Uposatha Observance Club

Buddhist ethical conduct including the Five Precepts (Pañcasikkhāpada), and Eightfold Ethical Conduct (Aṭṭhasīla).
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Happy Uposatha Day! It's great to finally able to do something worthwhile on New Year's Eve! Metta.

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yes great way to start the new year..
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Happy Uposatha Day!
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Observing uposatha days is one of my resolutions for the New Year. I've been going by the actual phases of the moon as seen from Japan, where I live.

It's nice having the day to reorient myself. And, I'm finding that it's actually a bonus that the days are completely at odds with the solar calendar, since it prevents them from feeling like a routine, like it might feel if they were simply every Saturday or Sunday.

I'd like to find a bhikkhu in my area to visit for dana.
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Yuuki,

Sounds like observing the uposatha is going to be a fruitful practice for you. All the best to you! Be well!
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Happy Uposatha Everyone! Metta!
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Happy uposatha everyone! Here are this year's dates:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... a2010.html
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Khalil Bodhi wrote: Here are this year's dates:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... a2010.html
Interesting that this year there is no different between the two Thai sects. This list agrees with my Thai calendar which my Wat uses (with Mahanikaya dates). Perhaps they have come to some sort of agreement... Of course, there may well be differences from other countries...

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Mike,

Cool, that means that there'll be even more of us observing on every uposatha day. :twothumbsup: Be well!
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Happy uposatha everyone!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183

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Greetings,

Gosh darn it... I forgot all about it today.

Even still - it was quite a mindful day, and I got to read some more of my expanded edition of the Dhammapada, complete with the stories.

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Retro,

You may be in luck. If you go by the days that Samahita Bhikkhu emailed me last week then tomorrow is really the uposatha! I was considering it but then I realized that it's Valentine's Day here in the US tomorrow so I decided that to forget about it and live to observe another day. :tongue: Anyway, be well and best wishes. Metta.
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Hi Khalil and Retro

Happy observance day. Sounds like an appropriate antidote to valentine's day insanity.
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Ben wrote:Hi Khalil and Retro

Happy observance day. Sounds like an appropriate antidote to valentine's day insanity.
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Happy uposatha day everyone! :anjali:
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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