Ariyagiri Vipassana Foundation: Fund Raising Appeal For Meditation Hall Project

Nothing is really ours. Think about the things that you hold to as your own external wealth, the possessions with and without consciousness that are said to be yours. Can you really take them with you when you go? Your land, your home, your furnishings, all the things that the mind holds on to: can you really claim them to be your own? Can the mind take them along as its own belongings when it goes to be reborn? When you have no more breath to breathe, you have no more rights to these things. You can't continue to hold onto them as "my children," "my husband," "my wife," "my grandchildren," "my home," "my millions and thousands in the bank."

Adhuvo loko. Sabbam pahaya gamaniyam.

The world is unstable. One must go on, abandoning everything.

None of the world's wealth belongs to us. And we don't belong to it. There's nothing but "gaminiyam": there's nothing but leaving and dying. In other words, you can't really hold to these things as your own. You have rights over them only for this life.

After death the body lies rotting on the ground and is cremated. People come in this world never ask permission from parents, When they go also without asking permission. From where they had come, where will they go, Its unknown for all.

Look at other people, Parents and grandparents, where have they all gone? They are dead.

There is nothing to cling to in this world. Ask yourself, ‘What can I take with me when I die?

Make up your mind to be courageous in doing only the good, without fear or apprehension for any obstacle whatsoever. The person who trusts in the Triple Gem, the person with true happiness, the person who prospers, achieving his or her desired goals, is the person who does only the good.

Like all good deeds, an act of giving will bring us happiness. From little one should little give, from moderate means likewise,

From much give much: of giving nothing no question can arise.

Give alms of that is thine:

Eat not alone, no bliss is his that by himself shall dine,

By charity you may ascend the noble path divine.

Giving (dana) is one of the essential preliminary steps of Buddhist practice. When practiced in itself, it is a basis of merit or wholesome kamma. When coupled with morality, concentration and insight, it leads ultimately to liberation from samsara, the cycle of repeated existence.

Everybody in this world want peace and harmony, but because of our ignorance always we get the suffering. About 2500 years ago Our Goutama the Buddha had found out the way to attain highest peace of Nibbana. And the way he discovered following this dhamma anyone can attain peace.

To spread this path, to spread this Dhamma by the donation of beautiful donors we are constructing this meditation centre, so people from local and abroad can visit and practice dhamma and meditation.

But in these days, We are struggling for funds, our construction got stuck at the second phase due to short of funds.

We would like to appeal to you our benefactors to share in this opportunity to create immense merits and collective good karma as this enables Buddha’s teaching to take root strongly in Mizoram state of India.

Your contribution will steer us forward to accomplish our goals and aims – benefiting all sentient beings with the precious Dharma.

The Buddha taught that the supreme means of accumulating merit and wisdom through our body, speech, and mind is through building monasteries and teaching centers, especially where there have been none before. Of the three types of generosity—material generosity, generosity of giving protection, and generosity of giving the Dharma—the highest is Dharma generosity.

But just wishing to provide the Dharma is not enough—there must be a place for people who need the Dharma to meet. Once the monastery is completed, it will not be a place where only one person comes; it will be a place where thousands of people come. And it will not be a place where only one person teaches, as there will be many different teachers. And with many teachers and limitless students meeting in a place where there was no monastery ever before, there is a tremendous benefit. The peerless benefit of making the teachers and the Dharma available continues not for one day or a year, but for generations. And within those generations, the benefit that comes from this project will be limitless.

There is a reason why the Buddha said that building teaching centers and monasteries where none existed before is a supreme means of accumulating merit. When you truly help one individual through material generosity, or protection, or by giving the Dharma, there is a great benefit indeed. But the help that you are providing is to only one person. When you build a monastery, you benefit countless beings, and the merit that you accumulate is supreme.

Even when there is no teaching going on within the monastery, by simply being there it inspires the mind and develops the devotion of people who visit. Through such inspiration, people come to follow the path and are led to its fruition; this could be the result of their initial contact with the monastery and the Dharma. The merit in this is beyond any conception.

To establish a Vihara for the Sangha of The Buddha, soothing somebody with the words, ‘please help to build,’ ‘please donate,’ ‘please give a hand with the work’…”—any group of people who help to build a monastery, even during sleep, while standing up, eating, whatever they do, the merit of building the temple continuously increases, immeasurably.

Dear Dhamma brothers and sisters the supreme means of accumulating merit and wisdom through our body, speech, and mind is through building monasteries and Dhamma teaching centers, especially where there have been none before. Of the three types of generosity—material generosity, generosity of giving protection, and generosity of giving the Dharma—the highest is Dharma generosity.

Dhamma Friends Your help is need to complete our Centre. Chief abbot of Ariyagiri Vipassana Meditation Centre and We Ariyagiri Vipassana Meditation Centre invite all of you to joint us Giving help fundraising for the construction of the meditation hall project. We Estimated it INR ₹1,062,500/

USD $15,500/ SGD $20,000/ RM 62,000 Your greatest gift to the monastery is always your practice, the benefits of which ripple out beyond the monastery grounds into our homes, neighborhoods, communities, and world.

We Deeply invite all of you to joint us Giving help fundraising for the construction of the meditation hall project. Your greatest gift to the Meditation Centre will great help to our Dhamma community. We are trying so hard to complete as Soon as possible. So we can practice meditation on this rain retreat. we will start construction work once we able to buy all the needed materials and the need funds.

100% of your donation goes to support the cause you care about. Your donation goes directly to the Meditation Centre.

Through your generous and kind donations we hope to start the construction to complete the meditation centre soon. Once the centre is completed, people from all parts of India and abroad will have the opportunity to learn meditation.

A donation, large or small, is the most wholesome way to support the project. This gives the centre the best financial conditions to develop. A donation can be given to the centre’s bank account or by using the PaylPal link

Kiran Baran Chakma

Ac/Number: 30926766458

Swift Code: SBININBB477

IFSC CODE: SBIN0005819

STATE BANK OF INDIA, TLABUNG BRANCH

Demagiri 796751 India

Adress for online transactions

Kiran Baran Chakma

Village: Diblibagh

P.O: Demagiri

PIN 796751

Dist. Lunglei