so ready for this opportunity for deepening practice – warm hearted, rightly directed, and internally resourced....
by Ayya Niyyanika | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Tongdosa: The Buddha Treasure Temple The Buddha Treasure (Tongdosa) Temple was the first of the Three Jewel Temples we visited. We visited on a moon day so the grounds were filled with devoted practitioners when we arrived, which was during the day’s big service...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Dec 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
I celebrate six years since Bhikkhunī ordination, Upasampadā, today. This anniversary finds me in South Korea with its rich heritage of Buddhist teaching and practice. at Maha Vihara with Ayya Sucitta and two of the four resident bhikkhus I arrived in South Korea on...
