Dhamma Mutta Project: How You Can Help?
This page : Participating in the Project | Assisting through Dana | Dana Paramis
While the TWPMC is progressing forward in the application for Tung Wan Land, you could show support by:
Participating in Planning and Development of the Dhamma Mutta Project
We welcome everyone to join the project team. Utilize your skills in various areas including: structural and groundwork for slopes, mechanical & electrical engineering, landscape architecture, environmental protection, project management or site supervision etc., please contact Mr. K.W. PUN at <kwpun@litecraft.com.hk> or mobile number 9016-8110.
Assisting through Dana (Donation)
If you wish to perform ‘dana paramis’ i.e merit of donation, please fill in the Dana Pledge form which is available online and return to us by mail. We appreciate your support in participating in the land purchase and construction of Dhamma Mutta – the dwelling of Dhamma where we learn the art of living and liberated from sufferings. Please contact Stacey CHAN at <staceychan@ymail.com> or mobile number 6304-5000 for further information.
More on Dana Paramis (Merit of Donation)
This is a great opportunity for those who wish to enhance their ‘Dana Paramis’, i.e. merit of donation. Building a Vipassana meditation centre is the best way to perform ‘Dhamma Dana Paramis’, merit of giving Dhamma, the highest order of all other forms of donations. As pointed out by Goenkaji in his article Building the dwelling of the Dhamma, meditation centres are “the only places devoted to this particular transmission of the teachings, to this particular form of Vipassana ….. a true dwelling of the Dhamma, in the shelter of which, many may find the way out of suffering.”
The Buddha spoke the following verses to the merchant of Rajagaha who donated to the Sangha the first dwellings for meditation:-
Lenattham ca Sukhattham ca Jhayitum Ca Vipassitum, viharadanama sanghassa, aggam Buddhena vannitam
Tasma hi pandito poso sampassam atthamattano vihare karaye ramme vasayettha bahusutte
Sheltering and conduciveness to concentration and insight, a place of meditation is praised by Enlightened Ones as the greatest gift to the Sangha.
Therefore a wise man, considering his own welfare, should build pleasant dwellings in which those who have heard much about Dhamma may stay (and practice it)
~ Vinaya, Culavagga 1.1 (147)
Some Articles on Dana by Goenkaji
Additional Information
May all beings be happy!
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