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A Special Celebration – Concert Musicians

The following are some of the musicians who have volunteered to perform in the honor concert from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Fran Southworth has been singing since she was five years old, and writing and recording songs since she was fifteen. Her voice became familiar to the American TV and radio audiences through her…

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Samadhi Retreat Schedule – 2007

    June   June 1 – 7 Centre for Conscious Living Morestown, New Jersey, USA Group is led by Rev. Carol Lawson. Flyer available here.   June 8, 9, 10 Family Retreat At Samadhi Center (Mainly for the Czech People) Come and share with your family the spiritual atmosphere of Samadhi Center. We would…

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Samadhi Experience – Thoughts From Retreat Participants

Recent retreat participants have contributed the following comments that we are delighted to share with you below. It is our hope that you will also get a chance to visit us in 2009. We are preparing for a busy summer at the center. “I enjoyed every moment of my visit to Samadhi. I specially loved…

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Donating a Multipurpose Heart Monitor to Mayanmar (Burma)

In December 2004 the Jivitadana Hospital in Yangon, Mayanmar received a multi purpose heart monitor from Triple Gem Society. This hospital, located in the capital city, is a non-governmental charitable medical institute. Established in 1940, and managed by mostly volunteer retired government servants and health care professionals, this hospital provides free health care to everyone.…

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Samadhi Retreat Schedule – 2008

    April   April 17 – 20 Martial Arts Group   April 25 – 27 Olande Ananda You have the rare opportunity to participate in a weekend meditation retreat with Dutch Therawada Budddhist monk Olande Ananda. Venarable Ananda, who is also a good friend of Ven. Bhante Wimala, lives in Sri Lanka and travels…

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New Uniforms for One Hundred Fifty Orphaned Girls

For eighteen years, the Sri Lankan government fought a long and difficult war with a separatist group called the Tamil Tigers. By the time the government negotiated a cease-fire with the separatists in 2001, about seven thousand people had lost their lives. Although more than a year has passed since fighting has ended, the damage…

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Playground and Solar Power for the Paramaduwa School

To reach the small school, we traveled two hours by car from the city of Anuradhapura. Then we traveled another three kilometers on an unpaved dusty road. At first sight, it didn’t look like much at all. If you did not see the students, you would not have believed that the long hut and the…

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Road to Health

We have sponsored the construction of the road to and the inner pathways at Dunhinna Rural Hospital. Traveling approximately 10KM on winding mountain roads from Kandy, the main city in the hill country of Sri Lanka, you can reach the village of Dunhinna in 30 minutes. The village is safely hidden among the beautiful green…

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In an Old Age Home for Women

Traveling from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, we arrived at this quiet village of Warapalana in the district of Yakkala in 45 minutes. Twenty elderly ladies live in the Warapalana home for women. It feels like the perfect place to spend one’s old age being surrounded by trees and vegetation. Most of the women…

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