Ajahn Brahm addressing the crowd in Toronto, 2005
Book signing
With the resident monks at the Mississauga Buddhist Centre
Having the morning meal
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Ajahn Brahm In Canada, October 2014
Toronto, Montreal and Halifax
What people had to say..
I loved the retreat. I had a mind altering experience that Sat...
Indy a very big THANK YOU to you and Piyal for giving us the opportunity to learn meditation from such great monk. Everything you both put together was just perfect. Blessings to you both and the kids. Love and regards -j
Hi Piyal
I must congratulate you for last weekend meditation course. You have done a great job. I wouldn' t hesitate to join again next time when Ajahn Brahms returns..
I must congratulate you for last weekend meditation course. You have done a great job. I wouldn' t hesitate to join again next time when Ajahn Brahms returns..
thanks so much there was some 'magic' that
happened to me that Saturday. His words carried
the message...
Dear Piyal ,Indi and the Organizing committee
May you all reap great benefit from this beautiful Bhuddha Dhamma
Always
Metta
Hi Piyal and Indi
Congratulations on the successful organization of the meditation with Ajahn Brahm. I personally had a good experience.
If you are able to arrange monthly meditation sessions I would attend, if I am in Burlington. I now attend meditation sessions on 3 Sundays a month at the temple
Thanks again
Hello Dr Piyal Walpola and Indi Thank you so much for organizing such a big event and giving me a great opportunity to participate. The event was very well planned, you have worked so hard. I really learned alot about meditation and hoping to join the future events too. As I am from Pickering area I would like to know whether you have any events around here.
Thanks again,
May the Triple Gem Bless you both .
Dear Piyal and Indi
Did not want to email you earlier as I presumed you would be inundated with mail after the retreat. Thank you both very much for a wonderful day. It was really a great blessing to see and hear Ajahn Brahm again. Hats off to you for organizing everything so well. It was great to see how the meal time was handled with no chaos in spite of a full house!
I registered for the meditation group but I am going to be away in Sri Lanka and from there on a two week pilgrimage to India. Will be back in Toronto only at the end of December. So I will miss the meditation in November and December. Will that be ok?
Wish you both good health and good fortune to continue with your meritorious deeds.
See you in the New Year
With Metta
Did not want to email you earlier as I presumed you would be inundated with mail after the retreat. Thank you both very much for a wonderful day. It was really a great blessing to see and hear Ajahn Brahm again. Hats off to you for organizing everything so well. It was great to see how the meal time was handled with no chaos in spite of a full house!
I registered for the meditation group but I am going to be away in Sri Lanka and from there on a two week pilgrimage to India. Will be back in Toronto only at the end of December. So I will miss the meditation in November and December. Will that be ok?
Wish you both good health and good fortune to continue with your meritorious deeds.
See you in the New Year
With Metta
Dear Indi and Piyal,
It was great experience for both of us doing Meditation and listening to Dhamma in a in manner easy to adapt to for practitioners from this wonderful monk Ajahn Brahm . Thank you very much for giving both of us this opportunity. I
I am sure most of the Dhamma Community will be ever so grateful to both of you for providing all of us this opportunity.
Much merit to you and your family. We will happy to participate in your monthly sittings.
With metta,
N and S
Dear Piyal and Indi,
Thank you very much for the meditation retreat on Saturday. The event was a success and the food was very nice too.
May the Triple Gem Bless you and your family.
Thank you so much for organizing this and giving us the opportunity for this medidation retreat.
You two has gone out of the way and done so much.
Oba dedanata Godak pin.
With meththa
Navina
Thank you and really appreciate your effort in making it a successful event. My blessings to you & your family!
I personally learnt valuable lessons from Ajahn Brahm . Thanks again for the organizing committee as well.
C
Dear Doctor and Indi,
I am sure you are having a very successful trip with the venerable thero.
Just wanted to say pin sidu wewa dahasak warayak for giving me the opportunity to attend the various programmes organised by you and above all for inviting us to partake in the dhane for the monk. It was indeed a rare opportunity and am ever grateful for that.
Once again thank you and much merit to both of you and the family. You gave many people the gift of the dhamma and that alone is such a meritorious deed.
Hi Piyal and Indira.
Thank you very much for the organizing of wonderful event.
Sriyani
Dear Piyal,
I just want to personally thank you very much for organizing this wonderful weekend with Ajahn Brahm. I was very impressed with the event and am grateful with the efforts that you all put in to make this event memorable. Attending his retreat and two of his other talks made my trip from Boston totally worthwhile with a lot more of memories and Ajahn's teaching to be treasured. I apologize for not coming to introduce myself to you in person as I would like to respect your privacy and noble silence. I look forward to attending more of the events such as this in the future.
Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ariya
Hi Indi and Piyal,
Just wanted to thank both of you for giving us the opportunity to meet Ajan Braham once again. We are blessed to have him in Toronto. The knowledge and the guidance which he gave is priceless and I am trying once again to meditate for a longer period of time according to the method he showed us yesterday. Please let him know my humble gratitude. Also are all the talks available on his website? Please let me know so that I can tell my interested clients the information.
Thank you both once again for bringing down Ajahn Braham to Canada.
May both of you attain the supreme of nirvana.
With Metta,
Puri
Thank you so much for arrnaging this most wonderful day. It was life altering for me. I am most interested in attending the monthly discussions.
Dear Dr. Walpola and Mrs. Walpola,
This is to thank you and your family for your great efforts to give people this wonderful opportunity of meeting Ajahn Brahm. It was a beautiful experience that cannot be described in mere words. Your kindness is much appreciated.
Thank you again.
May the Noble Triple Gem be with you and your family always!
Best regards,
Madhu
Thank you piyal, it was an amazing talk. the students who attended
(about 50) were soooo impressed. hope he comes back soon-
--
Tony Toneatto, Ph.D.
I had a great time, life changing experience. And I'm
also looking forward to once Sunday/month group
session, Please keep me posted on that one.
I am happy too.
Thank you so much,
D
Dear Indi and Piyal,
Thank-you for organizing the retreat .
May you attain Nibbana.
With Metta,
Dear Indi and Piyal,
It was great experience for both of us doing Meditation and listening to Dhamma in a in manner easy to adapt to for practitioners from this wonderful monk Ajahn Brahm . Thank you very much for giving both of us this opportunity. I
I am sure most of the Dhamma Community will be ever so grateful to both of you for providing all of us this opportunity.
Much merit to you and your family. We will happy to participate in your monthly sittings.
With metta,
Hi Piyal
I am writing this to express our profound gratitude to you and Indi for sponsoring and organizing Ajan Brahm;s retreat in Mississauga. It was meticulously organized. You and Indi must have spent lot of money on food and other snacks for over 300 people who came for the retreat.. It was amazing one family donating so much for this event. Thank you very much for all your efforts in providing us this opportunity. Ajan Brahm’s discourse, discussion and the evening lecture was greatly admired by all.
It was a great experience. You both deserve our sincere appreciation for being instrumental in bringing Ajan Brahm to Toronto.
We also appreciate your idea to meet once a month at the temple to listen to one Video presentation of Ajan Brahm and to discuss it. Please let us know the dates.
I wanted to thank you personally at the retreat. But you were busy and I decided that it is not the correct time and place to disturb you, even for few minutes.
Lucky (Your class mate at Ananda) and my wife Anoma join me expressing their gratitude to you and Indi for the opportunity given.
Thank you, Piyal Keep up you good Karma building!
With Metta,
Dear Piyal and Indi,
Thank you very much for the meditation retreat on Saturday. The event was a success and the food was very nice too.
May the Triple Gem Bless you and your family.
Please kindly keep me in your distribution, blog or email list.
I am interested in participating. Thank you
I would like to join the Ajahn Brahm group in Toronto. I have followed his teachings on the net for a year, and was present at his one day meditation retreat Saturday in Mississauga. Could you please let me know the location time, and readings of next meeting.
Dear Piyal and Indie,
This is a very inadequate way to show gratitude for the wonderful gift of dhamma you both arranged together with our temple for the rest of us. You did a wonderful job and I am so grateful that I was lucky to be able to play a very small part in it. That was a special privilege.
Everything was so well organized and it was a mighty task to orchestrate. One of the main plusses is that you made use of the West End Temple which is our dhamma home for those of us who are here in Mississauga. It was wonderful to spend a day bathed in the Buddha dhamma. As usual Ajahn Brahms is unique in the way he explains the teachings.
May both of you continue quickly on the path unhindered and reach whatever spiritual goals you have set for yourselves. I look forward to the monthly meetings that are to be held at the Mississauga temple in the near future.
With gratitude,
Thanks for your help.
Piyal,
Thank you so much for your hard work and being an atlas bearing the burden of the entire event.
Even though you had a team but as we say "Yojaks Tatra Durlabha", - an organizer is very difficult to find - and you did very well.
Namo Buddhay,
This was my first visit to Toronto Maha Vihara and felt truly blessed by the exceptional talk delivered by Ajahn Brahm.
Also thanks to Dr. Piyal Walpova, who graciously accepted my request and provided me an opportunity to join the Dhamma Forum.
Public Talks in Toronto
by Ajan Brahm
Women and Gender Equality in Theravada Buddhism
A Talk at McGill University, Montreal, 20th October, 2014
CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS
OCTOBER 20TH, 2014. MONTREAL
Registration for the one day meditataion retreat is now closed
You can still come for the public talks. Please refer to the schedule above..
Ajahn Brahm's Meditation Group in Toronto
Forming of this group was inspired from his visit to Toronto in November, 2012. The group will pledge to keep the five precepts and meet once a month to practice meditation. Joining this group is totally voluntary and is free of charge. Please click on the picture above to learn more
The Toronto Program
Please note that no registration is necessary for all the public talks. Registration is only necessary for the one day meditation retreat on the 18th of October.
New Flash:Ajahn Brahm's 2014 Canadian Visit
Ajahn Brahm will be visting three cities in Canada in October, 2014. He will be conducting public talks, dialogs and meditation sessions. Please visit this site and we will update details of the program as soon as possible.
A Program Update...
Preliminary Program in Toronto
A news update...
The Halifax program
2012 Toronto visit comments...
It was quite a success, we had close to 300 people and at least 60 of my students were there, many of them shared with me how impressed they were with the talk. Thanks for arranging it.
Tony Toneatto, PhD., CPsych.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Minor Program
New College, University of Toronto
I thoroughly enjoyed the November 8th talk.
Thanks Piyal and Indi.
I'm so happy that you were able to do this. Much merit to you two.
Thanks also for providing an opportunity for others to participate and help out.
Wish you all the Best.
E K
"Thank you Doc couple for that wonderful experiance with AB, wish he lives here. Both of you did some amazing community service - Thun saranai. His donkey story, Holy shit, abortion eye opener, etc so relevant and so simple........thank you againI just wanted to let you know how grateful I am for
Dear Indi & Piyal,
Bhante Saranapala wrote: "Dosthara Mahatthaya and Dosthara Nona, thank you so much for sponsoring his trip and organizing the retreat. Really appreciate your great interest in Dhamma. Much merit and many blessings !"
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Minor Program
New College, University of Toronto
Ajahn Brahm is a gift, no doubt about it.
He really is theMonk with Spunk!
Thank you Piyal and Indie for organizing such a
wonderful event. :-)
| Linda Cousins |
Dear Piyal,
We would like to express our appreciation to you and all of the volunteer who had helped to make the retreat a successful.
We had benefited so much from the retreat. Van could not attend but she had made herself a mini retreat at home and now could listen to all the talk you recorded.
Again thank you very much, may all the merit you have acquired will lead you to the true happiness.
With much metta
Dung & Van
Dear Piyal and Indi,
It is no secret that all who attended the retreat thanked both of you and also gave their blessings. It would not be fitting if we did not. Thus my wife and I wish to take this opportunity to say MUCH MERIT TO YOU for getting down this wonderful teacher. Once I completed the retreat I felt though a huge crane lifted me out of the mud which I was in. I learnt very much about the present moment silent keeping aside the steps of Ana Pana sathi. I believe the beginning is there.
I always was dreaming of getting him down for a good meditation session and as he said he laid the foundation. Above all the pleasant smile of his shows how happy he is.
Finally, much merit to both of you for that wonderful meditation session that you organised. I am sure the merits are huge and cannot be quantified.
Thank you very much for taking that photo and sending it to me.
With metta,
N and R
SABBA DANAM DHAMMA DANAM JINATHI
Dear Piyal,
First of all let me take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the hard work you put into organizing this retreat, amidst your hectic life, fulfilling duties as a doctor and a householder.
I have been meditating for many years on and off trying many methods. There have been good times and bad times.
On many occasions I am so anxious to get up from the lotus position due to pain and discomfort in my body.
When I sat with Ajahn Brahm on the 6th of November and when he taught us to be kind and compassionate to ourselves first for the first time in my life I experienced the beautiful breath and wanted to be with my breath, not even wanting to get up for lunch.
Since Ajahn left I have been practicing what I learnt and is enjoying my journey with the beautiful breath, happily, calmly and compassionately.
My immense gratitude to Ajahn Brahm from the bottom of my heart for visiting us in Toronto and to you Piyal for taking the time and trouble to organize this retreat making sure you find a place for everyone, without disappointing anybody. May you have the strength to walk the path towards Nirvana in this very life for all the immense good karma you accumulated by organizing this retreat where so many benefitted.
May the blessings of the Noble Triple Gem always be with you and your family
...
Dear Organizing Committe
I am greatly appreciative of the professionalism of the organizing committee and thank you all very much for the email notifications in this regard. Unfortunately I couldn’t attend to the meditation retreat because I became ill and didn’t want to disturb the stillness all other devotees or participants.
However I attended and enjoyed to his talk at Mahavihara in Scarborough. This was my second opportunity to listen to him thanks to Dr. Walpola. He was very practical, jovial and adorable person.
Thank you very much
Anand Kumar
Dear Piyal, Indie & team,
Its with much gratitude that I write this e-mail to thank you for organizing the retreat with Ajahn Brahm. It was such a blessing to have a Ajahn over here in Toronto and to have his guidance.
May the good kamma that you and your team accumulated by organizing this event help you in your own search of Truth !
Metta
R
Indi and Piyal
my deepest gratitude for
all the planning and hard work for the 3 day meditation
retreat in
Toronto.
I travelled from New York City
to attend. It was the experience
of a lifetime.
I learned so much about life and have many new tools to use in my meditation practice. The temple in Mississauga is beautiful and everyone there is so kind.
I wish that I lived closer so I could visit more often. Thank you to everyone who helped in organizing
this life
changing retreat.
| Amanda |
| 1:29pm Nov 12 |
Indi and Piyal,
you are amazing Sangha builders. (We say this in Thich Nhat Hanh's community - we sometimes use Sangha to
refer to the whole family of
monastics and laypeople,
because we are building
together- we can only build
together!) Really wonderful
and when it is so well done, it becomes
infectious and we just want to
help you and participate
more in future.
The temple in Mississauga is beautiful on the outside and
inside.
Sadhu, sadhu,
sadhu Mississauga temple.
| Lisa |
I'm so happy that you were able to do this. Much merit to you two.
Thanks also for providing an opportunity for others to participate and help out.
Wish you all the Best.
E K
CL
a. Letting me know about the Meditation program
b. Arranging it in the first place
... I sincerely hope that you both attain Nirvana soon ...
And please do keep in touch
Lots of love
IG
b. Arranging it in the first place
... I sincerely hope that you both attain Nirvana soon ...
And please do keep in touch
Lots of love
IG
Dear doctor,
Thank you very much for providing us the opportunity to participate at the retreat. It was a mind calming experience. The insight venerable Ajahan Braham gave are invaluable...
We have done some good kamma to have the opportunity to associate with kalayana mittas like all of you.
Thank you once again.
With metta
Ravi
Thank you very much for providing us the opportunity to participate at the retreat. It was a mind calming experience. The insight venerable Ajahan Braham gave are invaluable...
We have done some good kamma to have the opportunity to associate with kalayana mittas like all of you.
Thank you once again.
With metta
Ravi
Dr. Piyal, thank you so much for arranging this retreat. I have been listening to Ajahn Brahm for years and it was such privilege to meet him in person and attend one of his retreats. I meditated, listened his talks and laughed a lot during those three days. Thanks again.
Thanks so much for organizing a wonderful retreat,
3 days of full of niramisa happiness. 'Santhutti paraman danan' .
I shared the knowledge with so many of my non Buddhist friends
and I am pretty sure they have changed their attitude towards life.
May this meritorious deed help you achieve blissful nirvana in
this very life !!!
Sadhu.. sadhu... sadhu!!!
With metta,
M
Indi & Piyal,
Thank you
both for the opportunity
to participate
in the meditation retreat. Much metta to you
both and the others
who made it possible.
RA
D wrote: "Indi and Piyal, Much merit and blessings of the Noble Triple Gem to you both and your families. Thank you for allowing us to participate in your meritorious deed. You made so many people happy and gave the biggest gift of all to each and every one of us-THE GIFT OF DHAMMA."Dear Piyal and organizing committee
My deepest thanks for giving me a spot at the last moment.Thank you for the great
organization and all the work that went into it. May all the merits we accrued help us all see the
sublime reality of the Dhamma.
Metta
IP
| 10:54am Nov 10 |
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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