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Kyabje zong rinpoche’s advice on dorje shugden’s practiceShoilen Sannamat
The great master of sutra and tantra, His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, was a strong practitioner of Dorje Shugden and encouraged his students to follow suit also.
By: Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñānasampanno
Translated by: Ajaan Paññāvaddho
Forest Dhamma was the first book published containing English translations of Ajaan Mahā Boowa’s discourses on the practice of Dhamma. In it are presented most of his basic teachings on meditation. The talks in this collection deal with practical aspects of meditation, and particularly with the development of wisdom in the light of fundamental principles of truth.
“The Gift of Dhamma Excels All Other Gifts”
—The Lord Buddha
Dhamma should not be sold like goods in the market place.
Permission to reproduce this publication in any way for free distribution,as a gift of Dhamma, is hereby granted and
no further permission need be obtained.
Reproduction in any way for commercial gain is strictly prohibited.
Author : HH RP Bhakti Raghava Swami
E-Mail : Bhakti.Raghava.Swami@pamho.net
Date Produced : 2015
Editor: Sriman Prafullakumar Seelam
Serial No: 1 of 54
In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, “It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world.”
Kyabje zong rinpoche’s advice on dorje shugden’s practiceShoilen Sannamat
The great master of sutra and tantra, His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, was a strong practitioner of Dorje Shugden and encouraged his students to follow suit also.
By: Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñānasampanno
Translated by: Ajaan Paññāvaddho
Forest Dhamma was the first book published containing English translations of Ajaan Mahā Boowa’s discourses on the practice of Dhamma. In it are presented most of his basic teachings on meditation. The talks in this collection deal with practical aspects of meditation, and particularly with the development of wisdom in the light of fundamental principles of truth.
“The Gift of Dhamma Excels All Other Gifts”
—The Lord Buddha
Dhamma should not be sold like goods in the market place.
Permission to reproduce this publication in any way for free distribution,as a gift of Dhamma, is hereby granted and
no further permission need be obtained.
Reproduction in any way for commercial gain is strictly prohibited.
Author : HH RP Bhakti Raghava Swami
E-Mail : Bhakti.Raghava.Swami@pamho.net
Date Produced : 2015
Editor: Sriman Prafullakumar Seelam
Serial No: 1 of 54
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GBC College Recruiting and Training Youth
1. Creating a Bhakti HabitatAshram Development for Recruiting and Training for ISKCON Devotees in the West
Part 1: Introduction and Overview
Presented for the GBC College by Kalakantha das
Temple President, ISKCON Gainesville, Florida, USA
2. Dedicated to
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada
Founder Acharya of the
International Society for
Krishna Consciousness
3. Outline
Introduction: Teachers & Lessons
Four Essentials for Creating a Sustainable Bhakti Habitat
1. The Environmentalist
2. The Environment
3. “Nitya Siddha Krishna Prema”
4. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
4. What Happened to our Ashrams?
1970s: All ashram, no congregation
1980s: Ashrams begin disappearing
1990s: Turning to our congregations
Today: Balance is hard to find
5. Are Ashrams Still Relevant?
Why not become devotees from home?
That is fine. However, ashram experience is preferable for single young
people with more time for spiritual life.
What about gurukulis and students of Indian descent?
Ashram life is an invaluable experience for everyone.
Isn’t ashram living for lazies and crazies?
No. It’s for serious devotees, but for a limited period.
6. “Ashram Development” refers to helping young
people experience single, celibate student life
followed, in most cases, by married life.
7. Key Lessons from Danavir Maharaja:
- Hungry spider
- Homeless to head pujari
- Find something superior in everyone
8. Key Lessons From Prithu Prabhu:
- Recruit or Die!
- Promote a plurality of gurus.
9. Key Lesson From Hridayananda Goswami:
- Within regulative principles, accept and embrace cultural
diversity. Make it easy for people to become devotees.
10. Key Lesson From Radhanatha Swami:
- Create an atmosphere of genuine love and care.
11. …My request to you is that you enter into the universities and colleges
wherever possible and preach there with a view to recruiting some first-class
devotees for helping me manage and push on this movement all over the
world. Overall there is shortage of first-class, experienced men to manage
things just to the highest standard, as you are doing. Therefore I am calling
upon you the big leaders to push this idea forward, namely, to attract some
educated men to join us. The idea is that they will only agree to join us if we
ourselves conduct ourselves intelligently by the preaching approach. The secret
will be to engage them as they like to be engaged, that is, supposing I have got
some education, I am business student, or I have got some skill or talent, I am
typist or musician or something like that, so I will like to utilize these things for
Krishna only if I am encouraged in a certain way, very tactfully, and I must not
be discouraged by too much forcing me at first to accept everything of shaving
the head, rising very early, going for street sankirtana, like that. No, let me
come gradually, let me study also Krishna Consciousness and see how it is
practical and sublime. Gradually I may get some taste for these other things
and agree to do them voluntarily and intelligently. We are not dogma or like
army-camp, no. We are servants of Krishna, that means because we
understand that Krishna is our Protector under all circumstances, we have no
more any anxiety, so we become very liberal and tolerant of all kinds of seeing
others' sinful activities, and we see them innocent victims of maya, and we try
to help them understand what is the real position of life. So you know this art,
how to attract and engage men, so aim yourself at the top-class of men and
give them every opportunity and facility to become convinced of our
philosophy and engage themselves to their satisfaction. That will be the best
contribution. Now spread this idea also to the other leaders.
13. “Our dear Lord Krishna, please
send new devotees.”
“Our dear Lord Krishna, if You
send new devotees, we
promise to take care of them.”
A Fresh Approach
14.
15. Bhakti Academy Students 2015
- 26 students
- 17 in college or college-educated
- 13 local recruits
- 7 gurukulis
- 6 transfers from other communities
- 2 full time, 7 part time book distributors;
43,000 books distributed in 2015 (#6 in NA)
16. In Summary:
1. Young Westerners will still join ISKCON;
2. To attract them we need to change our strategies.
Editor's Notes
Hare Krishna!
Now I’d like to tell you about the mentors who taught me the most about the Bhakti Habitat.
Those of us who have been around for a while have seen a tremendous decrease in the numbers of young Westerners taking part in Krishna consciousness. The ashrams where these young devotees lived have also diminished significantly. Here’s an overview of what happened in North America:
1 Nearly all of SP’s disciples lived in ashrams and fondly remember much or all of their ashram lives. 2. Why? Learn simplicity, tolerance, austerity, cleanliness. 3. One Godbrother used to describe residents of some non-ISKCON Indian ashrams as ‘sadhana bums.’ Perception is, ashrams are for losers, incompetents. A dynamic ashram with bright, productive residents immediately changes that perception.
Can be KC out of temple residence, but more difficult to imbibe SP’s preaching mood. Preaching activities easy in ashram. Abhiram on SP on varnashrama.
3 – Amala Bhakta
He showed it was still possible.
The ultimate lessons come from Srila Prabhupada, for he is the acarya who actually did it. Please listen to this long but pertinent excerpt from Srila Prabhupada’s letter to his disciple Sukadeva das in December of 1972:
The ultimate lessons come from Srila Prabhupada, for he is the acarya who actually did it. Please listen to this long but pertinent excerpt from Srila Prabhupada’s letter to his disciple Sukadeva das in December of 1972:
Srila Prabhupada asked his disciples to reach out to educated young people, to use intelligence to facilitate and let them come gradually. One of the downfalls of the ashrams in North America was a hierarchial sense of superiority sometimes manifested by inexperienced temple leaders. Newcomers were seen as inferiors and indefinitely assigned to repetitious, menial tasks. Of course it’s good for newcomers to wash the pots, but that should not be their only service, as it was for Sadaputa Prabhu before someone finally found out he had a college degree. To develop a successful Bhakti Habitat we must treat the newcomer as the most important person in the temple. Every facet of their experience must be our concern. We are there to serve them. This does not mean to coddle them; it means to care, to be alert, to train with sensitivity—in a word, to respect. In the CC KDK says that the principles of religion are established not by logic and debate but by the behavior of the devotees. When leaders model respect, students learn respect because they feel loved, valued and protected, never exploited.
After 30 years of failure, success! A living laboratory to make mistakes and learn from them.
This is a typical class; every year we have new students, and our ashrams are nearly always packed.
1. It is not a phenomenon of the hippie era. 2. We must be focused and personally committed. We must apply “organization and intelligence.”
