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Dear alex, today i had a beautiful and inspiring conversation with dhammarato with the purpose of clarifying the points about the mission statement for the OSF, in addition to the recordings that he will make available for transcription, i took some notes with what i regarded as important and could be helpful for the document.
We started from the concept of triple gem, in which dhammarato said that the most important of the three is actually the sangha, that in fact had originated at the time of the Buddha, when bhikkhus started to get along in nobility and friendship with one another. The triple gem is in fact being friend on the inside, friend on the outside and so developing the qualities of the buddha. In fact we heard many times how buddhism and dharma is based upon friendship, noble friendship.
So then we came to the mission itself, which is about networking for people who want to join or continue to stay on the path, facilitating them with some structure as a reference point and facilitating major life changes that many people are going through in their lives.
In fact the OSF will reach:
Monks (ajahn, – some names are in the recording) who already teach the noble dharma to add sangha to their teaching equation.
Affirmed western teacher to bring in the dana orientation
But also: aspiring teachers or teachers that want to get established, so that they can find a context of support and reference point trough “eastern oriented” existing buddhist structures
The idea is to remove the exchange of money
But also: people who want to go to asia, to give them support finding facilities, friends, monks, noble monks and learn from the asian perspective.
But also: people who just google dharma
Then we went again through the importance of friendship on how the OSF will bring together different buddhist traditions and people will have the possibility to get along for similarities rather than arguing on the differences, accumulated by the movement of change that is going through their lives.
Here some other features of the website:
website meetings, groups, spread the dharma, contact teachers, meet and greet—meet friends and stay. western community.
website helping people find temples, clubs, organizations near them and map it.
profile of volunteers with bio.
donation
Here some values: Morality (came after wisdom) Joy, friendship
To say that the community is already forming, and this website will facilitate.
In the end, personally I would say that this is the opportunity for people to jump, or follow the stream. change ther lives, let go of their job and the bank account and jump right in completely.
Dhammarato picks up new people, but there will come a point when he will not have the power to help us further, and so the network will be of primary importance. again for this reason is a pleasure for me to help build and develop the sangha. HAVE A GREAT DAY, SEE YOU SOON FRIEND!
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