Ajahn Brahm talk - August 2009

PERTH, W.A.

PUBLIC DIALOGUE:AJAHN BRAHM & THE ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP ROGER HERFT AT THE CURTIN UNIVERSITY

Date : Wednesday 12th August 2009
Time : 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Campus: Bentley
Lecture Theatre: Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre
Dialogue Topic : WHAT WOULD JESUS & BUDDHA SAY TO EACH OTHER?

Go to Events Page for more information :
http://multifaith.curtin.edu.au/calendar/events/pdialogue-brahm-herft.cfm

Background

Ven Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine WA and the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. The Most Reverend Roger Herft is the Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perth. Together they represent the fastest growing major religious group (Buddhism) and the second largest religious group (Anglicans) in Australia. Because of this, dialogue between Buddhists and Anglicans is both valuable and important within Australian society. Ven Ajahn Brahm and the Most Reverend Roger Herft will both lead and model this dialogue during this event.

Dialogue Topic

While there would be many interesting topics which Ven Ajahn Bram and the Most Reverend Roger Herft could engage in, they have chosen the topic “What Would Jesus and Buddha Say to Each Other?”. As both speakers reflect on the founders of Buddhism and Christianity during this dialogue, they will be able to uncover how these religious leaders would have approached each other's teachings and methods. They will also seek to identify what Jesus and Buddha would have encouraged their own followers to do in the multi-faith society and world in which we live.

Au Revior

We lost a few famous people this year:

Michael Jackson


Farrah Fawcett

Mollie Sugden

Wendy Richard

David Carradine

Ed McMahon

Dom DeLuise

Bea Arthur

Natasha Richardson

Twitter?

There's Twitter and there's Yammer.

Twitter = friends mainly;

Yammer = Business - you can create your own Yammer address so that only staff can chat to other staff - Twitter style.

Kiss - Rock and Roll all Night with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

It looks like there is the entire evening uploaded into individual youtube files, I've found Detroit Rock City which was another favourite of mine!

Ajahn Brahmavamso ("Ajahn Brahm")

The Buddhist Society of WA has many of Ajahn Brahms talks which are lovely to sit and listen to, there are also many Youtube videos you can watch.

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A JAPANESE restaurant in New York took pity on a 140-year-old lobster called Craig and said it would not end its days boiled in a pot but instead swim free in the Atlantic Ocean.

Craig has been exhibited to customers in an aquarium but its owners at Halu Japanese Restaurant & Grill in Brooklyn announced they would have the old 10kg crustacean shipped to Maine, where it is to be released into the sea.

Local law there forbids taking lobsters above a certain size.

"Kudos to Halu for allowing Craig to live out the rest of his days in his native habitat," Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animals rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said.

PETA has organised a campaign to liberate restaurant lobsters and avoid them being thrown alive into boiling water.

According to invertebrate zoologist Jaren Horsley, lobsters have a "sophisticated nervous system" and feel "a great deal of pain" when cut or cooked alive.