New Years Blessings Thai New Year 2563

On the occasion of Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat would like to extend their wholehearted well-wishing with this short Dhamma teaching and the recitation of the Ratana-Sutta, a protection-chant praising the virtues of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha in times of famine, unwholesome spirits and epidemic.

วันสงกรานต์ ที่วัดป่านานาชาติ ๒๕๖๓

พระครูอุบลภาวนาวิเทศและคณะสงฆ์วัดป่านานาชาติ ให้พรช่วงงานสงกรานต์ และสวดรตนสูตร วันที่ ๑๓ เม.ย. ๒๕๖๓

ขอให้ญาติโยมมีความสุขและเจริญในธรรม วันสงกรานต์ ๒๕๖๓

Sangha in Wat Pah Nanachat well supported every day

Every day, despite the ongoing difficulties that many of us face during the Covid 19-pandemic - here in Thailand and all over the world - the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat gratefully continues to receive much generous support while the monastery is closed down for the public. A support team from Bung Wai village and various monastery disciples from town bring fruits, vegetables and other raw material for cooking to the gate at 7:30 am. Ajahn Kevali usually comes out, well protected with face mask and a safe distance to all, and exchanges a few words with the outside world on the road.

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Then the supplies are taken into the monastery, and processed accordingly by four lay-women residing in the monastery.

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With a blessing chant the Sangha then silently takes their one meal a day, sitting well separated from each other.

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After bowl washing Ajahn Kevali gives the usual brief encouragement for everyone’s practice with the monks and novices listening spread out through the main hall.

Then, in the usual way of the forest tradition, the monks and novices disperse for a day of individual meditation at their huts in the forest.

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Fortunately the Sangha is all healthy and well and greatly appreciates the opportunity to practice in seclusion.

May we all share our merits with everyone painfully affected by this global crisis, and wish all people long life, a healthy body, happiness and strength.

Recollections in Seclusion

After Morning Chanting in a monastery closed down from the public due to the Corona-Virus Pandemic Ajahn Kevali gives the following recollections to the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat preceding the daily quiet meditation period before dawn.

Magha Puja Candle-Procession at Wat Pah Nanachat

Celebrating “Magha Puja Day”, the occasion where the Buddha gave a summary of his teachings to a spontaneous assembly of a large number of his disciples on the full moon day of the month of Magha (Febuary), the community of Wat Pah Nanachat held a traditional candle-procession around the main meditation hall and the old bot in the central area of the monastery.

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Going Forth as Novice

Early morning of Wednesday 22. Jan 2020 an Eight-Precept-Postulant (Anagarika or Pakao) from Israel requested the Going Forth as a Samanera (novice) from the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat. Under Ajahn Kevalis guidance he was wholehaertedly welcomed in the midst of the community.

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Acceptance of two new monks into the Wat Pah Nanachat Sangha

On Jan 10th at 4:00 am, a novice from Sweden and Germany were accepted into the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat as Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks) under Luang Por Liem Thitadhammo (Phra Rachabhavanavikrom), the abbot of Wat Pah Pong as their preceptor, with Ajahn Sukhito and Ajahn Kevali as the chanting-achariyas. We wholeheartedly wish them fulfillment of their Holy Life as monks in the Wat Pah Nanachat Sangha.

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New Years Eve at Wat Pah Nanachat 2562/2019

New Years Eve at Wat Pah Nanachat 2019/2562, the Sangha and lay-community spent under the open sky at the building-site of the upcoming uposatha hall, meditating and chanting into the new year, with blessings of Luang Por Pasanno (Phra Rachabodhiviteht, from Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, California), Ajahn Medhino (Sri Lanka), Ajahn Nyaniko (the new abbot of Wat Abhayagiri), and many elders gathered for this auspicious occasion.

May all of you be blessed with a peaceful and happy new year.

New Sandstone Buddha-Image mounted

The new sandstone Buddha image for Wat Pah Nanachats ordination hall under construction was mounted on it’s pedestal on October 28, 2019 with Luang Por Liem and Luang Por Anek and the Wat Pah Nanachat Sangha giving their blessings. Luang Por Liem gave the statue the auspicious name “Phra Buddhasumedhaguna“ -Quality of good wisdom - Buddha - drawing a link to Ven. Luang Por Sumedho, Wat Pah Nanachat’s first abbot.

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Wheel of Dhamma in front of Wat Pah Nanachat

Since October 2nd, 2019, in the strip of newly planted forest in front of the main wall of Wat Pah Nanachat, a new grey, handcrafted sandstone “Wheel of Dhamma” (Dhammacakka) sets a sign for people that this little green park is part fo the monastery, creating an aura of respect for the teachings of the Buddha as people enter the monastery. The monastic and lay-community gathered when the wheel was mounted in the morning hours after the monks returned from their almsround.