The Brooking Street Bugle

Issue No. 86 (New Series)
ISSN 1321 - 1463

Publication Date: 21 February, 2003

Published and Printed by the Chan Academy Australia.
Chan Academy is a registered business 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 3158 Australia
Telephone and Fax: +61 3 9754 3334
E-mail address: wbu@bdcu.org.au
World Fellowship of Buddhists Regional Centre
Associated Institution of the World Buddhist University





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

Our web sites:

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

Editors: John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem., T.T.T.C., GDAIE,
Anita Hughes RN Div 1
Assistant Editors: Pennie White, B.A., Dip.Ed., Leanne Eames, B.A., M.A.

Chan Academy Australia
Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Disclaimer

The Purposes of this Publication

Index

Copyright Provisions

1. Glossary

2. Sangha News

2.1 Abhidhamma Classes

Abhidhamma classes continue every Tuesday evening at 7.30pm.

We will continue to document weekly lessons for nine years providing a systemised approach to the study of Abhidhamma.

We invite our readers to contribute to these writings and we will publish their writings on our Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online newsletter at www.bddronline.net.au and www.bdcu.org.au.

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

May all beings be well and happy.

2.2 Abhidhamma Class Notes Online

Abhidhamma class 33 held on 4 February 2003 at the Chan Academy Australia is available on the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online, Vol. 13 No.1.

The title of Class No. 33 is 'Alobha'

Glossary of Pali language terms with approximate English translations

alobha: non-attachment to sense objects, greedlessness, generosity, disinterestedness.

2.3 Abhidhamma Teachings

Members are requested to bring suitable offerings each week to the Abhidhamma Teachings each week including: flowers, Basmati rice and reams of A4 paper.

2.4 Kala Chakra Puja
A Puja entitled the Kala Chakra Puja was held on the 27th January at the Chan Academy Australia, 33 Brooking Street Upwey 3158 Victoria.

The Puja was taught by Master Francisco So.

The Puja was the first of two parts.

Part Two is on 10 March (Labour Day holiday)

The Puja is from 9.30am to 11.30am and then from 1.30pm to 4.00pm. Requirements for the Puja are:

1. Sukhavati Ritual
2. Kala Chakra

All Members are welcome. Appropriate offerings for the Puja are round fruits, round biscuits, flowers and dark grape juice.

For further details please contact the Puja coordinator, Julie O'Donnell on (03) 9754 3334.

3. Coming Events

3.1 Coming Events in February and March 2003

22 February 2003 Chan Academy Sumi-e painting class taught by Master Andre Sollier 10.00am to 3.30pm
23 February 2002 Buddhist Hour Broadcast No. 265 on Hillside Radio 88.0 FM, 11.00am to 12 midday
23 February 2002 Chan Academy Australia weekly Stall at the Camberwell Market 6.30am ­ 12.30pm
25 February 2003 Abhidhamma class No.36 7.30pm to 8.30pm
02 March 2003 Buddhist Hour Broadcast No. 266 on Hillside Radio 88.0 FM, 11am to 12 midday
02 March 2003 Chan Academy Australia weekly Stall at the Camberwell Market 6.30am ­ 12.30pm
04 March 2003 Abhidhamma class No.37 7.30pm to 8.30pm
09 March 2003 Buddhist Hour Broadcast No. 267 on Hillside Radio 88.0 FM, 11am to 12 midday
09 March 2003 Chan Academy Australia weekly Stall at the Camberwell Market 6.30am ­ 12.30pm
10 March 2003 Kala Chakra Puja (Part Two) taught by Master Francisco So, 9.30am to 11.30am; 1.30pm to 4.00pm

3.2 Buddha Dhamma Chanting

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

We now include the following blessing in our chanting:

May I be well and happy
May you be well and happy
May all beings in all the ten directions, near or far, seen or unseen, May all beings be well and happy

3.5 His Holiness Sakya Trizin

His Holiness Sakya Trizin will be visiting Australia in May 2003.

In Melbourne Thursday 1 May 2003 : Public evening talk
at the Prahran Town Hall.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 2, 3, 4 May 2003: Vajrakilaya initiation and sadhana commentary at Prahran Town Hall.

Monday, 5 May 2003: Laying of the foundation stone of the Great Stupa to be built at the Atisha Centre near Bendigo.

Tickets will go on sale in March 2003.
For ticket enquiries contact Ticketek in March 2003.

To register interest visit: www.melbournesakya.org.au or contact the Melbourne Sakya Centre, PO Box 183, South Yarra Victoria 3141.

3.6 Calm abiding 4-Day Meditation Retreat in March 2003

Lama Choedak Rinpoche will be teaching a Calm Abiding 4-day Meditation Retreat 6 March to 10 March 2003 (Labour Day long weekend).

Venue: Maitripa Contemplative Centre;
528 Myers Creek Road
Healesville Victoria

For more information about this meditation retreat contact the Jamchen Buddhist Centre by telephone on (03) 9898 1199.

4. Company Structure

Our Company Office Bearers and Management Team

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 Peter Boswell CPA
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 Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Anita Hughes R.N.Div.1

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 Buddhist Hour Broadcast
Amber Svensson
Presenter 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.

5. Keynote Opportunities

5.1 New building construction

Help is needed on the building construction of the new private dining hall. If you would like to assist please telephone our Local Area Planning and Asset Maintenance Manager, Frank Carter on 0408 303 550.

5.2 Maintaining good relations with our neighbours

We seek to maintain good relations with our neighbours and we request Members minimise traffic noise when driving in Brooking Street.

Members not staying overnight as attendants are requested to remove their cars from the Centre driveway by 9.30pm each evening.

Please dip your head lights when leaving the driveway then turn them up when your car is facing the road.

If Members plan to work later than 10.00pm, then they must park their cars in the lower car park of the Dandenong Ranges Community Cultural Centre (DRCCC) off Matson Drive.

We thank the Dandenong Ranges Community Cultural Centre for allowing us to use their lower car park.

Members are requested not to park in Brooking Street at any time.

When driving in Brooking Street please keep your car speed at no more than 20 kilometers per hour, and avoid heavy acceleration at all times.

6. Appeals and Special Projects

6.1 Temporary storage for Market Stall Goods

One of our Brooking Street neighbours has kindly provided space in her garage as a temporary storage area for our market stall goods.

We have arranged access to garage twice a week to load and unload our goods. The times are between 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm on Saturdays and around 1.45 to 2.45 pm on Sundays. We are able to use the garage for four weeks.

If you would like to help with the provision of storage space for our market stall goods please call Frank Carter on 0408 303 550.

Thank you

6.2 New Discount available with Upwey Garden Supplies

Upwey Garden Supplies now include the Chan Academy Australia (Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.) as an account holder, entitling us to a 10% discount on all purchases made.

A similar arrangement exists with the Belgrave South Timber and Hardware which also provides a 10% discount to account holders.

When making a purchase please pay cash and mention that you are from our Centre and that we get a discount as an account holder.

6.3 Camberwell Market Cash Generation Stall

Every week our Camberwell Market Cash Generation Stall generates new funds for our Chan Academy Australia from general members of the public and further promote our good public relations.

For the first nine weeks of the 2003 stall roster 14 Members have volunteered to help with important cash generation and Public relations project. Working of the stall develop important skills in PR, sales, customer service, stock management, pricing, display and team work.

It is important that all Members support the stall by sourcing new products and material for the stall, and to continue making offerings to the appropriate Devas and Devatas and requesting their help.

Our goal is to profitably operate the stall 52 weeks a year.

Thank you Frank Carter and Lenore Hamilton for their ongoing co-ordination and management of this important cash generation and community PR project.

In 2002 Frank, Lenore and all the Members that have assisted in gathering goods, pricing, packing up the van, booking the site, set-up and operating the weekly stall, have succeeded in generating a total amount of $5096 averaging $266 per week. well done.

The stall also generated $122 for the Dhammarajika Orphanage in Bangladesh.

7. Current Research and Development Interests

7.1 Fuel reduction

We are interested in Fire Risk Reduction. Over the past few weeks we have been working to reduce the fire risk in the Chan Academy Australia's heavenly Chan garden.

Removing dry leaves, thinning garden growth, taking branch cuttings and garden waste to the tip, and removing old timber and flammable materials that are of no further use.

Our fire fighting team equipment has been checked and readied for fire emergencies that might threaten our Temple, the heavenly garden home for many Buddha Altars, Buddha images, bell tower, bodhi tree and stupa.

To maintain our Centre's lush garden of colourful flowers and blossoms, toparised trees and shaded ponds, during the hot dry summer we have been watering our garden with sprinklers between 5.00am and 8.00am and 8.00pm and 11.00pm in accordance with stage one water restrictions.

The fire risk reduction work in our garden continues daily.

If you would like to help with our fire risk reduction and caring for our heavenly Buddha Dhamma garden, please telephone Julian Bamford on 0400 267 330 or call the Centre on
(03) 9754 3334.

For information to increase your knowledge on planning for the threat of bush fires this summer, call the CFA on (03) 9735 0511, or go to the CFA website at www.cfa.vic.gov.au

8. John D. Hughes' News

8.1 Nomination for Victorian Senior of the Year

Our Teacher John D. Hughes, is being nominated for the Premier's Award for Victorian Senior of the Year by our President, Mr. Julian Bamford for the Victorian Seniors Festival 2003.

A biography written by Mrs. Anita M. Hughes has been sent with the nomination form. The biography details the numerous life achievements of John D. Hughes.

The Biography was included in Buddhist Hour Broadcast No.262 on Sunday 2 February, and is available online at www.bdcublessings.net.au

Premier's Award for Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year
Supporting information for the
Nomination for
John D. Hughes, Dip. App. Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE, Founder, Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
Council Adviser, World Buddhist University
by
Julian Bamford BA(AppRec),
President, Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.

Prepared 30 January 2003

The Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year Award seeks to raise the status of older people and focus community attention on the positive contribution older people make to our society.

I nominate Mr. John D. Hughes to be considered for his involvement in the Buddhist community both locally and internationally and his continued personal endeavour to build a Buddha Dhamma learning Centre in Australia, to propagate the teachings of the Lord Buddha.

John David Hughes is 72 years old, born on 9 September 1930, in Melbourne.

On 9 September 1978, John D. Hughes founded the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria 3158. He was 48 years old, and working as a high school teacher.

In 1990, at age 60 years, he retired, devoting his time to fund and develop the Centre as a global Buddhist organisation and to develop a Buddhist library.

25 years since inception, the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd is a Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, an Associated Institution of the World Buddhist University and a member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria; The John D. Hughes Collection library has 4000 catalogued Buddhist book titles including rare Buddhist texts.

John D. Hughes has achieved two of his life time goals.

How did one man do this?

John planned diligently. His life plans have the word 'I CAN' 'I WILL' 'I MUST' written on nearly every page.

When speaking to John you can see that he has great determination. He said that he had these goals in mind when he was 25 years old and geared his entire life to achieving these goals. When he retired from teaching, he could then start working for the Centre entirely.

1990 - John designed a strong teaching role for himself to teach other persons about Buddha Dhamma.

He commenced producing and publishing the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review 3 times a year and distributed it free of charge to 35 countries around the world. This publication is now on-line at www.bddronline.net.au

He taught Buddha Dhamma 2 nights a week ­ 7.30 pm onwards ­ usually to 2.00-3.00am.

On weekends he worked on the site ­ developing the Chan garden and extending buildings and maintaining the property.

He hosted annual New Year's Visits by the Vietnamese and Chinese communities, on weekends, to his Centre ­ up to 1000 persons a day during the months of January and February up to 1999.

All things continue to be done without creating debt. The funding is raised first, then the materials purchased and the work done.

Many things are donated as gifts and second hand materials used.

John continues to correspond with Buddhist organisations overseas, attend international Buddhist Conferences and became known to the world Buddhist community.

John teaches Chan ­ a Chinese form of painting, once a month. He went on self funded painting tours to Tasmania and Philip Island and has produced over 2000 paintings since his retirement.

Chan painting sales have funded many of the building improvements and other projects.

1992 ­ John attended the 18th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists in Taiwan.

1993 ­ John and his Members opened the Moomba festival on a river float with Buddha Dhamma chanting and sounding of the Dragon Gong.

1994 ­ John attended the 19th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists in Taiwan. He delivered a congratulatory message from the Prime Minister of Australia at the opening ceremony.

1996 ­ John visited Bangladesh to attend the Funeral celebration of the Sangharaja of Bangladesh ­ the head Monk. He was the guest speaker there.

1997 ­ John had a heart-attack. He recovered and returned to his teaching roles.

1998 ­ started the Buddhist Hour radio broadcast which has since generated 261 weekly programs.

1998 ­ He set up his first Buddhist Web site www.bdcu.org.au His Centre acted as Rapporteurs at the World Fellowship of Buddhists 20th General Conference held in NSW ­ the first Buddhist Conference ever to be held in Australia. He was elected as a Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists to represent Australia and Oceania. His Centre was elected as an Associated Spiritual training Centre of the World Buddhist University. His paper- Buddha Dhamma and Challenges in the 21st Century was published in the World Fellowship of Buddhists Review Jan ­ Jun 1999. He was elected as reporter for Australia and Oceania to the WFB newsletter.

1999 ­ started producing the internal newsletter The Brooking Street Bugle (New Series).

2000 ­ he attended the 21st World Fellowship of Buddhists General conference in Thailand and delivered a congratulatory message from the Prime Minister of Australia at the opening ceremony, attended by the Prime Minister of Thailand.

He was elected as a council adviser to the World Buddhist University.

He has set up multiple Web sites to provide Buddha Dhamma to persons world wide. You may visit these sites to read his papers, to view photographs of his overseas visits, his paintings and his Centre. Visit www.bdcu.org.au; www.bddronline.net.au; www.bdcublessings.net.au;. www.buyresolved.com au; www.bsbonline.com.au;

2001 April ­ He suffered from renal failure and underwent surgery for prostate cancer.

2001 September ­ He attended, by invitation, the International Conference on Religious Tolerance and World Peace in Taipei, Taiwan. There were 19 religions from 25 countries. His speech was published in the WFB Review.

2002 February ­ he attended the 3rd Council Meeting of the World Buddhist University and the World Conference on Buddhism and World Peace, Bangkok, Thailand. He was one of the main speakers at the conference and the panel discussion. His paper was published in the World Fellowship of Buddhists Review.

2002 September ­ Married Anita, a Buddha Dhamma practitioner.

2002 December ­ John sent a delegation of 6 senior members to represent him at the 22nd General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (He was unable to attend due to illness) in Malaysia. John received a message form the Prime Minister of Australia that was read by Mr. Julian Bamford, President, Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. at the opening ceremony. The Prime Minister of Malaysia was in attendance.

The organisation has been self funding and works on self help principles.

He is an inspirational speaker who helps persons overcome dysfunctional lifestyles of all descriptions.

In some countries he is accorded recognition of being a living Buddha Dhamma saintly person with the good qualities of being able to bless persons throughout the world.

His council is sought by over 1000 Buddhist organisations throughout the world. Because he has visited Bangladesh three times he has many followers in that country.

John's writings are relevant today as he shows how the ancient doctrines of Lord Buddha can be applied to the modern world and everyday life to bring about peace, prosperity and contentment.

John has generated over one million Australian dollars in goods and services for philanthropic work, in many countries.

His philosophy of self help is being implemented in many countries and is always conducted in a manner that is in Australia's national interest.

The organisation he has built, the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. is stable and sustainable and the next generation of its global leaders are in training at present.

His Chan paintings are well received internationally and are in art collections in many overseas countries.

The motto he teaches his students is to belong to "the school that never comes to error".

References

Web sites:
www.bdcu.org.au
www.bddronline.net.au
www.bdcublessings.net.au
www.buyresolved.com.au
www.bsbonline.com.au

8.8 New Kitchen Dining Room Building Materials

The building materials for the sub floor of the new kitchen dining room were delivered on Friday 7 February.

These materials include the bearers, joists, ant caps, drills and nails. The total price for these materials is about $860 which will be paid by john Hughes. Thank you to George Costas for enabling us to acquire the materials at a thirty percent discount.

8.9 New Kitchen Dining Room Construction

The fitting of bearers for the new kitchen dining room will commence on Sunday 9 February at 9.00am.

Registered builder George Costas will supervise the work and will be helped by Rodney Johnson and Jason Glasson.

It is estimated that the bearer work will be completed within 3 hours. George is available to help us until 11.00am

On Sunday afternoon Members will continue their construction work by fitting joists to the bearers.

Joists centres are to be 450mm apart. Double joists are fitted at each end of the construction as a base for the end walls.

9. Information Technology News

9.1 Longhair Australian News Vol. 2 No.1 Published in print and Online

Our second Longhair Australian News Volume was published on 4 February 2003.

Twenty bound paper copies of Longhair Australian News Vol. 2 No.1 have been produced.

We are happy to announce that Longhair Australian News, Volume 2 No 1, was up loaded to:
http://www.bsbonline.com.au/longhair/index.html on 5 February 2003 at 12.45pm.

On 7 February 2003 a copy of Longhair Australian News, Vol.2 No.1, was posted to the National Library of Australia in Canberra and to the State Library of Victoria. Thank you to Evelin Halls for organising the posting of these documents to the two libraries for their serials collections.

The work to convert the 150 page Volume from an rtf file, to a html file and prepare, insert bookmarks and check took 4.5 hours. The work was carried out off site by Webmaster Evelin Halls.

The broad objectives of the Longhair Australian News is to raise the cognitive level of readers. To do this, we

1. inform persons of product information;
2. inform persons of what text or photos or multimedia is added onto our websites week by week (What is new on our websites);
3. publish our documentation of technical help notes and instructions developed;
4. keep an accurate record of backups for what has been uploaded onto our sites and when, as well as a list of Compact Discs we have burnt;
5. inform persons of equipment we have installed;
6. inform persons of equipment we aim to acquire;
7. publish documentation on our recording and library practices;
8. map and picture ways of finding out what happens on our sites (Site Maps);
9. publish our statistics;
10. make our publications accessible (Longhair Publications including monographs);
11. To present coming information (Next Issue Preview)

We like the adventure of seeing thousands of visitors come to our sites.

We encourage each webmaster to send an internal email on our LAN giving information of what data was loaded and when. These emails are then copied and pasted into our Longhair Australian News.

9.4 Task List and Information Requests for Longhair
Australian News Vol.2 No.2

During February we will endeavour to include the following information in our Longhair Australian News Volume 2 No.2

The LAN2 emails from 27 January 2003 backwards, not included in Longhair Australian News Vol. 2 No.1

What is new on our websites data and some 'how to' notes obtained from our webmasters via our external emails

Website statistics other than from Sitemeter, e.g. those provided by our website hosts

How to make CD copies from audio tapes

List of CDs produced and burnt by our Longhair team (Pennie White , Julian Bamford, Evelin Halls and other Members who would like to help)

More about recording and library practices (consult our Chief Information Officer Leanne Eames, and check emails for relevant information)

e-learning: monograph (provided by Pennie White)

Site map

From LAN1: add Longhair 2 previously compiled data (file in I: drive)

LAN 2 documentation (to be edited to make it suitable to go online, e.g. no passwords)

This list is a guideline and can be extended or changed.

9.5 New Web Site Statistics (as at 7 Feb. 2003)

www.buyresolved.com.au

Site Summary

Visits Total 577
Average per Day 1
Average Visit Length 0:36
This Week 9
Page Views Total .. 1,179
Average per Day .......... 2
Average per Visit ...... 1.2
This Week .................. 11

Private Museum in Upwey

Site Summary

Visits Total ............... 109
Average per Day ........... 0
Average Visit Length 0:00
This Week .....................3

www.bddronline.net.au

Site Summary

Visits Total ................ 849
Average per Day ............ 2
Average Visit Length . 0:42
This Week ................... 11
Page Views Total ..... 1,378
Average per Day ............. 2
Average per Visit ......... 1.2
This Week .................... 13

9.6 How to obtain Readability Statistics

Usually we obtain the Readability Statistics with Word via the Spelling and Grammar Check.

However, if this process was run once on a specific document, it will either not work again or check only the remainder of the document and give you the wrong statistics.

The best thing to do is to run the Spelling and Grammar check only once, when you are sure that there will be no more edits, and then you will obtain the correct statistics.

Each Spell and Grammar check done on a document goes into the background code produced by Word and this memory code cannot be cleaned or reset (at least not with our version, Word 97).

If you have problems to obtain the Readability Statistics, there is another way to obtain them.

1. Save your document to a floppy disk
2. Go to a machine that has Star Office loaded, for example PC14A, PC4A, or PC13A, and open Star Office
3. Open your particular document
4. Save it as a text document (.txt)
5. Close the document
6. Go back to Word with the floppy and re-open your txt document
7. Highlight the part you want the Readability Statistics for
8. Run the Spelling and Grammar Check
9. At the end, the statistics will pop up
10. Write down statistics on paper
11. Close txt document
12. Open your original document (usually rtf, Rich Text Format)
13. Type in statistics

Please note to use the text (.txt) document simply for the purpose of obtaining the statistics, as it may throw out some more complex formatting that you may want.

9.7 God of Learning Altar Photographed

On 12 January 2003, 26 photographs were taken in the Reading Room of the God of Learning Altar, the Britannica Encyclopedia and Dictionary Collections bookcase, and the Reading Room protector.

The photographs were downloaded from the digital camera to PC15A where they were:

1. rotated to vertical
2. saved to mydocuments/mypictures/tempzipstore
3. lightened where necessary and saved as master jpegs x 26
4. batch conversion to Bitmaps (26 x 3.6MB)(folder name: bitmaps)
5. sized to 450 pixels(maximum dimension)then saved in web folder
6. the three lots: masterjpegs x 26, bitmaps, web were then burnt to CDRom x 4 copies (the fourth copy is kept offsite at the President's house.

The process from photographing to completion of the fourth CDRom and random checking took 3 hours and fifteen minutes.

The web ready images are to be uploaded to Brooking Street Bugle Online Issue 84 (new series).

The photographs were taken by Julian Bamford and Max Svensson.

9.8 Captions for WFB Conference photos

All photographs from the 22nd WFB Conference are uploaded on the BDDR Online Vol. 12 No. 8.

That is 251 photos on 32 pages.

Now we need to add captions to all the photos.

All WFB photo files on PC4A are ready for off-line viewing so that we can add text and then upload from this PC.

9.9 VET Version 10.54 update

The following PCs have been updated with the VET Version 10.54:

PC1A
PC4A
PC13A
PC14A
PC2A

All other PCs still need the update to be carried out.

Please note: This new version of the VET program does not scan the 100 files every time you restart a computer anymore.

However, the VET is active at all times in the background and will come up with a message automatically should a virus be found.

9.10 Keeping our LANs searchable

To keep our LANs fully searchable please do not save files onto the C: drives of our machines.

The C: drives are reserved to run Windows and some other programs.

Also, we want all of our files searchable. To be able to do this, we need to save all documents to the I: drive of the LAN.

Any C: drive of individual machines is NOT searchable via the LAN network.

The exception is our stand alone computers such as PC4A.

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

Fire bar liquid

When the entrance Hall floor has been rebuilt, it is to be treated with fire bar liquid to make it fire proof.

Cement sheet is to placed in front on the concrete stumps to prevent fire entering at ground level to go underneath floor boards.

A temporary safety rail is to be placed above the floorboard.

11. Corporate Governance & Reporting (CGR)

Colour Code: Red
CGR Manager: Pennie White
CGR Vice President: Evelin Halls
CGR Task Unit Members: Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Frank Carter, Leanne Eames, Lenore Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Rilla Pargeter, Lainie Smallwood, Anita Hughes, Amber Svensson.

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.
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11.1 General meetings held last Friday of each Month

One of the duties and responsibilities of each Members is to attend General and Annual General meetings assuring the quorum of seven Members. The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. General meetings are held on the last Friday of each month at 8:00pm.

11.2 Fax machine paper

The fax machine has experienced paper jams from time to time.

In order to prevent paper jams from occurring please keep the paper tray stacked more than half full at all times.

The jams only occur when the paper tray is less than 1/3 full.

11.3 Attendant roster

Members are requested to update the dates and times they intend to be at the Centre each week.

We want to print out roster sheets at least one month ahead. This way, persons have the opportunity to plan and roster themselves to ahead the Centre well ahead. Also, this will create causes to have more attendants in the future.

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 Abhidhamma Teachings 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.

12.1 Our Fifth Year of Broadcasting - Buddhist Hour
Broadcast 262 Online

Our 262nd Buddhist Hour Broadcast went to air on Sunday 2 February, marking our fifth consecutive year.

On Sunday 9 February we begin our sixth year of broadcasting with Buddhist Hour No.263.

Thank you to our Teacher John D. Hughes who had the vision to create the Buddhist Hour Broadcast and was the presenter on the very first program in February 1998. Guiding the Buddhist Hour's first 240 broadcasts as its Executive Producer.

Thank you to all the heavenly Devas and Devatas who bless the Buddhist Hour Broadcast. Please continue to help us.

Thank you to all the Members who have dedicated their time, energy and resources to learn the broadcasting skills, and to produce and broadcast the program each week. May they continue to write, edit and broadcast the weekly broadcast scripts.

May a second weekly Buddhist Hour Broadcast program go to air this year.

May the Buddhist Hour Broadcast continue for another five years and during that time be produced in digital form for global listening on one of our websites. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

The Buddhist Hour Radio Broadcast Script 262 for Sunday 2 February 2003 is uploaded at http://www.bdcublessings.net.au/radio.html. The script is entitled "The Blessing of Enjoying your own Material Objects".

This script has a special item: the Premier's Award for Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year, Supporting information for the Nomination for John D. Hughes.

We also included Chinese New Year greetings in the broadcast.

12.2 Cherry Tree Retirement Village - request for Dhamma
talk

Mr Bryan Russell from the Cherry Tree Retirement Village has enquired if we are able to give a talk about Buddhism at the above location.

John and Anita Hughes have agreed to visit the Cherry Tree Retirement Village to give a Dhamma talk.

The exact date has to be confirmed by Mr Russell, but it will be most likely to be on a Thursday end of March 2003 at around 7 am

The contact details are:
Mr Bryan Russell
Cherry Tree Retirement Village
Maroondah Highway
Croydon
Phone: 9723 1097

The enquiry was received at the Centre on 30 January 2003 at 11.30am.

12.3 Filing our weekly Buddhist Hour radio broadcast scripts

Each week we produce five copies of the Buddhist Hour program including running sheets, script and selling sheets for The John D. Hughes Collection. The copies are stored in two ring lever arc binders.

Two copies for John D. Hughes are stored in folders in the Sariputta room store.

May we preserve our Buddha Dhamma Heritage.

12.4 Chan Academy Sumi-e Program 2003

Visiting Master Andre Sollier will teach ten Sumi-e classes at the Chan Academy Australia this year.

The first three classes will complete the "10 Chan Masters" series commenced in the 2002 Sumi-e program:

Summer:

22 February 2003
Zen Master Dogen (Japan) 1200 - 1253

Autumn:

22 March 2003
Zen Master Hakuin (Japan) 1685 - 1768

26 April 2003
Master Ajahn Chan (Thailand) at Wat Pau Pong

Theme for 2003 is "The Seven Factors of Enlightenment"

Master Sollier has prepared seven paintings, one for each of seven Sumi-e classes. Master Sollier has given us permission to copy the pictures for display on our websites.

The original paintings have been scanned and can be viewed at www.bdcu.org.au and www.buyresolved.com.au. Each painting has a short description included with it.

The paintings were up loaded onto our websites on 31 January 2003.

The accompanying text was written by Master Andre Sollier and by Leanne Eames, M.A., B.A.

The scanning, HTML coding and up loading to the websites was done by Evelin Halls.

Thank you to Julian Bamford for helping with this project.

The dates and titles of the seven classes are:

Autumn:

Class 1: 24 May 2002
"Mindfulness"

Winter:

Class 2: 21 June 2003
"Keen Investigation of the Dhamma"

Class 3: 26 July 2003
"Energy"

Class 4: 23 August 2003
"Rapture or Happiness"

Spring:

Class 5: 27 September 2003
"Calm"

Class 6: 25 October 2003
"Concentration"

Class 7: 29 November 2003
"Equanimity"

Classes are held in the Chan Hall among rare calligraphy, Chan and Sumi-e masterpieces. All classes run from 10.00am to 3.00pm.

The cost of each class is $66.00 including GST. The class fee includes all materials.

Students may also purchase painting materials from our Centre.

For class booking, purchase of materials and enquiries please contact Julian Bamford on 0400 267 330.

12.5 Buddhist Hour broadcast script titles (12 May 2002 to 2 Feb. 2003)

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

20 October 2002: How Buddha Dhamma Chanting Develops Our Practice

27 October 2002: Developing adosa (non hate)

3 November 2002: Buddha Dhamma Practice and the Kathina Robe Ceremony

10 November 2002: Living in present time

17 November 2002: Food for thought

24 November 2002: The importance of maintaining sustainable Temples

1 December 2002: Affirming a resolution into practice

8 December 2002: Our Approaches to Wisdom and Compassion : Our Way Forward

15 December 2002: The importance of developing a sense of moral shame

22 December 2002: The path of Bhavana

29 December 2002: Report on World Fellowship of Buddhists 22nd General Conference - Wisdom and Compassion: The Way Forward

6 January 2002: Five Day Bhavana Course held 27-31 December 2002

12 January 2003: A system of Liberation and Enlightenment

19 January 2002: The blessing of being debtless

26 January 2002: The blessing of enjoying material objects

2 February 2003: The Blessing of Enjoying your own Material Objects

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, Peter Boswell, Frank Carter, Jason Glasson, Brendan Hall, Evelin Halls, Lenore Hamilton, David Igracki, Leila Igracki, Rodney Johnson, Lisa Nelson, Rilla Pargeter, Kate Ryan, Amber Svensson.

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.

14. Members' News

Member Amber Svensson has commenced her VCE studies in 2003. She plans to study medicine at University in 2005 and become a practicing Doctor.

Member Evelin Halls has moved to Upwey on Saturday 5 April 2003. Thank you to Peter Boswell, Roger Bowen, David Ley and Julian Bamford for helping with the move, and thank you to Pennie White who provided lunch for everyone.

Evelin held a puja to bless her new on Friday 4 April 2003, at 7.15pm. Peter Boswell and Pennie White attended the chanting.

15. Funds Appeal

15.1 New Private Dining Room Appeal

We appeal for funds or materials to build the new private dining room.

15.2 Summer Garden Raffle Tickets On Sales Now

Chan Academy Australia... painting a better world through the Summer Garden Raffle.

Following the success of our Spring Garden Raffle, Members are now selling raffle tickets for our Chan Academy Australia Summer Garden Raffle.

The Summer Garden Raffle tickets create the opportunity to win $750 worth of beautiful flowering plants. Over 50 garden plants such as fuscias, rhododendrons, roses, dahlias and Australian natives delivered to the winner (if outside Melbourne metro area arrangements for delivery will be arranged with winner).

Tickets are $2 each and are being sold throughout the Summer. The raffle will be drawn on the 4th of March 2003 at 33 Brooking Street Upwey Victoria.

Tickets can be purchased by contacted Frank Carter, Lenore Hamilton at Chan Academy Australia on (03) 9754 3334 or Julian Bamford on 0400 267 330.

Donations

Please send donations to:

The Secretary, Chan Academy Australia,
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.

Gifts are not tax deductible.

16. Photographs

Photographs will be uploaded to this issue of the Brooking Street Bugle soon.

17. Transferring of Merit

Diffusion of Metta or Loving Kindness: