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Experience Vipassana At Our Regina Buddhist Center
We are happy to see newcomers at any of our vipassana meditation section. Join the community to participate in the center`s life and the discussion club.
dharma protocolBefore Visiting the Buddhist Center Learn
Before Visiting the Buddhist Center Learn
Dharma Protocol
Some Basic Guidelines
for intensive Vipassana Meditation and Rules of Conduct for The Meditation Hall
- Meditators should stay alone and observe silence. Socializing is not encouraged at all.
- Lay meditators must carefully observe the eight precepts. Smoking is not allowed. Monks and nuns must strictly observe their respective monastic discipline.
- Meditator must strictly adhere to the meditation teacher’s instructions and should not practice according to the other meditation methods.
- Meditators should not get involved in any activities not related to intensive meditation (e.g. listening to the radio, listening to the tapes, doing massage, taking photographs, collecting books, performing acupuncture, receiving visitors, cooking food, learning or teaching English, Burmese, Pali.)
- Meditators must restrain their senses; they should act like a blind, deaf, dumb, sick and dead person.
- Meditators should practice with : respect and sincerity, diligence, honesty and straight-forwardness, heroic effort, perseverance, sustained, continuous, moment-to-moment mindfulness from the time of waking up in the morning to the time of falling asleep at night.
- Generally meditation is for people with a normal and stable mind. If, however, a person is not in shape to do intensive meditation practice, and can not conform to the strict discipline, then that person may not be admitted as a yogi.
- Absolutely no talking in the meditation hall. Please avoid making noise and causing disturbances of any kind to fellow meditators.
- Please do not be late for the sitting periods.
- Do not change the position and speed of the fans after the beginning of a sitting period. Also do not switch lights on/off or open/close windows during a sitting period.
- Please do not do walking meditation in the meditation hall during the sitting periods.
- Please do not walking in a rough, noisy, brisk or zap-zap manner. Do not walk close to the sitting meditators.
- Please sit in line with the meditators in front of you and on either side.
- Please do not fold the sitting cushion and then sit on it.
- Please do not take the sitting cushion to your room or anywhere else.
- Group sittings in the meditation hall are compulsory unless the meditation teacher gives special permission to sit in one’s room.
- Refrain from meditating in the lying posture in the meditation hall.
- Please do not do physical exercise in the meditation hall. Physical exercise to a limited extent in one’s room is permitted.
scheduleOur Daily
Our Daily
Schedule
Regina Buddhist Center is open every day from 8.00 A.M. to 8.00 P.M. Except Fridays, when it is open from 8:00 A.M. till 8:30 P.M. This is our habitual schedule:
- 7:00 Morning Metta Chanting
- 7:30 Breakfast for Monks
- 8:00 Study
- 9:00 Preferred appointment registration time
- 11:00 Dhamma Talk
- 11:30 Lunch for Monks
- 12:30 Blessing service for devotees after lunch followed by Meditation
- 13:00 Resting Time
- 14:00 Meeting by Appointment
- 15:00 Metta Chanting
Address
1320 St John St, Regina, SK S4R 1S3
Hours
Monday - Saturday8:00 AM - 8:30 PM