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THE BROOKING STREET BUGLE
Issue No. 63 (New Series)
ISSN 1321 -1463

Publication Date: 30 July 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

The Purpose of this Internal Publication

The purpose of this internal publication is to:

1. Advise Members and others of coming events

2. Monitor and report on all current activities of each of our Task Units at our Centre

3. Improve our Fundraising initiatives

4. Advise interested parties of our philosophy and practice, to improve our customer relations

5. Publish key speeches and reports on our progress

6. Show concrete examples of our five styles of cultivation

7. Provide accurate information to our website for free distribution

8. Provide advice of Occupational Health and Safety

9. To provide a basis for, a role model of modern Buddhist organisation methods for those interested in it.

10. To declare and celebrate milestones in our globalisation practice

The Brooking Steet Bugle is for free distribution. There are two editions of this publication. One is text only in paper form. The second is illustrated with colour photographs and can be found on our website, www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap. The registered business name "Brooking Stret Bugle ON Line" number B1581602A is owned by the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Certificate of Registration of Business Name for "Brooking Street Bugle On Line", was issued by Consumer and Business Affairs Victoria at 3:45pm on Thursday 12 July 2001, under the Business Names Act 1962 (Victoria). The copyright of both editions is held by the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Copies of either edition may be used for free distribution.

We are pleased that we can advise our interstate and overseas Members and friends in a cost efficient manner, of how we do things around here.

INDEX

1. Glossary

2. Coming Events

3. Sangha News

4. Keynote Opportunities

5. Information Technology News

6. Fundraising Appeals and Special Projects

7. John D. Hughes’ News

8. Current Research and Development Interests

9. Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)

10. Corporate Governance & Reporting (CGR)

11. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)

12. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)

13. Members’ News

14. General Funds Appeal

15. Sharing of Merit

16. Photographs

1. GLOSSARY

Surangama - The Surangama Sutra is considered to be the most important as it reveals the law of causality relating to both delusion and enlightenment and teaches the methods of practice and realisation. (The Supreme Virtue and Merits of Shurangama Mantra; The Surangama Sutra translated by Luk, 1966)

Vajradhara - The source of all secret mantra. He is the same nature as Buddha Shakyamuni but displays a different aspect (enjoyment body). (Gyatso, Guide to Dakini Land, 1991)

Kinkara - Father and Mother Lord of the Charnel Grounds. (Gyatso, 1991)

2. COMING EVENTS

30-07-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
31-07-01	Prajna Paramita Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
02-08-01	Julian Bamford's 44th Birth Anniversary
05-08-01	Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast	11:00am-midday
06-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
07-08-01	Prajna Paramita Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
07-08-01	Evelin Halls' 40th Birth Anniversary
10-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
11-08-01	Annual General Meeting	2:00pm
12-08-01	Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast	11:00am-midday
13-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
14-08-01	Prajna Paramita Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
17-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
19-08-01	Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast	11:00am-midday
20-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
21-08-01	Prajna Paramita Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
24-08-01	Dhamma Teaching by John D. Hughes	7.30pm-8.30pm
31-08-01	General Meeting	8:30pm
07-09-01	Five Day Bhavana Course commences	All Day
08-09-01	Supreme Virtues and Merits of Surangama Mantra conducted by Francisco So	9:30am-11:30am
08-09-01	Supreme Virtues and Merits of Surangama Mantra conducted by Francisco So	1:30pm-4:00pm
09-09-01	Founder's Day
11-09-01	Five Day Bhavana Course concludes	All Day
27-12-01	Five Day Bhavana Course commences	All Day
31-12-01	Five Day Bhavana Course concludes	All Day

3. SANGHA NEWS

Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro (Lim Mony) visit to our Centre

Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro and Venerable Samit-Ly visited our Centre on Friday 27 July 2001 for evening meditation. Our Teacher, John D. Hughes and Members, Anita Svensson, Jocelyn Hughes, Vanessa Macleod, Frank Carter, Phillip Svensson, Pam Adkins, Max Svensson, Joel Svensson, Lenore Hamilton, Rodney Johnson and Lisa Nelson were blessed with a Dhamma Teaching and to meditate with the two Venerables in our Hall of Assembly for one hour.

Max Svensson's, aged 9, request to Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro to be his preceptor when he becomes a Monk at the age of 18 was accepted.

We thank Jocelyn Hughes and Vanessa Macleod for driving the Venerables to our Centre and we thank Frank Carter for driving the Venerables back to their Temple.

Photographs of the Monks, Monk to be and laypersons present were printed on A4 paper and given to the Monk. These are on our website.

In the near future, we intend to request to Venerable Dhammadaro to become a patron of our Centre.

Thank you Venerable Dhammadaro (Lim Mony) for the many blessings you bring to our Centre.

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

Members visit Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro in NSW

On Sunday 22 July, Julian Bamford, Vincenzo Cavuoto and Jan Bennett drove to Sydney and stayed at the Cambodian Temple Wat Dhamma Sameaky, 1 Stuart Street, Canley Vale (near Cabramatta, Sydney NSW). The Venerable Sangha at this Temple are Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro and Venerable Somsothon.

When Julian Bamford and Jan Bennett took robes in January 2000 Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro was their preceptor.

The Members gave Dhamma Dana to Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro in the form of a carved wooden Cambodian Arahant image as a gift from our Teacher, John D. Hughes. Three copies of the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review and Brooking Street Bugle Issue 62 were also presented to the Venerable.

On Monday 23 July Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro travelled with the three Members back to Melbourne, to stay for a few days at Wat Dhammaram at 53 Balmoral Street, Springvale, Victoria.

During the drive back to Melbourne, the Venerable gave Dhamma talks to the Members during two rest breaks. We thank the Venerable for his kindness in Teaching us the Dhamma.

We thank our Teacher for providing this meritorious opportunity to practise Dhamma Dana.

Photographs of the visit are published online in this issue of the Brooking Street Bugle.

“The Supreme Virtues and Merits of Surangama Mantra” conducted by Francisco So

On Saturday 8 September 2001 Francisco So will conduct a puja titled "The Supreme Virtues and Merits of Surangama Mantra". The puja will commence at 9.30am to 11.30am and then again from 1.30 pm to 4.00pm. Please bring puja cakes and suitable offerings.

This is the day before Founder’s Day- 9 September 2001 when our Teacher becomes 71 years.

4. KEYNOTE OPPORTUNITIES

Flower Offerings

Many blessings come with the offering of flowers. The ten minor blessings arising for the offering of flowers are described in the texts.

At our Centre Members make much merit offering flowers over four seasons to many beings. Flower offerings are made daily on many of the Centre’s altars.

Speed Reading Training Recommended

Our Teacher, recommends all Members undertake our Speed Reading Course. This is provided free of charge to Members. Speed reading class times can be made by appointment with Lisa Nelson.

Lisa Nelson has written a report called Speed Read to Win, Read Faster to Reach Your Goals in Record Time on the progress of Members undertaking the Speed Reading Classes. This file can be read on the LAN file reference: I:/cgr/sreadrp

5. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS

MLBD Newsletter, a monthly of Indological Bibliography, Available Online

We recently received the MLBD newsletter Volume XXIII No. 5, May 2001, of Indological Bibliography produced by Motilal Banarsidass of Delhi, India. Our Teacher has been delighted to read the MLBD newsletter of Indological Bibliography.

This journal is available on their website at: www.mlbd.com

We printed a section of their latest issue Vol. XXIII No. 7 July 2001 from their website this week.

This splendid organisation has been operating for 98 years and was founded in 1903.

They have preserved quality scholastic writing without compromise through these changing times.

Their newsletters fill the gaps in titles for our Buddhist Library. This grand book seller can provide the missing titles.

Interested readers can experience the delight of reading critical reviews of great works by visiting the site at: www.mlbd.com

You can purchase Buddha Dhamma books from the MLBD website. To preserve our Buddhist library for 500 years, you may assist us by donating Buddha Dhamma books to our Library.

Instructions for printing MLBD Newsletter at our Centre

MLBD is an Indian bookseller of Indian religious books.

The newsletter may come by e-mail or need to be downloaded from www.mlbd.com.

Either way the file will come as a ZIP file from which a PDF will need to be extracted.

This PDF contains unusual fonts and will not be able to be printed from the Wang Laser printer connected to PC4.

Copy the PDF file to a floppy and open the file on PC7. This PDF file can then be printed to the Laserjet III connected to PC7 or PC1. Upon loading there may occur an error message that one of the fonts is unable to be loaded.

If this occurs check the printed document. The reverse printing on the front page containing the volume number may not print properly. This is acceptable.

CD Rom Backups

On Sunday July 22, 2001, Rodney Johnson showed Evelin Halls how to burn data onto CD ROMs.

They burned one CD ROM disk containing website backups, a John D. Hughes photo album, WFB photos and other jpg images as well as the master jpg files from PC4.

Also, the software to use the Zip drive was installed on PC5A.

6. FUNDRAISING APPEALS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

Buddha Dhyana Dana Review

Fundraising has commenced for the printing and mailing of Buddha Dhyana Dana Review V11N1. This review will be produced during the month of August. Please place your donation for this Dhamma Dana in the Dana box in the Hall of Assembly.

A4 Paper Fundraiser

The A4 paper purchased last year from our A4 Paper Fundraiser is nearly finished.

In order to maintain a reliable supply of A4 paper for the year ahead we need to raise $700. This money will allow us to purchase a minimum of 125 reams of A4.

This way of purchasing our paper was very successful for us as we always had paper available and we saved money by purchasing at a discount price.

Members are requested to contribute to ensure we achieve this fundraising target.

Rose Bush Sales Fundraiser

MEMBERS’ DISCOUNT

Members will be given 4 rose bushes of their choice of colour from the PBR category. Members can also purchase at a 50% discount additional roses from the colours which do not have copyrights.

The discounted price is $5.00 per rose bush including gst.

Public sales

Public sales will commence ON Friday 3 august 2001.

Sales can be made to the public for $10.00 per rose bush including gst.

There is a bulk purchase discount. Purchases of 100 rose bushes will be given 8 additional rose bushes for free.

Frank Carter is delegating the role of the orders for the roses and frank carter is in charge of delivery of the roses.

Fundraising Collection of Beverage Costs

Members put in 20 cents per drink, there is no charge for Monks or the Teacher.

From the 9 to the 22 July 2001, these fundraising jars brought in a total of $33.20. Milk was purchased for $15.80.

This has been noted by the Treasurer. If you use this money to buy milk please place the receipt in the jar. State on the receipt that the money was from the jar. If you wish to donate milk, please place a receipt in the jar with your name on the receipt stating that this is a donation.

7. JOHN D. HUGHES NEWS

John D. Hughes’ long life is improving because he spends much time in a yidam form. The reason for this is that many Members support and help his yidam and her three children. Members also attend to the Centre.

John D. Hughes wishes to thank the persons who help him and his students greatly by washing clothes, cooking meals, washing dishes and other tasks that contribute to the upkeep of our Centre.

8. CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTERESTS

New Reading Room

In the library section of our new reading room the full Encyclopedia Britannica and Year Books will be on display, the full 20 Volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, 30 Volumes of the Japanese National Treasure plus Reference Dictionaries in many languages. More reference books will follow.

CGR Database

We are building a new CGR database with Microsoft Access 97 to save time and improve performance and to keep an accurate record of our data. We are going to bring all address and mailing lists into one CGR database.

We can establish as many specified mailing lists and address databases as we like, but we really only want those we need. We want to enter an address only once with a choice given whether we want to put the address onto a mailing list, and if so, which one.

Work is in progress to find out what the correct mailing lists will be.

Annual President’s Report, including Return On Investment (ROI)

The President’s report will report a 25.3% ROI this year.

The previous years ROI was 47.8% for 2000 and 43.8 for 1999.

Return on Investment is the Income plus Increase in Net Assets divided by Net Assets at the start of the year. Although, the ROI for 2001 is less than the previous 2 years, 25.3% is an excellent return on investment. As our net assets increase it becomes more difficult to achieve such high return on investment.

Julian Bamford B.A. App. Rec., our President is currently researching extra material for inclusion in the Annual President’s report.

Donation of Chemicals to John D. Hughes

On Monday 23 July 2001, Vince Cavuoto, Julian Bamford and Jan Bennett returned from Sydney with seven boxes of mixed chemicals from Tech Traders. This company, located in Artarmon, Nth Sydney, buys and sells second hand scientific equipment.

The chemicals are to be used in the scientific laboratory for the geology museum. The manager of Tech Traders, Petros, has said he will contact us again when more chemicals become available.

The two day return trip to Sydney, took 29.5 hours driving over 1900 kilometres. Thank you to Vincenzo Cavuoto for supplying his van for this important journey, and to Frank Carter for arranging for the collection of the chemicals.

Several of contents of the boxes were cleaned and stored in Suite 4. Three boxes stored in Suite Ten remain to be processed.

9. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY NEWS (OH&S)

New Smoke Detectors

New smoke detectors have been fitted in (i) Fragrance Corner; (ii) Suite 10; and (iii) Suite 10A. New batteries have been installed in all smoke detectors.

First Aid Training

Anita Svensson Registered Nurse Division 1 is available to provide first aid training to Members on Saturday mornings from 9.30 am to 10.30 am and Tuesday evenings after Prajna Paramitta Teachings.

10. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & REPORTING (CGR)

Colour Code: Red

CGR Manager: Anita Svensson

CGR Task Unit Members: Pam Adkins, Julian Bamford, Tim Browning, Frank Carter, Leanne Eames, Evelin Halls, Lenore Hamilton, Isabella Hobbs, Clara Iaquinto, Rodney Johnson, Lisa Nelson, Rilla Oellien, Lainie Smallwood and Amber Svensson

CGR Task Unit Responsibilities: To handle correspondence, to adhere to legal requirements of corporate affairs, accounts, to provide a Profit and Loss Activity Statement on a quarterly basis, to arrange General meetings and maintain statutory minutes for these meetings, Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S); to organise attendants for staffing the Centre; to schedule events for our Teacher, to communicate with government departments, Federal, State and Local, to structure new databases and train persons to maintain them, to monitor and adhere to occupational health and safety (OH&S) policy, to provide a first aid facility, to organise for GST to be paid on time and supply Australian Tax Office with Business Activity Statement on time, to provide timely managerial information to ensure profits are made, to train personal to learn to operate CGR functions, to arrange for the audit of accounts at a professional level to meet the Statutory requirements of the Gaming Commission of N.S.W. and refreshment supply, to fund and organise Dana for the Sangha visiting the Centre, to liaison with neighbors to create goodwill and to liaison with local newspapers to advise of upcoming events.

Annual General Meeting

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE BUDDHIST DISCUSSION CENTRE (UPWEY) LTD.

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Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of all Members which will take place on Saturday, 11 August 2001 at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey, 3158 at 2.00 p.m.

A G E N D A

1. Members Present

2. Apologies

3. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting.

4. President’s Address

5. Financial Statement

6. Election of Directors

7. Election of Office Bearers

8. General Business

9. Date of Next Annual General Meeting

10. Meeting Closed

* ALL MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO BE PRESENT

Nominations for office bearers

The following nominations will be voted at the Annual General Meeting of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Limited to be held on 11 August 2001 at 2.00 pm.

Directors of the Centre: Julian Bamford

Anita Svensson

Evelin Halls

Office Bearers:

President: Julian Bamford

Treasurer: Pam Adkins

Secretary: Anita Svensson

Vice Presidents:

International Dhamma Activities: John D. Hughes

Corporate Governance & Reporting: Anita Svensson

Local Area Planning & Asset Management: Frank Carter

Joint Vice Presidents:

International Dhamma Activities: Julian Bamford

International Dhamma Activities: Vanessa MacLeod

Corporate Governance & Reporting: Lisa Nelson

Special Projects:

Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review: John D. Hughes

Assistant Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review: Pennie White

Manager Enterprise Technology: Evelin Halls

International Liaison Officer & Information Officer: Vanessa MacLeod

Manager Occupational Health & Safety: Anita Svensson

Joint Manager Occupational Health & Safety: Frank Carter

Minutes of General Meeting

The Minutes of General Meeting held on Sunday 29 July 2001 at 2.00pm are as follows:

MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE BUDDHIST DISCUSSION CENTRE (UPWEY) LTD. HELD AT 33 BROOKING STREET, UPWEY,

VICTORIA 3158

A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488 on Sunday 29 July 2001

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MEMBERS PRESENT: John D. Hughes, Anita Svensson, Lisa Nelson, Jocelyn Hughes, Pam Adkins, Julie O’Donnell, Rodney Johnson, Pennie White, Amber Svensson.

MINUTE SEC: Lisa Nelson

MEETING OPENED: 2.15pm

CHAIRPERSON: Jocelyn Hughes

APOLOGIES: Julian Bamford, Vanessa Macleod, Brendan Hall, Evelin Halls

MOTION: That the minutes of the General Meeting held on 9 July 2001 as read be confirmed.

MOVED: Anita Svensson SEC: Lisa Nelson CARRIED

MOTION: That the Incoming Correspondence Entered Report from 7 June 2001 to 29 July 2001 as tabled be accepted.

MOVED: Anita Svensson SEC: Lisa Nelson CARRIED

MOTION: That the Outgoing Correspondence Entered Report from 7 June 2001 to 29 July 2001 as tabled be accepted.

MOVED: Anita Svensson SEC: Lisa Nelson CARRIED

MOTION: That the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2001 as distributed be received.

MOVED: Pam Adkins SEC: Anita Svensson CARRIED

MOTION : That the Transaction Detail by Account report April through June 2001 as tabled be accepted.

MOVED : Pam Adkins SEC: Anita Svensson CARRIED

MOTION: That the next General Meeting be held on Friday 31 August 2001 at 8.30pm.

MOVED: Anita Svensson SEC: Lisa Nelson CARRIED

MEETING CLOSED: 2.44pm

Master Do List

This Do-List applies to all task unit Members. The Master Do List commencing 21 July 2001 has 28 AAAA (4A) priorities; 17 AAA (3A) priorities; 11 AA (2A) priorities and 32 A (1A) priorities.

Added Company Signatory

Frank Carter has been added as a signatory on our Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd bank account.

We have applied for a company credit card from American Express which will be useful for on-line payment of our web-site fees and ISP account. This card is in the name "Ch'an Academy" because the full company name exceeds the number of characters available on the card. The card will have one authorised company person who can use the card. This will be Frank Carter.

Accounts Project

Member Pam Adkins has been preparing the BDC(U) Ltd.’s annual financial statements using an off site software program called Solution 6 for the last five years. The accounts need to be transferred to Excel format as soon as possible as this is the software we will be using in the future.

11. INTERNATIONAL DHAMMA ACTIVITIES (IDA)

Colour Code: Yellow

IDA Manager: John D. Hughes

IDA Vice-President: John D. Hughes,

IDA Joint Vice President: Julian Bamford

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

IDA Task Unit Responsibilities: to maintain WFB liaison; to arrange Dhamma and Prajnaparamita Teachings, chanting, pujas, translations; to maintain and preserve the John D. Hughes Collection; to organise audio and video recording of teachings and events; to develop and maintain the Centre’s IT systems, data warehouse, LAN and web sites; to train Members to become webmasters; to develop e-commerce; to produce, edit, publish and distribute the BDDR and BSB; to write and broadcast “Buddhist Hour” Hillside radio scripts; to organise and teach Ch’an classes.

Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast

To view previous Buddhist Hour radio scripts please visit our website at www.bdcublessings.net.au/radio.html.

The weekly “Buddhist Hour” radio broadcasts can be heard at 11.00am Sundays on Hillside Radio 87.6FM and 88.0FM and 1620 AM in Victoria, Australia.

Ch’an Academy Classes

Please contact Julian Bamford on 0400-267-330 for further information or to make a booking for all Ch’an Academy classes.

Our Websites

www.bdcu.org.au

www.bdcublessings.net.au

www.skybusiness.com/j.d.hughes

www.companyontheweb.com/buddhamap

www.companyontheweb.com/buddhatext

www.johnhughes.citysearch.com.au

www.buyresolved.com.au

www.bddronline.net.au

12. LOCAL AREA PLANNING & ASSET MANAGEMENT (LAPAM)

Colour Code: Green

LAPAM Manager: Frank Carter

LAPAM Task Unit Members: Stuart Amoore, Julian Bamford, Jan Bennett, Frank Carter, Vince Cavuoto, Brendan Hall, Lenore Hamilton, Isabella Hobbs, David Igracki, Leila Lamers, Lisa Nelson and Philip Svensson.

The LAPAM Task Unit Responsibilities: To maintain and develop the buildings and gardens of the Centre; to undertake new construction works; to refurbish the Centre’s buildings; and to look after equipment and supplies.

Sariputta Room

We have obtained a 1000 gallon water tank to complete the storm water drainage system of the Sariputta Room. Once installed we will arrange for the final inspection certificate from the Shire building inspector.

Electricity connection to Suite 10, Suite 10A and Suite 11

We recently obtained a quote from the electrician to have electricity connected to Suite 10, Suite 10A and Suite 11. This will increase the usefulness and accessibility of these buildings

substantially.

The price quoted was $1490 inc. GST. We have accepted this quote and will pay for the connection with $1000 being donated by Rilla Oellien and $500 from initial sales of roses bushes.

The quote is based on us digging all the trenches for the cable ourselves.

In order that Members in the future will not dig into this cable and electrocute themselves the following safety system will be installed.

The electrical cable is contained in a plastic conduit and runs at a depth of 450mm below the surface. At 250mm below the surface above the electrical cable we will run a second plastic conduit which is empty.

Persons who dig in this location in the future will find the upper conduit and stop digging in this spot recognising it is the route of the electrical cable. Even if they damaged the upper conduit they would not be harmed.

The main channel is dug.

The digging work will be completed next weekend on the side extensions. Members are requested to please help.

Fire Wood

In order that sufficient supply of split fire wood is maintained Members are requested to split some wood every week.

Rodney Johnson has been taught how to use a chain saw.

Stationery Supplies

A three year BDC(U) Ltd. plan for replenishment of stationery supplies has been drawn up by Lisa Nelson and Julian Bamford. Julian Bamford purchased a two month supply of needed stationery from Officeworks on Sunday 22 July 2001. We will spend up to $200 on the two month supplies.

We will track usage of stationery over the two month period and adjust the three year plan accordingly.

Kitchen Refurbished

During the second half of July 2001 the rear kitchen archway was re-shaped with plasterboard and finished with patching plaster and sanding. The eastern kitchen wall was re-surfaced with joint finish and patching plaster. Both were painted in Pink Granite acrylic paint on the 29 July 2001. This work was done by Member Rodney Johnson. The remaining kitchen walls will be re-surfaced and re-painted.

13. MEMBERS’ NEWS

Member Lisa Nelson is currently researching into mature age entry for Science University courses in 2002.

Member Julie O’Donnell has painted the skin, lips and fingernails of protector Mogog and the fingernails of protector Mog.

Member Julie O’Donnell has nearly completed painting a Thanka of Vajrayogini on canvas. The Thanka also contains Vajra dhara and Kinkara.

14. GENERAL FUNDS APPEAL

Gifts are not tax deductible.

15. SHARING OF MERIT

We regularly share merit with the local deities. They help us on all our projects.

Diffusion of Metta or Loving Kindness:

Sabbe Satta;

(May all sentient beings),

Avera Hontu;

(Be free from enmity),

Abyapajjha hontu;

(Be free from ill will ),

Anigha hontu;

( Be free from suffering ),

Sukhi attanam pariharantu;

(Live a happy life ).

MAY ALL BEINGS BE WELL AND HAPPY

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

Photographs of Members visit to Venerable Ajarn Dhammadaro in NSW

Sitting with Venerable Dhammadaro at Wat Dhamma Sameaky are our Members Jan Bennett (left) and Julian Bamford (right)

In front of the main alter at Cambodian Temple Wat Dhamma Sameaky are Venerable Ajahn Dhammadaro with Jan Bennett and Vincenzo Cavuoto

Pictured with Venerable Ajahn Dhammadaro are Julian Bamford and Vincenzo Cavuoto

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