by Ayya Niyyanika | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cessation of Suffering Online programs were offered July 29-31, 2025 Image by ANDRI TEGAR MAHARDIKA from Pixabay Sutta Study – PV*(Tuesday July 29th, 8am Pacific Time) SN 22.22 – The Burden The aggregates are the burden, a person carries that burden, craving...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Jul 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Community Online programs offered July 22-24, 2025 Image by Freepik Sutta Study – PV* (Tuesday July 22nd, 8am Pacific Time) Excerpts from MN 31 – Cūḷagosiṅgasutta (Example of Harmony) AN 6.12 – Warm Hearted Excerpts from AN 2.42-51 – The Chapter on...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Opinions and Views Online programs offered July 15-17, 2025 Image by GraphicMama-team from Pixabay Sutta Study – PV* (Tuesday July 15th, 8am Pacific Time) With Sarabha Honeyball (MN 18). part 2 Embodiment Exploration – July 2025 (Thursday, July 17th, 9 am...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Quarrels and Disputes Online programs offered July 8-10, 2025 Image by ANDRI TEGAR MAHARDIKA from Pixabay Link to all Zoom programs from Passaddhi Vihara’s Events Page Sutta Study – PV*(Tuesday July 8th, 8am Pacific Time) Honeyball (MN 18) Flowers (SN...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Jun 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Caring for this Life Online programs offered July 1-3, 2025 Image by ANDRI TEGAR MAHARDIKA from Pixabay * PV denotes that this is a regular Passaddhi Vihara program that continues all year on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Link to all Zoom programs from Passaddhi...
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...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Nov 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before starting the second half of the tour, here is a picture for the Patimokkha recitation. We had four bhikkhunis at Wat Pah Subthawee Dhammaram including Ayya Camala from Malaysia. Ayya Cittananda took the picture so it is just Ayya Santussika, Ayya Camala and I...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Nov 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Visiting Thailand with Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda and some of the Karuna Buddhist Vihara community has breathed even more faith and confidence into my practice in a way only possible in a Buddhist country and in the presence of deeply practiced, Dhamma sharing,...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Nov 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
During this Vassa. I explored what is the right rhythm of meditation and exercise, study and project work, and being alone and with others. This is the first time I’ll had a stretch of months where I lived without other monastics. It was very interesting to...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Oct 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sunday, October 22nd Meditation Daylong The sharing of a day of meditation on the beautiful land of the Vassa dwelling was well attended and nourished our hearts in September. Sunday, October 22nd, let’s do it again! The schedule is flexible and may be something...
by Ayya Niyyanika | Aug 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Warm greetings Dhamma practitioners, Sunday, September 24th is an opportunity to practice meditation and have forest time together. Ayya Niyyānika is in a Vassa Dwelling on Bainbridge Island with a lovely meditation garden and next to the Grand Forest. They have found...
