Updates for 2004. Finally ...

It's been almost a year since we've made any serious attempt to update our website. So here we go ...

Latest 2004 Activities

Dhamma Talk
Speaker: Professor Padmasiri de Silva, Monash University
Topic: Thinking and Feeling (A Buddhist Approach to Harmonising Passion and Reason)
Date: Friday, 23rd April 2004
Time: 6pm-8pm
Venue: Foundation Life Members Room (FLMR), Graduate Centre (Gate 7 or 8 from Grattan St), The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus.
Notes: Padmasiri de Silva was formerly Professor & Head/Philosophy & Psychology Dept., University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He held visiting positions at the University of Pittsburgh and ISLE program in U.S.A, National University of Singapore and the University of Waikato. He has published a number of books, the most widely known is An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology (published by Macmillan, London), which has gone into several editions and has been in circulation for over twenty years. His most recent work is Buddhism, Ethics and Society, Monash Asia Institute, 2002. His current research is on the Philosophy and Therapy of Emotions.

Lunchtime Meditation
Ravindra Koggalage, currently our vice president, is a seasoned Buddhist meditation practitioner as well as a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne. He conducts regular meditation sessions generally on Wednesdays at lunchtime.
Time: 1-2pm Venue: Multi Function Room, Graduate Centre. Be advised that this is subject to change and that an email will be sent to our mailing list members to confirm the correct date, time and venue details.

Subscribing to MUBSS email list

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Some Words of Wisdom

When the United Nations was formed after the horrors of the Second World War, the heads of the Nations who gathered to sign the charter agreed that it should begin with the following preamble: 'Since it is in the minds of men that wars begin, it is in the minds of men the ramparts of peace should be erected.' This very same sentiment is echoed in the first verse of the Dhammapada which states: 'All [mental] states have mind as their forerunner, mind is their chief, and they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts, with a defiled mind, suffering follows one even as the wheel follows the hoof of the draught-ox.'

- excerpt from What Buddhists Believe, Chapter 15 War and Peace, by Venerable Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda (website: http://www.ksridhammananda.com/)