Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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| Location | Perth, Ontario, Canada |
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| Introduction | Born in Montreal, (1949), by the time I became a Buddhist nun in 1988, I was at the height of my professional work with international agencies including UNICEF and WHO. Karmic intuitions in early meditations from age 21 led me to study in India under the guidance of an Advaita sage. In the dozen years after my ordination as a ten-precept nun, I trained and practised at the Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha in Myanmar and Amaravati Monastery in England. I left the security of community to live as a solitary mendicant for eight years in New Zealand and later Penang. After nearly 20 years as a nun, in Taiwan, 2007, my long-held wish to be ordained as a bhikkhuni was fulfilled. With conditions ripe for a new challenge, I returned to Canada to establish Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a monastery where women can train as Theravada bhikkhunis. Through this life's journey, I learn universal lessons: wherever we are, whatever our vocation, unseen Himalayas appear on the path just when we think we've reached the top. If we put forth our best effort to scale them, we discover our true home nowhere else but in the temple of our own heart. |