Bhante Sujatha

Bhante Sujatha

Bhante’s Itinerary

Apr. 8th (Mon)
Arrival 12:30pm

Apri. 9 (Tus)
4:00PM to 6:00PM PHIMA
$30/Cash or check Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture
301 E. Bethany Home Road, Suite A100
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Contact: Harumi, 480-768-7570, or email
harumiyoga@me.com
Carrie Thoreson, 602-274-1885 (ext. 112)
or email cthoreson@pihma.edu

Apri. 11 (Thu)
6:15PM to 8:15PM
$30/Cash or check Center for Pain and Supportive
4611 E Shea Blvd. Bldg 3, Suite 190
Phoenix, AZ 85028
480-889-0180
Contact: Julie Burch jburch@azcpsc.com
Harumi, 480-768-7570, harumimaejima@mac.com

Apri. 12 (Fri)
1-3PM Desert Foothills Library
$30/Cash or check 38443 N Schoolhouse Road
Cave Creek, AZ 85327
Contact:Dereth DeHaan,480-488-2286,
email, ddehaan@dfla.org
Harumi, 480-768-7570, harumimaejima@mac.com

4:30PM – 6:30PM Bodi Koyote/Black MT. Fitness
$30/Cash or check 6450 E Cave Creek Rd.,Cave Creek, AZ
Contact: Denise 480-488-0444 or
Harumi, 480-768-7570 or email
harumiyoga@me.com

Apri. 13 (Sat)
9:30 – 4:00
One Day Retreat Harumi Yoga +
$120 8787 E Pinnacle Peak
Scottsdale, AZ 85255
harumiyoga@me.com
480-292-9493

Apri. 14 (SUN)
0:00AM to Noon The Golden Door at the Boulders
$80.00 4631 North Tom Darlington Drive
Carefree, AZ 85377
Harumi Maejima, 480-768-7570 or
Sheri Claflin, 480-595-3514 E-mail Sheri.Claflin@WaldorfAstoria.com

2:00PM to 5:00PM Ann Van Slyck
(Registration & 4033 E Mission Lane
Refreshment) Phoenix, AZ 85028
Pre-registration for limited seating
$30/Cash or check Contact: Ann, 602-996-6395 or email avanslyck@cox.net
Harumi, 480-768-7570 or email,
harumiyoga@me.com

Apri. 15 (MON)
10AM to Noon Richardson Consulting and Counseling & Associates
2PM to 4PM Ken Richardson & Mary Richardson
$30/Cash or check 15020 N. Hayden Road, Suite 204
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Pre-registration for limited seating
Contac: Ann Van Slyck, 602-996-6395, email, avanslyck@cox.net

Apri. 16 (Tue)
Departure 9:30AM

Sales Items: CD’s $15
2-hours Meditation workshop $30/suggested donation

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Bhante Sujatha
Public Schedule for Bhante : October is just a few days away.

Oct. 9th (Tue)
5PM to 6PM Ann Van Slyck

(Registration & 4033 E Mission Lane
Refreshment) Phoenix, AZ 85028
6PM to 8PM Pre-registration for limited seating
$30/Cash or check Contact: Ann, 602-996-6395 or email avanslyck@cox.net
Harumi, 480-768-7570 or email,
harumiyoga@me.comOct. 10th (WED)
4:30PM to 6:30PM North Scottsdale Health Care
$30/Cash or check Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center
Creative arts room
10460 N 92nd St., room 203
Lindsay at SHC cell:480-620-5886Oct. 11th (THU)
10AM to Noon Richardson Consulting and Counseling & Associates
1PM to 3PM Ken Richardson & Mary Richardson $30/Cash or check 15020 N. Hayden Road, Suite 204 Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Pre-registration for limited seating
Contac: Ann Van Slyck, 602-996-6395, email, avanslyck@cox.net
7:30PM to 9:30PM Crescent Moon Yoga
$30/Cash or check 7825 Evans St, Suite 600 Scottsdale AZ
Contact:Dianne 480-595-9642
or email, yogadm@aol.comOct. 12th (FRI)
9AM to 11AM Center for Pain and Supportive
$30/Cash or check 4611 E Shea Blvd. Bldg 3, Suite 190
Phoenix, AZ 85028
480-889-0180
Contact: Julie Burch jburch@azcpsc.com
Harumi, 480-768-7570, harumimaejima@mac.com1-3PM Desert Foothills Library
$30/Cash or check 38443 N Schoolhouse Road
Cave Creek, AZ 85327
Contact:Dereth DeHaan,480-488-2286,
email, ddehaan@dfla.org
Harumi, 480-768-7570, harumimaejima@mac.com

4PM – 6PM Bodi Koyote/Black MT. Fitness
$30/Cash or check 6450 E Cave Creek Rd.,Cave Creek, AZ
Contact: Denise 480-488-0444 or
Harumi, 480-768-7570 or email
harumiyoga@me.com

Oct. 13th (SAT)
1PM to 3PM Terravita Country Club(Private Session)
$30/Cash or check Desert Pavilion Community Center
34034 N 69th Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85266
Contact: Harumi, 480-768-7570 or email,
harumiyoga@me.com

Oct. 14th (SUN) The Boulder
10AM to Noon The Golden Door Spa
2PM to 4P Pre-registration for limited seating
Contact: Harumi, 480-768-7570, or email
harumiyoga@me.com
Finding Happiness in the Western World and Deep Insight/Vippassasna

Oct. 15th (MON)
1PM to 3PM Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture (PIHMA students only)
301 E. Bethany Home Road, Suite A100
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Contact: Harumi, 480-768-7570, or email
harumiyoga@me.com
Carrie Thoreson, 602-274-1885 (ext. 112)
or email cthoreson@pihma.edu

4:30PM to 6:30PM North Scottsdale Health Care
$30/Cash or check Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center
Creative arts room
10460 N 92nd St., room 203
Lindsay at SHC cell:480-620-5886

Sales Items: CD’s $15
2-hours Meditation workshop $30/suggested donation

 


The Buddha was sitting under a tree talking to his disciples when a man came and spit on his face. He wiped it off, and he asked the man, “What next? What do you want to say next?” The man was a little puzzled because he himself never expected that when you spit on somebody’s face, he will ask, “What next?” He had no such experience in his past. He had insulted people and they had become angry and they had reacted. Or if they were cowards and weaklings, they had smiled, trying to bribe the man. But Buddha was like neither, he was not angry nor in any way offended, nor in any way cowardly. But just matter-of-factly he said, “What next?” There was no reaction on his part.

Buddha’s disciples became angry, they reacted. His closest disciple, Ananda, said, “This is too much, and we cannot tolerate it. He has to be punished for it. Otherwise everybody will start doing things like this.”

Buddha said, “You keep silent. He has not offended me, but you are offending me. He is new, a stranger. He must have heard from people something about me, that this man is an atheist, a dangerous man who is throwing people off their track, a revolutionary, a corrupter. And he may have formed some idea, a notion of me. He has not spit on me, he has spit on his notion. He has spit on his idea of me because he does not know me at all, so how can he spit on me?

“If you think on it deeply,” Buddha said, “he has spit on his own mind. I am not part of it, and I can see that this poor man must have something else to say because this is a way of saying something. Spitting is a way of saying something. There are moments when you feel that language is impotent: in deep love, in intense anger, in hate, in prayer. There are intense moments when language is impotent. Then you have to do something. When you are angry, intensely angry, you hit the person, you spit on him, you are saying something. I can understand him. He must have something more to say, that’s why I’m asking, “What next?”

The man was even more puzzled! And Buddha said to his disciples, “I am more offended by you because you know me, and you have lived for years with me, and still you react.”

Puzzled, confused, the man returned home. He could not sleep the whole night. When you see a Buddha, it is difficult, impossible to sleep again the way you used to sleep before. Again and again he was haunted by the experience. He could not explain it to himself, what had happened. He was trembling all over and perspiring. He had never come across such a man; he shattered his whole mind and his whole pattern, his whole past.

The next morning he was back there. He threw himself at Buddha’s feet. Buddha asked him again, “What next? This, too, is a way of saying something that cannot be said in language. When you come and touch my feet, you are saying something that cannot be said ordinarily, for which all words are a little narrow; it cannot be contained in them.” Buddha said, “Look, Ananda, this man is again here, he is saying something. This man is a man of deep emotions.”

The man looked at Buddha and said, “Forgive me for what I did yesterday.”

Buddha said, “Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you.”

“And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else.”

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This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.

Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty,
medium, short or small,

The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born —
May all beings be at ease

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.

Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;

Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.

 

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