Brooking Street Bugle Issue No. 81 new series, 18 October 2002

THE BROOKING STREET BUGLE
Issue No. 81 (New Series)
ISSN 1321 - 1463

Publication Date: 18 October 2002

Published and Printed by:

Chan Academy Australia

Chan Academy is a registered trading name of
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
Associated Institute of the World Buddhist University

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

Web sites

www.bdcu.org.au
www.bddronline.net.au
www.bdcublessings.net.au
www.bsbonline.com.au
www.buyresolved.com.au

Editor: John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem., T.T.T.C., GDAIE
Assistant Editors: Pennie White, B.A., Dip.Ed., Evelin Halls, Dip. For. Lang. Corres.

Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Disclaimer

As we, the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd., do not control the actions of our service providers from time to time, make no warranty as to the continuous operation of our web site(s). Also, we make no assertion as to the veracity of any of the information included in any of the links with our web sites, or an other source accessed through our web site(s).

Accordingly, we accept no liability to any user or subsequent third party, either expressed or implied, whether or not caused by error or omission on either our part, and member, employee or other person associated with the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.

May You Be Well and Happy.

The Purposes of this Publication

The purposes of this publication are to:

Inform Members and others of coming events.

Report on monitoring of current activities and policies.

Help Members and friends understand the benefits of using technology in our organisation for Teaching Buddha Dhamma.

Write in a style recognisable by those who use English as a second language.

Provide glossaries and definitions for key terms used for teaching Buddha Dhamma.

Improve, report and develop cash generating activities to promote Buddha Dhamma.

Show examples of Buddha Dhamma education within our five styles of cultivation in action.

Provide timely advice on Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S).

Declare, celebrate and record scheduled Buddhist educational events.

Provide accurate information via our web site on how we educate on Buddha Dhamma legally in Victoria, Australia.

Provide opportunities for Buddha Dhamma activities and ceremonies. Assist our globalisation of Buddha Dhamma education policy.

Provide text for our online version of the Brooking Street Bugle at www.bsbonline.com.au

Index

1. Glossary
2. Sangha News
3. Coming Events
4. Company Structure
5. Keynote Opportunities
6. Appeals and Special Projects
7. Current Research and Development Interests
8. John D. Hughes’ News
9. Information Technology News
10. Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)
11. Corporate Governance & Reporting (CGR)
12. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)
13. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)
14. Members’ News
15. Funds Appeal
16. Photographs
17. Transferring of Merit

Copyright Provisions

The Brooking Street Bugle is for free distribution. It contains Buddha Dhamma material and is provided for the purposes of research and study. It is also published online with colour photographs at www.bsbonline.com.au. Brooking Street Bugle On Line is a registered Business Name in the state of Victoria. Permission is given to make printouts of this publication for FREE DISTRIBUTION ONLY with acknowledgements of the source, Australian Company Number ACN., Australian Business Number ABN. and publication address. Please keep it in a clean place.

"The gift of Dhamma excels all other gifts".

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1. Glossary

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2. Sangha News

Abhidhamma Classes

On 25 June 2002 our Teacher commenced teaching Abhidhamma each week on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm.

The classes are taught by resident practitioners John D. Hughes, Anita Hughes and Members Pennie White and Evelin Halls.

Classes will run for 9 years.

There are 41 000 slokas of Abhidhamma in the Pali Tipitika and this makes it the largest section of the 3 baskets.

In Myanamar the Venerable Bhaddanta Narada Mahathera (Aggamahapandita) was well known as the original Patthana Master.

Sao Htun Hmat Win M.A., A.M., S.R.F., Maha Saddhamma jotikadhaja, Adviser to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Union of Myanamar, studied in 1952 under the Venerable Bhaddanta Narada Mahathera (Aggamahapandita).

Sao Htun Hmat Win and Professor Thein Nyunt commenced translating the Venerable Narada’s writings on Abhidhamma. These were not completed.

The Venerable Narada prophesied that “an able scholar will emerge to accomplish the noble task of presenting Abhidhamma in English to the world.”

The novel and authentic treatise entitled “The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma” by Dr. Mehm Tin Mon resulted.

Dr. Tin Mon received a Masters and Doctorate Degree in Chemistry and then served his country for several years as a Professor of Chemistry. His approach to Abhidhamma is very scientific as well as artistic.

His courses on Abhidhamma drew large crowds as he had the ability to compare Abhidhamma with science as well as with western philosophy making the subject interesting and stimulating.

He emphasised that the teachings of Lord Buddha in Abhidhamma are very scientific.

Abhidhamma or ultimate science surpasses all other historical, philosophical and religious science.

This treatise is really a new version of the Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy after the design of the well-known book entitled “The Abhidhammattha Sangaha - The Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy” written by U Shwe Zan Aung and published by the London Pali Text society in 1910.

Class 1, in this series copies the ‘Table of Content’ of “The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma” to allow students to become familiar with the Pali words.

The introduction states: “ What is known as Abhidhamma is not the province nor the sphere of a disciple; it is the province, the sphere of the Buddhas (Omniscient Ones).”

Class 2 on 2 July 2002 put forth arguments to dispel the views 1. that the Abhidhamma was not expounded by the Buddha 2. that it was a later edition and 3. It was non-existent during the time of the Buddha.

Although Abhidhamma has been flourishing in Burma for a long time, very few were interested in Patthana because there were no easy methods available for its understanding. In fact Patthana was almost lost into oblivion.

May all our readers, after having made a proper study of Patthana overcome greed, hate and ignorance to understand what is path to fruition.

Class 3 on 9 July 2002 drew attention to the congregation of over 38,000 Devas and Devattas from the Heaven of the Thirty -Three whom had come to hear these teachings, to the human Members of our Centre.

The paper “Examination of Training Issues at our Centre for the next 9 years was studied and Members were advised to study the 100 classifications of the Dewy Decimal system. The study of this paper was extended into the next Class, No 4 on 16 July 2002. This paper can be accessed Volume 12 No 2 at www.bddronline.net.au

Class 5 on 23 July 2002 studied two papers : “Preparation and review of merit needed by participants for Abhidhamma Teachings at our Centre 2002 to 2011 CE.” and “ Tactics for making persons aware of kammic debt’ both papers are available on Volume 12 No. 2 at www.bddronline.net.au

Class 6 on 30 July 2002 gave a description of the Maha-kusala cittas available in this issue (Volume 12 No. 4). This issue also includes the papers for Class 7 to Class 11.

We will continue to document weekly lessons for the next nine years providing a systematised approach to Abhidhamma.

We invite our readers to contribute to these writings and we will publish their writings on our Buddha Dhyana Dana Review on line newsletter.

Our students are enjoying these classes and maturing under these teachings.

May all beings be well and happy.

Most Venerable Phra Acharn Mun Bhuridatta Thera biography

The biography of the Most Venerable Phra Acharn Mun Bhuridatta Thera is uploaded on the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online Volume 12 No. 7 at URLs http://www.bddronline.net.au/bddr12no7/bddr12no7.html and http://www.bdcu.org.au/BDDR/bddr12no7/bddr12no7.html

Surangama Puja

Francisco So will conduct a Surangama Puja on Tuesday 5 November 2002 (Melbourne Cup Day) at the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd., 33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria, 3158, Australia.

Members attending this Puja are requested to bring flowers, round fruit, round cakes and biscuits as offerings.

Ordination of 400,000 Heavenly Monks

On Sunday 26 October 2002, 400,000 Heavenly Devas were ordained as Monks.

In preparation we printed 2000 sheets, each with 20 images of Monks were printed.

By the authority of the Abbott, John D. Hughes, Chan Academy Australia, 237 sheets picturing 4,740 images, were sealed by applying 22 carat gold paint with the Abbot's Conch Shell seal. Each image represented 10 Monks. This totalled 47,400 Monks.

We will be completing the certification process over the next coming weeks.

Flowers and 44 bags of basmati rice were offered to the heavenly Monks, totalling 1849 kilograms of rice. (36 x 5kg, 3 x 2kg, 4 x 1kg and 1 x 3kg approximately)

Thank you to all the Heavenly Sangha, the Devas and Devatas, who attended and blessed this special event.

Thank you to John D. Hughes and Anita M. Hughes for preparing and carrying out the ordination.

Thank you to Anita Hughes, Julie O'Donnell and Amber Svensson for sewing the two Monks robes.

Thank you to all Members who participated: Julian Bamford, Frank Carter, Evelin Halls, Julie O'Donnell, Rilla Pargeter, Pennie White, Amber Svensson, Max Svensson.

Thank you to Pennie White, Amber Svensson and Julian Bamford for recording the event with the digital camera.

This is as auspicious day as it is the first day of daylight saving in Victoria for the 2002/2003 summer period.

Kathina Ceremony at Sakyamuni Buddha Vihara, Berwick

On Saturday 26 October 2002, Frank Carter, Lisa Nelson and Evelin Halls attended the Kathina Ceremony at the Sakyamuni Buddha Vihara, Berwick.

There were 18 Monks present at the Ceremony.

Photographs of the Ceremony have been loaded to the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online at www.bddronline.net.au Volume 12 Number 6.

The event will be shown on Community TV, Collins St, Channel 31. Mr Tilak Wijewardene filmed the ceremony. His address is 34, Third Street, Parkdale, 3194, Victoria, Australia. Telephone and Fax: (03)9580 3169.

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3. Coming Events

Please Note: Buddha Dhamma Chanting in Pali and English is held at our Centre every morning at 6:30am and evening at 8:30pm.

03 November 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

05 November 2002 Buddha Chanting New Moon

05 November 2002 Abhidhamma Class 20, 7.30pm-8.30pm

05 November 2002 Surangama Puja taught by visiting teacher Master Francisco So

10 November 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

12 November 2002 Buddha Chanting First Quarter

12 November 2002 Abhidhamma Class 21, 7.30pm-8.30pm

17 November 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

19 November 2002 Abhidhamma Class 22, 7.30pm-8.30pm

20 November 2002 Buddha Chanting Full Moon

23 November 2002 Sumi-e Class taught by Master Andre Sollier 10.00am-3.00pm

24 November 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

24 November 2002 Chan Class taught by Anita Hughes under the guidance of Master John D. Hughes 1.00pm-4.00pm

26 November 2002 Abhidhamma Class 23, 7.30pm-8.30pm

28 November 2002 Buddha Chanting Last Quarter

December 2002

01 December 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

03 December 2002 Abhidhamma Class 24, 7.30pm-8.30pm

04 December 2002 Buddha Chanting New Moon

08 December 2002 Members depart for World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference in Malaysia

08 December 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

09 December 2002 World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference

10 December 2002 Abhidhamma Class 25, 7.30pm-8.30pm

10 December 2002 World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference

11 December 2002 World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference

12 December 2002 World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference

12 December 2002 Buddha Chanting First Quarter

13 December 2002 World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference

13 December 2002 Members depart from Malaysia

14 December 2002 Sumi-e Class taught by Master Andre Sollier 10.00am-3.00pm

15 December 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

17 December 2002 Abhidhamma Class 26, 7.30pm-8.30pm

20 December 2002 Buddha Chanting Full Moon

22 December 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

24 December 2002 Abhidhamma Class 27, 7.30pm-8.30pm

27 December 2002 Buddha Chanting Last Quarter

27 December 2002 Five Day Bhavana Course 1st day All Day

28 December 2002 Five Day Bhavana Course 2nd day All Day

29 December 2002 Five Day Bhavana Course 3rd day All Day

29 December 2002 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 11.00am-12.00pm

29 December 2002 Chan Class taught by Anita Hughes under the guidance of Master John D. Hughes 1.00pm-4.00pm

30 December 2002 Five Day Bhavana Course 4th day All Day

31 December 2002 Abhidhamma Class 28, 7.30pm-8.30pm

31 December 2002 Five Day Bhavana Course 5th day All Day

January 2003

01 January 2003 Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast 12.00am-1.00am

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4. Company Structure

The Company operates under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Company Code in accordance with our Articles of Association and Memorandum of Association.

The following persons have been elected as Office Bearers for the next year at our Annual General meeting held 10 August 2002.

Resident Practitioners

John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Anita Hughes R.N.Div.1

Directors of the Centre

Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.

Evelin Halls Dip. Foreign Language Correspondence

Peter Boswell CPA

Office Bearers

President Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.

Treasurer Pam Adkins B.Bus. Ass.Dip.Bus

Secretary Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

Vice Presidents

International Dhamma Activities

Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

Corporate Governance & Reporting

Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.

Local Area Planning & Asset Management

Frank Carter B.Ec.

The Directors, Office Bearers and Vice Presidents are responsible to a General Committee comprising all financial Members of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.

Joint Librarians John D. Hughes and Anita Hughes.

Assistant Librarian Julie O’Donnell

Chief Information Officer

Leanne Eames B.A., M.A.

Financial Controller

Peter Boswell CPA

Manager Occupational Health & Safety

Anita Hughes R.N.Div1

Frank Carter B.Ec.

Manager Enterprise Technology

Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.

IT Technical Support

Kamfatt Lin B.Sc (Eng), MCP, CNA, MCSE, MCDBA

IT Development Engineer

John Watson Senior CTS Engineer

Programmer

IT Software Developer

Arthur Lipscombe

Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review

John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Assistant Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review

Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

Executive Producer Buddhist Hour Broadcast

Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

Program Producer/Presenter Buddhist Hour Broadcast

Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec

Editor Brooking Street Bugle

John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem., T.T.T.C. GDAIE and Anita

Hughes Reg. Nurse Div 1.

Assistant Editor Brooking Street Bugle

Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

Editors Longhair Australia News

John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.

Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.

Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.

Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.

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5. Keynote Opportunities

Chan Academy Australia: Sumi-e Class

Chan Academy Australia, painting a better world...through

Sumi-e with Master Andre Sollier.

The November Sumi-e class has been rescheduled to Saturday 23 November, at the request of Andre Sollier.

Andre will be holding a Sumi-e painting exhibition in November 2002.

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6. Appeals and Special Projects

Making the causes for students to learn Abhidhamma

To be literate for the rest of this life and next life is essential.

What causes must we make now to have the conditions for education and learning to arise in future lives (over the next 10 years)?

In our Abhidhamma study we will use vast amounts of merit in education processes.

To be able to generate sufficient merit for the next nine years (your future life) to receive Abhidhamma education you ought to:

Offer A4 paper to the Centre
Pay for ink cartridges
Offer printed material to the Centre
Offer printed material from our websites and photographs to fellow Members

Our computers depreciate and are upgraded every 2 to 3 months. We use one cartridge every 3 weeks (4000 sheets per cartridge) at a commercial rate of approximately $55 per cartridge. Our operators’ time in writing, producing and publishing weekly Abhidhamma lessons is within a 24 hour period. The usual office overhead costs apply (heat, light, gas, and power).

Our Abhidhamma writers have literacy skill levels between 4 and 5 (higher order information processing skills). We assume our present writers in education will be able to make sufficient merit in educational processes to continue to write.

We ought to support our present writers to stay at literacy levels 4 and 5 by:

Creating, maintaining a fine environment for Members to read, write, research and learn within by upgrading our library.
Support the production of fine food for all Members.
Maintain a suitable chi flow in all areas by maintaining cleanliness of the air, not cluttering the areas and providing sufficient flower and water offerings to our two resident Practitioners, Devas and Devatas.
Financing and supporting the means of production of our educational materials. We cannot use other materials for our websites because of copyright and we cannot afford to pay royalties to authors and publishers.

We give access to our educational products on Internet at no charge, except your own equipment and printing expenses. For example, we estimate one of our average colour photographs printed on “coated high-resolution” paper from a Bitmap images costs about $8 to $10. At present we cannot afford to give too many copies of our in-house produced photographs.

It is imperative that students of Abhidhamma print and download key photographs from our website at their own expense and distribute them to others as Dana.

This will provide a sound basis for future access to such photographs for the next nine years. This is one factor needed to working towards continuity of attendance at Abhidhamma classes.

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7. Current Research and Development Interests

Our Core Business

All Members must be aware of what our core business is.

The core business of our Temple is to be white ant proof, to increase our fire proof rating and to build the new library, kitchen and dining room area.

The Temple needs to be upgraded and maintained. Upgrades and new buildings must be in accordance with the Australian Standard for buildings. All Members must know what these standards are.

Those Members who will go to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference in Malaysia must also know these standards and be able to recite them.

We will print out building plans and store them digitally on our IT systems so that everybody can have an isometric view of our buildings. Isometric means "applied to a method of projection or perspective, in which the plane of projection is equally inclined to the three principal axes of the object, so that all dimensions parallel to these axes are represented in their actual proportions..." (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1973).

Members should develop a broad view of what our core business is.

Our core business is in the loka field. Meditation is not core business.

Every Member should help to raise funds for our core business.

Temples are essential for persons to learn and practice Buddha Dhamma. Buddha Dhamma is taught at Temples and it is the task of Teachers and Students to organise plans to look after the core business and carry them out, to maintain the standards required and be fully aware of those, and to raise funds.

We will keep having a good Return On Investment (ROI). New buildings and upgrades will continue to be well planned and debt-free.

The Temple's core business is every Member's business.

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8. John D. Hughes News

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9. Information Technology News

New sponsor for website www.bdcu.org.au

This makes the cost per visitor approximately 14 cents per visit.

That is: $115 (approximately) per quarter - dependant on conversion rate at time of transaction.

The server hosting fees for our website www.bdcu.org.au are now being sponsored by Lisa Nelson.

Well done Lisa.

New Sponsor for our www.bdcublessings.net.au website

The server hosting fees for this website www.bdcublessings.net.au are now being sponsored by Pennie White.

The www.bdcublessings.net.au website has been upgraded from 50MB to 150 MB.

The monthly fees are $22.95 per month (or $25.24 including GST). The next billing date will be in the last week in December 2003.

As at 25 October the site had recorded 3229 visits, averaging 19 per week, or 82 visits per month, at a cost of 28 cents per visit.

The blessings website includes our weekly Buddhist Hour Broadcast scripts dating from 25 June 2000. As at 26 October, 2002, the site counter had recorded 1206 visits, averaging 4 visits per day, 28 per week and 121 per month. The present cost is 19 cents per visitor.

The website hosting fees are paid online with our company AMEX card.

Our website sponsors will pay their sponsor fees direct to the Chan Academy Australia two weeks prior to the account due date

New PC 15A

Kamfatt Lin has commissioned PC15A in the library for Digital Photo downloads, manipulation and burning to CD's.

Functions:

1. Burning of CD's with EasyCD Creator Software
2. Downloading digital photographs with Kodak Picture Easy 3.1 Software
3. Digital Image manipulation and storage using IRFANView
4. Downloading from and saving of data to Zip Disk with IOMEGA software and Zipdrive
5. Acrobat PDF Reader software is also loaded

The HP Scanner is yet to be connected.

Upgrade of extra 100 megabyte capacity for www.bdcublessings.net.au website

Our website www.bdcublessing.net.au has been upgraded from 50MB (Small Business Starter) to 150 MB (Business Power Account)

The website is hosted by internet company OznetOne, 97a Carrington Road, Box Hill 3128 Victoria.

The monthly fees have increased from $14.95 per month to $22.95 per month plus GST.

As at 25 October, 2002, the site had recorded 3229 visits, averaging 19 per week, or 82 visits per month, at a present cost of 28 cents per visit.

The hosting fees are charged on a quarterly basis by OznetOne and paid online with our company credit card.

We are to upgrade the capacity of our other websites.

Upgrade to PC5A

PC5A is being upgraded to a new machine, donated by Peter Boswell.

The old PC5A is to be decommissioned, with suitable hardware and or sound/graphics cards being removed for future use.

PC5A will be a dedicated PC for the John D. Hughes Collection using Organise software.

All digital images have been removed to PC15A.

We thank the Chief Deva of Learning, the Deva of the Library, the Chief Deva of Information Technology and the Deva of Transformation for their help in the process of upgrading PC5A and the commissioning of the new PC15A, both located in the library.

Kodak Picture Easy Software on PC15A

The Kodak Picture Easy Software has been loaded on PC15A.

This is additional to the Kodak DC240 Border Transfer, Controls, and Mounter program files already installed.

The Kodak Picture Easy ICON has been added to the PC15A desktop.

The two shortcut ICON's to Kodak Camera Control's and Kodak Program files have been removed from the desktop.

Digital camera pictures storage

On 25 October 2002, digital camera pictures from a blue zip disk (containing files copied from PC4 on the 18 October 2002) were copied to CD-ROM.

These files are:
digicam1/dcp_4049.jpg to dcp-4062 Camberwell Market Stall, dcp_4063.jpg Placing rock in front of steps to Golden Pavilion dcp_4080.jpg ,

dcp_4134 Western Garden Quan Yin,

dcp_4183.jpg to dcp_4216.jpg
digicam2/dcp_3817.jpg to 3868.jpg Full Moon in Chan Garden to jpg, dcp_4049 to, dcp_4167 to dcp_4169.jpg

These files are removed from the PC4 hard drive.

Digital camera pictures processing sets

Digital camera pictures from three Zip Disks are being copied to the C:\My Documents\My pictures folder on PC15A by Pennie White on Friday evening 25 October 2002. When all files have been copied they will be copied onto CD-ROM. When these files are on CD-ROM they will be cleared from the digital camera memory cards.

bsbonline.com.au domain name

Melbourne IT, registrar of record for bsbonline.com.au, have advised us by letter dated 10 October 2002, that they have terminated their Agreement with Web Access. Web Access was the host of our website.

Web Access will no longer be able to manage the maintenance and renewal of bsbonline.com.au using the reseller interface to Melbourne IT's domain name systems.

Melbourne IT will continue to be our .com.au registrar.

The domain name records for bsbonline.com.au as 10 October 2002 are as follows:

Organisation name: The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
Domain name: bsbonline.com.au

Melbourne IT will send a reminder notice when the domain name renewal is due.

To ensure our domain name is secure and protected Melbourne IT have changed the Domain Name Password in the central registry (used to arrange transfers between registrars) and our Melbourne IT Registry key (used to access Melbourne IT maintenance functions).

Melbourne IT will continue to be our .com.au registrar.

The domain name records for bsbonline.com.au as 10 October 2002 are as follows:

Organisation name: The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
Domain name: bsbonline.com.au

Melbourne IT will send a reminder notice when the domain name renewal is due.

To ensure our domain name is secure and protected Melbourne IT have changed the Domain Name Password in the central registry (used to arrange transfers between registrars) and our Melbourne IT Registry key (used to access Melbourne IT maintenance functions).

Care of Laser Printers

In order to ensure our laser printers are well looked after please take note of the following:

1. Do not leave items on top of laser printers. Sometimes pieces of paper, books, boxes, and so on are left on top of our printers.

Frank Carter found a paper clip in a laser printer housing.

The A3 printer in the Salon D'or for example had objects left on top of it. An air vent on the top surface of that printer needs to be kept clear.

Be careful not to have small objects near these printers as they can inadvertently fall into the printers.

2. Please do not put the paper we use in our ink jet/bubble jet printer into the laser printer as it will melt and damage the internals of the laser printer.

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10. Occupational Health and Safety News (OH&S)

A fence has been built among the new excavation work.

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11. Corporate Government & Reporting (CGR)

Colour Code: Red

CGR Manager: Pennie White

CGR Vice President: Evelin Halls

CGR Task Unit Members: Pam Adkins, Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Sharon Carlton, Frank Carter, Leanne Eames, Lenore Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Rilla Pargeter, Lainie Smallwood, Anita Hughes.

CGR Task Unit Responsibilities: Adhere to legal requirements of corporate affairs; accounts; communicate with Federal, State and Local government departments; organise GST payments; supply Australian Tax Office with Business Activity Statements; provide timely managerial information to ensure profits are made; provide quarterly Profit and Loss Activity Statements; arrange for the audit of accounts at a professional level to meet the Statutory requirements of the Gaming Commission of New South Wales (NSW).; arrange General meetings and maintain statutory minutes for these meetings; monitor and adhere to Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) policy; provide first aid facilities; organise attendants for staffing the Centre; correspondence; schedule events for our Teacher; structure new databases and train persons to maintain them; train personnel to operate CGR functions; refreshment supply; fund and organise Dana for the Sangha visiting the Centre; liaise with neighbours to create goodwill and to liaise with local newspapers to advise of upcoming events.

Regulations for conducting Raffles in Victoria

The regulations for conducting a raffle with a total prize value of $5000 or less include:

(a) Tickets may be sold for a maximum period of 3 months prior to the drawing of the raffle
(b) The value of the total number of tickets available for sale must not be greater than 6 times and not less than twice the value of all prizes
(c) A person who sells tickets must be authorised by the responsible person to do so
(d) The following must be printed on each ticket:
(i) the name of the community or charitable organisation to
benefit from the raffle
(ii) the ticket price
(iii) a description of each prize and its value
(iv) when and where the raffle will be drawn
(v) the method of notification of results
(e) The responsible person conducting the raffle must ensure accurate records are kept for a period of three years of:
(i) the disposition of funds after the finalization of the raffle
(ii) all tickets which have been printed
(iii) the distribution of prizes
(iv) banking statements clearly identifying all the transactions
related to the conduct of the raffle.
(f) A person conducting a raffle must keep and maintain a single account at a financial institution in Victoria for use for all transactions relating to the conduct of the raffle.

General Meetings held last Friday of each Month

It is Members’ duty to attend meetings to assure a quorum. General Meetings of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. are held on the last Friday of each month at 8:00pm.

General Meeting 29 November 2002 8:00pm

Please email any proposed motions for the next General Meeting to be held 29 November 2002 at 8:00pm.

Chan Academy Australia General Meeting

namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammasambuddhasa

Minutes of the General Meeting of the

Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.

A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488

held at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria 3158, Australia

on 1 November 2002 at 8:00pm

Members Present: John D. Hughes (Life Member: 2 votes), Anita M. Hughes (Life Member: 2 votes), Julian Bamford, Frank Carter, Pennie White.

Minute Secretary: Pennie White

Meeting Opened: 8:00 pm

Chairperson: Julian Bamford

Apologies: Pam Adkins, Peter Boswell, Evelin Halls, Lenore Hamilton, Rodney Johnson, Rilla Pargeter.

1. Motion: That the Minutes of the General Meeting of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. held on 27 September 2002 as read be accepted.

Moved: Frank Carter

Seconded: Pennie White

Carried

2. Motion: That the Profit & Loss Previous Year Comparison for September 2002 for the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. as tabled be accepted.

Moved: Frank Carter

Seconded: Pennie White

Carried

3. Motion: That the Four Month Cash Flow Budget from 1 October 2002 to 31 January 2003 for the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. as tabled be accepted.

Moved: Pennie White

Seconded: Frank Carter

Carried

4. Motion: That the Incoming Correspondence September 2002 Entries report for the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. as tabled be accepted.

Moved: Pennie White

Seconded: Frank Carter

Carried

5. Motion: That the Outgoing Correspondence September 2002 Entries for the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. as tabled be accepted.

Moved: Pennie White

Seconded: Frank Carter

Carried

6. Motion: That Dr. Ranjith Hettiarachi and Pushpa Hettiarachi attend as Unofficial Observers at the Global Conference Buddhism 2002, 7 to 8 December 2002 and the 22^nd General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, 9 to 15 December 2002, Selangor, Malaysia.

Moved: Frank Carter

Seconded: Pennie White

Carried

7. Motion: That letters be sent to those Members giving apologies for this meeting and Office Bearers not in attendance at this meeting, informing them that their duty is to attend General Meetings and non attendance will lead to inability to hold office.

Moved: Julian Bamford

Seconded: Pennie White

Carried

8. Motion: That the next General Meeting of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. be held at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey 3158 Victoria, at 8.00pm on 29 November 2002.

Moved: Pennie White

Seconded: Frank Carter

Carried

Meeting Closed: 8:22 pm

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12. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)

Colour Code: Yellow

IDA Manager: Evelin Halls

IDA Vice-President: Pennie White

IDA Task Unit Members: John D. Hughes, Pam Adkins, Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Leanne Eames, Julie O’Donnell, Rilla Pargeter, Anita Hughes.

IDA Task Unit Responsibilities: To maintain WFB liaison; to maintain WBU liaison; to arrange Dhamma and Prajna Paramita Teachings; chanting, pujas, translations; to maintain and preserve the John D. Hughes Collection; to organise audio and video recordings 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" radio scripts; to organise and teach Chan classes.

Past Buddhist Hour radio broadcast scripts

John D. Hughes Copies of Buddhist Hour Scripts are up to date. John D. Hughes copies are stored in folders on a shelf in the Sariputta room store.

May we preserve our Buddha Dhamma Heritage.

Buddhist Hour radio broadcast scripts

Last time we published our radio script titles was in BSB 78. We have to continue to publish our Buddhist Hour radio script titles (and dates) in the Brooking Street Bugle. This will help persons to search and find radio scripts. At present, we have no digital filing reference system for radio scripts. But if we keep loading the script to the BSB, we will can use the online search facility to start with.

12 May 2002: How to dissolve a mandala

19 May 2002: The need to preserve the minds that learn

26 May 2002: The Spreading of Buddha Dhamma on this Continent of Australia

2 June 2002: Celebrating This Year’s Vesak (2545 B.E.)

9 June 2002: Lending a Helping Hand

16 June 2002: How we use Human Resource Development to promote Buddha Dhamma

23 June 2002: International Buddhist Leaders meet in Upwey

30 June 2002: A remarkable event to remember

7 July 2002: More on the Australasian Buddhist Convention

14 July 2002: Examination of Training Issues at our Centre for the next nine years

21 July 2002: Savoir faire developed for increasing the depth of knowledge fields and friendliness on our web sites

28 July 2002: Refining our management as a global organisation

4 August 2002: Buddha Dhamma Women Practitioners at our Centre

11 August 2002: The President’s Annual Report 2001 – 2002

18 August 2002: Woman within the religious frame of Buddha Dhamma

24 August 2002: The outcome of persistence and dedicated efforts

1 September 2002: Reading Chan Landscape Pieces

8 September 2002: Connecting with Warm-Hearted Friends

15 September 2002: The application of friendliness to change the script

22 September 2002: Understanding the use of metta - loving-kindness

29 September 2002: Craving for happiness as an oxymoron

6 October 2002: Working towards Right Livelihood

Buddhist Hour Broadcast recordings sent to Venerable Tang

Nine audio cassette recording of Buddhist Hour Broadcast No.s 240 to 248 have been posted to:

Venerable Thich Phuoc Tang
The Phap An Buddhist Centre Inc.
17 Kororoit Court, Melton Vic 3337
P.O. Box 484 Melton Vic 3337

The tapes have been posted in two lots:

Lot 1 Program No.s Letter file ref: LAN2 I:\Let0032

No. 240 ‘Reading Chan Landscape Pieces’
1 Sep 2002
No. 241 ‘Connecting with Warm Hearted Friends
8 Sep 2002
No. 242 ‘The Application of Friendliness to Change the script'
15 Sep 2002
No. 243 ‘Understanding The use of Metta - Loving Kindness’
22 Sep 2002
No. 244 ‘Craving for Happiness as an Oxymoron’
29 Sep 2002
No. 245 ‘Working Towards Right Livelihood’
6 Oct 2002
No. 246 ‘Developing Wisdom to Use Compassion’
13 Oct 2002
No. 247 ‘How Buddha Dhamma Chanting Develops Our Practice’
20 Oct 2002

Lot 2 Program No. Letter file ref: LAN2 I:\Let0033

No. 248 'Developing adosa (non hate)
27 October 2002

National Day of the Republic of China

On Friday 11 October, our Resident Practitioners, John and Anita Hughes were represented by our President Mr. Julian Bamford, who was a guest of Mr. Benjamin Liang, Director-General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Melbourne, and Mrs Shari Liang, at a Reception in Celebration of the National Day of the Republic of China at the Grand Hyatt hotel Melbourne.

Our President, met with Mr and Mrs Liang and extended John and Anita Hughes best wishes and apologies for not being able to attend on this occasion, and thanked them for the opportunity to be in attendance at this important occasion.

The evening was opened with a Chinese Dragon ceremony, followed by a women’s choir singing the National Anthem's of Australia and the Republic of China. They were accompanied by a student orchestra.

Congratulatory speeches were given by the Honourable Ron Bowden Member of the Parliament of Victoria, Honourable Angus Rayform, Member of the Parliament of South Australia, followed by a welcoming speech by Mr Benjamin Liang.

Other guests Mr. Bamford spoke with included Honourable Ron Bowden, member of the Parliament of Victoria and Marion Lau, Chairperson Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria.

Photographs of the evening are to be uploaded to www.bsbonline.com.au issue No.80

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13. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)

Colour Code: Green

LAPAM Manager: Frank Carter

LAPAM Vice President: Frank Carter

LAPAM Task Unit Members: Julian Bamford, Frank Carter, Jason Glasson, Brendan Hall, Lenore Hamilton, David Igracki, Leila Igracki, Rodney Johnson, Lisa Nelson, Rilla Pargeter, Jean-Louis Gatton

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

New Kitchen and Dining Room

The first 10 stump holes of the New Kitchen Dining Room have been completed.

On 5 October 2002 Jason Glasson dug the tenth hole to complete the first row of holes along the South wall of the new building.

Offerings were then made at each hole to the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, the Deva who oversees the construction work, the other Devas of the Centre, the Centre's Protectors and Nagas.

John Hughes instructed that the following items be offered in each hole:

1 piece of incense
1 bronze coin (2 or 1 cent)
1 red flower
perfume
1 coloured jewel
1 small spiral shell
1 bowl of rice
1 bowl of flour
John Hughes and Anita Hughes business cards wrapped together in a plastic bag.

Offerings were made by John Hughes, Anita Hughes, Amber and Max Svensson, Jason Glasson and Frank Carter.

Offerings to Heavenly Sangha

Offerings of 290 medium sized cups of infused jasmine tea were made 1 November to the Heavenly Sangha as follows:

Venerable Padmasambhava;
Fours rounds of offerings: 27, 24, 33, 35.

Each cup offered was for all the emanations of Padmasambhava in all realms.

Venerable Narada;
Three rounds: 28, 37, 24.

Venerable Pannaseeha;
Three rounds 28, 30, 24.

When offering to Venerable Narada and Venerable Pannaseeha, each cup was offered to 1000 Members of the Heavenly Sangha, making a total of 171,000 offerings of tea.

The offerings were made by Frank Carter and Julian Bamford.

Fitting of ant caps on existing stumps

As part of our rebuilding preventative maintenance program, we will be fitting ant caps to the stumps on cement stumps located beneath the Anita Room. This will form part of the restumping for the new floor in the entrance to the new building.

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14. Members’ News

Helen Appleyard

Every Tuesday morning Helen offers breakfast to the Abbot of Wat Dhammarangsee, the Venerable Phra Kru Vinaithorn Tanee.

We are happy to announce that Helen and George had a baby daughter on 29 July 2002. Her name is Chloe Rose. May Helen, George and Chloe be well and happy.

Helen is one of our web masters under instruction of Pennie White and Evelin Halls. Helen has been loading photos to our websites www.bsbonline.com.au

Well Done Helen

Evelin Halls received the following grades for her assignments at Monash University: a distinction for ‘Project Management’, and a credit for the ‘Sociological Research Project’.

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15. Funds Appeal

Donations

To make a donation please complete and return this form to:

The Secretary,

Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.,

33 Brooking Street,

Upwey, Victoria, 3158.

Please make all cheques payable to "Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd."

Thank you for your kind contribution.

The gift of Dhamma excels all others.

May you be Well and Happy.

I / We wish to contribute funds as follows: $.......................

Name/Organisation....................................................................................................................

Address ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Receipt Required YES / NO

Gifts are not tax deductible.

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16. Photographs

View Photographs of our activities (13 pages)

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17. Transferring of Merit

We regularly transfer merit with the Mahasangha and local deities. They help us on all our projects.

We offer blessed water and food to the NAT House deities.

Diffusion of Metta or Loving Kindness:

Sabbe Satta;

(May all sentient beings),

Avera Hontu;