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THE BROOKING STREET BUGLE
Issue No. 51 (New Series)
ISSN 1321 -1463

Publication Date: 2 February 2001

Published and Printed by:
The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488
33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria Australia 3158. Telephone and Fax +61 3 9754 3334
e-mail address wbu@bdcu.org.au
World Fellowship of Buddhists Regional Centre

Lifetimes of Learning
and the cultivation of Friendliness, Practicality, Professionalism,
Cultural Adaptability and Scholarship.

Editor: John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem.,T.T.T.C., GDAIE
Vice-president, World Fellowship of Buddhists
Assistant Editor: Pennie White BA. Dip Ed

Confidentiality Policy

There is no guaranteed right to privacy in Australia. The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488, has always safeguarded the privacy of Members and Friends of our Centre.

The Buddha Dhyana Dana Review and The Brooking Street Bugle are now online publications. Just as we would not disclose telephone numbers, addresses, fax numbers, email address or any other personal information including job suitability of Members over the telephone, we would not disclose such information over the Internet.

Our Membership list is confidential. In cases where such requests are made, we obtain the details of the person and pass the message along. We do not keep case studies on Members. This precaution becomes increasingly important with the globalisation of our information and communication.

INDEX

1. Glossary

2. Coming Events

3. Sangha News

4. Keynote Opportunities

5. Information Technology News

6. Our Fundraising Appeals and Special Projects

7. John D. Hughes NEWS

8. Current Research Interests

9. Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S)

10. Corporate Governance & Reporting (CGR)

11. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)

12. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)

13. Member's News

14. Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast

15. Ch’an and Sumi-e Classes

16. New Additions to the John D. Hughes Collection

17. Our Websites

18. Sharing of Merit

1. GLOSSARY

dissertation Writing in the form of an essay or thesis.

2. COMING EVENTS

3. SANGHA NEWS

Reclining Buddha Image Arrives

The Venerable Ajarn Chanhphy Panyano Manivong attended the Centre for the arrival of the new Reclining Buddha Image on Wednesday 31 January at 3.40pm.

Members expressed heartfelt gratitude to the benefactor. Those present were Julian Bamford, Tempe Bamford, Jedda Bamford, Emily Deacon, Rilla Oellien, Phillip Svensson, Jan Bennett and son Lee Bennett, Frank Carter and Clara Iaquinto.

We are happy that the image could safely arrive at a suitable location where persons can practice Buddha Dhamma. The image was delivered by Frank Carter.

A Buddha Rupa Image is one of the highest gifts of Dhamma and reminds us to work even harder to follow the path of our chosen faith.

Ajarn has been invited to the Centre to perform the dotting of the eyes ceremony.

Dhamma Teachings by visiting Sangha

The Venerable Bhante Kassapa visited our Centre on 29 January 2001. Members offered Dana to Venerable Bhante Kassapa. Members were asked what they had learnt from the Prajnaparamita Teachings and then gave a Dhamma talk extending their knowledge. He spoke of the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path and keeping Eight Precepts.

Thank you to Tim Browning for providing transport for the Venerable Bhante Kassapa.

Bhavana Course

Francisco So conducted a Puja at the opening of the Five Day Bhavana Course from 26 to 30 December 2000.

Our Teacher John D. Hughes, taught Members about respect for parents, children, spouses and parents. He also taught that taking and accepting hardship as part of our responsibility.

A dissertation can be located on our LAN at ref: i:/jdh/5dydec00.doc or web sites: www.bdcu.org.au and www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap in the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol. 10. No.3 Online.

Bodhisattva pigeon

An unexplained event occurred in December last year before delegates from the Buddhist Discussion Centre went to Thailand for the World Fellowship of Buddhists conference.

We welcomed the Bodhisattva pigeon Svaha who came to reside at our Centre to protect our Teacher, his Students and this Temple.

On Sunday 28 January 2001 a similar incident occurred when a new female Bodhisattva pigeon arrived at the Centre invited by Svaha. She has cream, tan and pink feathers. Her name is Jaria.

Members sense the pleasing calm of the Bodhisattva Minds of our new residents.

Person seeing these Bodhisattva pair find it is much easier to breath. They are undemanding and do not cause trouble to persons.

Prajnaparamita Images

The Great Master who created the Prajnaparamita images has not done so since the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama more than 50 years ago.

The Gyuto Monks will bring the Prajnaparamita images from India to our Centre for a welcome ceremony.

Sangha request for Buddhist Hour Broadcast Recordings

Venerable Tang from the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Fawkner plays recordings of the Buddhist Hour for his younger Vietnamese students who cannot speak much Vietnamese.

4. KEYNOTE OPPORTUNITIES

Website Training

Learn to create and maintain Dhamma websites for our Teacher with Evelin Halls.

Writing International Standard English

Learn to write in a style accessible to English as a second language reader assisting with the preparation of the Centre’s publications.

First Aid Training

Anita Svensson will be holding training session for First Aid Training on Monday, Tuesday and Friday evenings after JDH Teachings.

Preserving the Buddha Dhamma Teachings

As we are living in a Dhamma ending age, it is important that we preserve the Buddha’s Teachings. Members are welcome to assist with the audio taping of Dhamma Teachings by our Teacher John D. Hughes by referring to the Roster Book which is located in the CGR Office.

5. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online

The Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Vol.10 No.3 is at www.bdcu.org.au and www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap.

The WFB Standing Committee on Women web site

The World Fellowship of Buddhists Standing Committee on Women website was launched on Saturday 6 January 2001 by Anita Svensson and Evelin Halls. The webmaster for this site is Anita Svensson.

The World Fellowship Standing Committee on Women Newsletter was uploaded on Monday 15 January 2001 at 12:30 am. The site can be accessed through www.bdcu.org.au.

Communication is essential in Management

A Log Book is now located near PC4 to record work done on the Centre’s computers.

6. OUR FUNDRAISING APPEALS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

Saint Valentine’s Day Gifts and Flower Stall

Julian Bamford and Frank Carter are preparing for the Saint Valentines Day Gift and Flower stall to be held on 14 February 2001.

Fragrance Corner

Members can help in managing this project by speaking with Evelin or Julian and by referring to the ‘Roster Folder 2001’ kept in the CGR office.

Dragon King Photograph

The Dragon King cards are available for $10 including GST.

Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Fundraiser

The gift of Dhamma excels all other gifts. Please make your contribution payable to the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. and mail to our address or place in the Dana box.

7. JOHN D. HUGHES NEWS

John D. Hughes’s Trip to The Nobbies

Maria Pannozzo accompanied John D. Hughes to the Nobbies in Cowes on Phillip Island on the 31 January and 1 February 2001. The sea air was very beneficial for our Teacher’s health and long life.

8. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Books

One of the books John D. Hughes is writing is called The Library You Are Looking For.

White Paper

John D. Hughes is writing a paper called White Paper on Education Management for ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) and EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) systems for a Geological Museum and Training Centre at Phillip Island, Victoria Australia.

Following is an extract:

This white paper is intended to make clear the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) ways and EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) systems that stakeholders and users need to understand are in place to establish a commercial geological Museum in the State of Victoria.

The market audience for our cultural training

Our market audience is persons who possess medium to superior capacities that have developed over time through the practice of dana and sila.

They are persons who are bound to improve. These are like persons facing East just as the sun arising and every moment of the future brings more and more light and understanding to their mind. Even if they are shuddering from the frost of the evening, as we help them, warmth will come to them and they will be able to follow the Teachings given by the five education's.

They are recognisable because they do not fall into sustained depression or discourage others from education and do not have “closed minds”. They recognise when Winter comes Spring cannot be far away.

Just as a fish thrown onto burning hot sand cannot last long and cannot develop good minds, so we cannot cater for persons whose rigid minds discourage their education, or the education of others keep them closed from the educational opportunities that we provide. People or persons who are very greedy for materiality have minds that are facing West, just as the shadow of the sun begins to form in a short time, their mind will be enveloped in darkness.

Persons who are fond of memories of consumption of resources rather than the production of resources for use by self and others arise too large an energy barrier. They awaken their negative latencies to generate Angst that will take them away from being a useful human being.

The Museum has five uplifting tiers.

The first one is that we have developed amazing clear perceptions of what is the Museum’s catalytic significance. The catalytic significance is the improvement of a person’s mental health and the tiers along which it advances.

The second tier is to generate an interest in third order or higher cognitive processes towards becoming a suitable actualiser to assist those who share in the fun of this topic as a hobby or career.

An actualiser is a person who spends small time in the “waste quadrant” where performance is high but the area of enterprise has little importance.

But, to begin, we must have something concrete to inspire our helpers to get them to agree about our approach to the nature and measurement of costs and benefits.

While we agree that information costing and valuing remains “difficult” for us, we must take a firm position otherwise we may get “paralysis by analysis” and never get the derided information products into performance.

As Sassons (1988) neatly summaries this situation: "at any time, the prominence of cost justification is proportional to its difficulty”.

To break the nexus with something affordable with some cognitive effort, we selected the use of quadrant-based decisions about changing priorities as an activity-promoting device.

The “success” quadrant indicates areas where both priority and performance are high.

The “waste” quadrant is where performance is high but the area is of less importance.

“OK” indicates the intersection of low priority and performance; and “killer” is the area of greatest vulnerability where priority is high but performance low.

These presentations have to be interpreted with a good understanding of the specific organisational context of the Museum.

The third tier is to help people find “the number” (how much the museum can give away) and still have a fund surplus.

Our history of handling derived information products of a Museum is too new to know the “number” that can be given away (as dana) and yet generate an annual surplus.

We do not wish to energise and excite persons with products that go nowhere and do not leave an annual surplus.

The first intriguing version of the Conceptual Plan was written on 31 January 2000, and John D. Hughes and Associates Pty. Ltd. registered the business name Geological Museum @ Upwey.

Naturally, the plan was incomplete in administrative details about generating a steady measurable surplus.

The insight suggests that just because something is intriguing it does not mean it is right if it cannot generate a surplus.

There is little point in using Museum resources to excite persons unless at some time, you can guide them to act as with your business plan and make a surplus as some kind of profit.

From our recent experiments last year, we know that there is little doubt that the provision of a series of viewing opportunities of Museum specimens gave our viewing public some excitement.

Tay Vaughan, a multimedia pioneer, reminds us that a classic physical anthropology law (Leibig’s Law of Minimum's) proposes that the evolution of eyesight, locomotor speed, sense of smell, or any other species trait will cease when that trait becomes sufficiently adequate to meet the survival requirements of the competitive environment.

If the trait is good enough, the organism expends no more effort improving it.

Vaughan’s Law of Multimedia Minimum's states there is an acceptable level of adequacy that will satisfy the audience, even when that level may not be the best that technology, money or time and effort can buy.

This Law is considered as part of our project plan.

There is no getting away from that fact that however strong and experienced the present curator of a Museum might be, by himself he could do little if not ably and sympathetically supported by his or her co-workers.

We are fortunate that as the cogitative work has been done over the last year we have found references that look at the limitations of conventional Boolean retrieval.

A well-known measure is the co-ordination-level match, which ranks documents according to the number of items in common between a query Q = ( q1, q2,……qt) and document Di = (wi1,wi2,……wit).

Note that this similarity measure can be expressed as:

t

Sim (Qi Di) = å q j t f ij

J=1

In this case q j is 1 if term tj is present in the query and 0 otherwise.

Documents with the most terms in common with the query are thus ranked highest.

According to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) researchers (1991), ranking algorithms based on probabilistic theory have been proposed to overcome the deficiencies of Boolean retrieval for full text documents.

It can be argued that this matching process of the above formula is closest to an unmodified AND search in a Boolean environment.

Refer to the paper by Ross Wilkinson et al. Automatic Indexing and searching of full Text Databases: A Pilot Study. In Victorian Association for Library Automation OPEC AND BEYOND 6^th Biennial Conference and Exhibition Melbourne 11 to 13 November 1991.

The fourth tier is the way forward for the Museum to take on a role where we increase our public relations skills as the basis of our ability to deliver high quality motivational material from our website. Public relation skills can be the hook for fleeting minds or could be compared to a rainbow that draws attention to the part of the sky we want to look at.

Bill Gates of Microsoft has great confidence that the Internet is going to change education as fundamentally as it changed when we had printed books.

The educational material that we will produce can arouse affect about geology as a desirable subject to study because computers can reduce learning time for certain types of knowledge by 30 per cent.

Benefits include improved computer literacy skills, networking and information gathering skills.

In a world where performance doubles every 18 months, even relatively mature technologies may have limited life spans.

We have been building a series of websites and these are quality systems. Whilst having a quality system is a marketing advantage today, not having a quality system will be a disadvantage in a few years time. In 1996, we were scanning our early newsletters and early Buddha Dhyana Dana Reviews so that they could be machine readable.

The fifth tier is communication.

What is the outcome of our education?

The outcome is to improve mental health.

At our Museum we place great value on preventing the degradation of the lived existence of members of the “connected society”.

These persons will have swapped the nature and pace of their old industrial work for the new economy of information age “connected” work.

The old work was not free of stress but at least there was some feeling of power over the work.

It has been suggested that much depression that is work-related is also associated with a feeling of powerlessness.

It has been reported that the profound effects on stress levels of the general population in the new market place has lead the World Health Organisation to predict that by 2020 stress will account for half of the top ten medical problems in the world.

When the substance of a person’s work life as regards nearly all aspects of their work is in another person’s hands and, work becomes the central feature of their life, it ought come as no surprise that he or she looks for stress relief outside the reward of hard work.

Many persons seek relaxation from stress by adopting life styles that involve sport competition with their peers even if the type of relaxation itself involves a pretence risk and is favoured by the upwardly social mobile.

Mental health of the population is becoming an issue for governments.

9. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

Offerings to Padmasambhava

As of the 8 January 2001 material offerings of flowers are inappropriate for the Padmasambhava altar as the potential for broken vases is high. Offerings of flowers can be done from inside by visualising the offering being made to the main altar.

Maintaining our Centre as a Suitable Location for the Buddha Dhamma to be Propagated

Members are requested to help maintain a high standard of cleanliness by referring to a list of tasks available in the Roster Folder 2001.

Hand washing

Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) information about hand washing has been put up in the bathroom and the amenities block.

10. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & REPORTING (CGR)

Colour Code: Red.

CGR Manager: Anita Svensson

Members of CGR Task Unit: Pam Adkins, Lenore Hamilton, Rilla Oellien, Amber Svensson, Isabella Hobbs, Lisa Nelson, Anita Svensson, Evelin Halls, Rodney Johnson, Clara Iaquinto, Lainie Smallwood and Santi Sukha.

(administration, adhering to legal requirements of corporate affairs, accounts, organising general meetings, payment of accounts, scheduling events, OH&S, attendants for the centre, maintenance of data bases, maintenance of office supplies and communicating with government departments.)

The CGR report from 1 July 2000 to 31 January 2001 will be included as an attachment to the next issue of the Brooking Street Bugle, No 52.

CGR Databases

Pennie White and Rilla Oellien have constructed two new CGR Database. One for correspondence and one for CGR Activities.

Brooking Street Bugle Online

As part of our Enterprise Asset Management we encourage Members to read and print the Brooking Street Bugle off-line from our website address: www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap

Information Collection Record from Telephone Calls

Members please use the telephone log book located in the CGR office to record incoming and outgoing telephone calls.

11. INTERNATIONAL DHAMMA ACTIVITIES (IDA)

Colour Code: Yellow.

IDA Manager: John D. Hughes

Joint Vice-Presidents: John D. Hughes, Julian Bamford

IDA Task Unit Members: Pam Adkins, Tim Browning, Vince Cavuoto, Leanne Eames, Evelin Halls, Jocelyn Hughes, Vanessa Macleod, Julie O’Donnell, Rilla Oellien, Maria Pannozzo, Orysia Spinner, Santi Sukha, Amber Svensson, Anita Svensson and Pennie White.

(Dhamma and Prajnaparamita Teachings, chanting, pujas, translations, John D. Hughes Collection, audio and video recording, IT systems, websites, webmaster training, e-commerce, Data Warehouse, LAN, BDDR, BSB, Buddhist Hour Hillside Broadcast, Ch’an & Sumi-e classes)

Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Volume 10. No. 3 Online at www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap and www.bdcu.org.au

Working documents for the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online are kept in our Hall of Assembly. The current Do List is at file ref: I:/km/bddr/v10n3/todolist.

12. LOCAL AREA PLANNING & ASSET MANAGEMENT (LAPAM)

Colour Code: Green.

LAPAM Manager: Frank Carter

Julian Bamford, Jan Bennett, Tim Browning, Frank Carter, Brendan Hall, Lenore Hamilton, Isabella Hobbs, David Igracki, Leila Lamers, Lyne Lehmann, Lisa Nelson and Pennie White.

The Local Area Planning and Asset Management Task Unit is responsible for constructions, maintenance, site works, refurbishment, plant & equipment and new building materials.

13. MEMBER’S NEWS

On Sunday 21 January Stuart Amoore travelled by air to Thailand via Singapore for a three week stay in to Bangkok, during which time he will be staying with friends and visiting a number of Temples.

14. BUDDHIST HOUR RADIO BROADCAST

Hillside Radio 87.6 & 88.0 FM

Our Buddhist Hour program is now global and your help is need to write two radio scripts per week.

The 'Buddhist Hour' radio show is broadcast live on Internet radio at www.gbradio.com on Sundays from 11am to 12 noon.

This means that persons from all around the world are able to hear the Radio Broadcast that consists of chanting and Buddha Dhamma texts.

As ‘gbradio’ is a very popular station, it may happen that you cannot get a connection. In that case, just keep trying until you get through.

Thank you to Station Managers, Brendan and Janette Grainger at Hillside Radio and to Great Britain Radio and their technicians and Webmasters.

Lisa Nelson and Julian Bamford now share the position of Program Producer.

15. CH’AN AND SUMI-E CLASSES

CH’AN CLASSES

Taught by Julian Bamford and Jan Bennett under the guidance of Master John D. Hughes. Classes run from 1pm – 4pm.

Ch’an fees per class are $66 including GST.

The Class dates for 2001 are:

Summer

Sunday 25 February

Sunday 25 March

Autumn

Sunday 29 April

Sunday 27 May

Winter

Sunday 24 June

Sunday 30 July

Sunday 27 August

Spring

Sunday 24 September

Sunday 29 October

Sunday 26 November 2001

SUMI-E CLASSES

Sumi-e Classes are taught by visiting Teacher, Master Andre Sollier. Classes run from 1pm – 4pm.

Sumi-e fees per class are $66 including GST.

The Class Dates for 2001 are:

Autumn

Saturday 17 March

Saturday 21 April

Saturday 12 May

Winter

Saturday 9 June

Saturday 14 July

Saturday 18 August

Spring

Saturday 15 September

Saturday 13 October 2001

Saturday 10 November 2001

Summer

Saturday 9 December

A special workshop on ‘How to Stretch and Preserve Paintings’ will be taught by Andre Sollier on Saturday 31 March 2001 and Saturday 24 November 2001.

Please contact Julian Bamford for further information and to make a booking for the classes.

16. NEW ADDITIONS TO THE JOHN D. HUGHES COLLECTION

On 12 January this year Bee-Ling Khor from Malaysia and Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Member Stuart Amoore donated 29 Buddha Dhamma books to the John D. Hughes Collection.

Many of the books are in multiple copies. Some of the titles include: The Man Who Called Himself Tathagata by Sayadaw U Silananda; A Simple Guide to Life by Robert Bogoda; and The Brahma in Your Home by Egerton C. Baptist.

Mrs. Vivien Tsang has donated 10 copies of the book entitled Sweet Reminiscence. Sweet Reminiscence is a good example of writing suitable for English as a second language readers as the use of language is clear and precise.

17. OUR WEBSITES

We welcome you to take a tour of our websites at the following Internet addresses:

www.bdcu.org.au

www.bdcublessings.one.net.au

www.skybusiness.com/j.d.hughes

www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap

www.companyontheweb.com/buddhatext

www.johnhughes.citysearch.com.au

All our websites are hyper linked and contain much Buddha Dhamma material.

You can browse through our multimedia website at www.bdcublessings.one.net.au, which contains transcripts of our weekly ‘Buddhist Hour’ broadcasts, beautiful images, a video and chanting.

You can also find our websites through the National Library of Australia website at www.nla.gov.au/libraries

18. SHARING OF MERIT

May those who see and hear of our good deeds all bring forth the heart of understanding and live the teachings for the rest of this life.

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

MAY ALL BEINGS BE WELL AND HAPPY

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