Ven. Pasanna ☸️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏕️

LOTS on over the next few days.
Pindapat tomorrow in Campbelltown 11.30 Mawson Park
Sat: Metta Center Māhadāna Festival (30 monastics) 10am-5pm Burwood Park
Sun: Burwood Pindapat 11am, Sutta Class MN60 1.30—3pm Rhonda Place, Concord
Monday 7pm Monastic panel discussion on Right Effort - Rhonda […]

Pindapat with Bhante @sujato.bsky.social and 10 other monastics in Harris Park today. You can offer food along Wigram street, south of the post office. Shared picnic in Rosella Park. BYO blankets, cutlery and plates

I am very much enjoying reading “Trans Care’ by Hil Malatino. It’s a delightful, vulnerable yet academic look at how Trans people show up for each other in the face of systems which ignore or erase us. You can read it for free here https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/trans-care

When someone starts to evangelise by saying the Buddha had a thought under a lotus tree… you know it’s going to be a boring and pointless conversation

🩷🤍🩵 PROTECT TRANS KIDS 🩷🤍🩵
Gender affirming care saves lives.
Gender dysphoria is crippling and we have a proven way to alleviate it.

Shame on the QLD government.
May all beings be happy! 🩷🤍🩵

Food sorted for today TIA

Unfortunately, due to this body acting in accordance with dhamma, I will not be on pindapat today in Campbeltown.

“Ultimately, ​being a trans ally doesn't just benefit trans people, it helps increase cultural diversity, promote empathy and challenge harmful stereotypes, which contributes to Australia being a more equitable and caring country for all@ […]

Tech companies consider giving up efforts to combat misinformation online in Australia Critics say misinformation is a big problem that social media platforms profit from

Apparenlt misinformation is subjective and dictated by our value. Ummm no. It's stuff that isn't true true.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/01/tech-companies-consider-giving-up-efforts-to-combat-misinformation-online-in-australia

One of the best things about being a monastic is the amount of kindness I get to witness.
Even then, I am sometimes surprised with how someone will go out of their way to be helpful and kind.

'Do not neglect wisdom; preserve truth; foster generosity; and train only for peace.’ - The Buddha MN140
#realbuddhaquotes #buddhism #buddhistsky #mastodharma

When cattle ford a river,
if the bull goes off course,
they all go off course,
because their leader is off course.
So it is for humans:
when the one deemed chief
behaves badly,
what do you expect the rest to do?
The whole country sleeps badly,
when the king is unprincipled.
- AN4.70 #buddhism

Health is the ultimate blessing;
contentment, the ultimate wealth;
trust is the ultimate family;
extinguishment, the ultimate happiness
- The Buddha
#realbuddhaquotes #buddhism #dhammapada

Sunday evening 6pm AEST 🇦🇺/ Sunday morning 9am BST🇬🇧 I will be teaching for Anukampa Grove on the topic of "Wise discrimination, wise inclusion".
Get the zoom link via the Anukampa newsletter https://anukampaproject.org/events/#regular

When anger surges like a lurching chariot,
keep it in check.
That’s what I call a charioteer;
others just hold the reins.
- The Buddha
#realbuddhaquotes #buddhism

“Race and racism have always been so challenging to talk about in this country. We don't have the racial literacy to talk about it. Often the person that calls out racism gets attacked far more than the alleged perpetrator of the racism.' […]

Let us live very happily,
Not hating among the hostile.
Among hostile beings,
let us live without hate.
-the Buddha
#realbudddhaquotes #buddhism

Glad to see people out there doing the important research. Campos Superior only scored 4.3/10 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/24/australian-supermarket-ground-coffee-taste-test-ranking-41-varieties

An incredible digital archive and map of truth telling around the massacres of indigenous people by colonial invaders. https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/the-australian-wars-new-insights-from-a-digital-map/

Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community Rainbodhi is a spiritual friendship group for LGBTQIA+ Buddhists and an advocate for more inclusion and diversity in the broader Buddhist community. We offer meditation, Dhamma discussion and social events in a safe, supportive environment. We welcome everyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or ability. Rainbodhi is a non-sectarian Buddhist group, welcoming people from all faiths or with no faith. All our events are free.Our name combines two words; rainbow representing our diverse community and bodhi the Buddhist concept of Enlightenment. We belive in inclusion, compassion and wisdom.

http://tinyurl.com/Rainbodhi-events

Hey, beautiful #trans, #nonbinary, #genderdiverse & #queer America. It's tough right now. Sending love from Australia. Join Rainbodhi USA, Sunday 21st Sept, 6pm ET (tonight) to rejoice in our integrity, harmlessness & goodness. tinyurl.com/Rainbodhi-ev... May all beings be happy! #lgbtq #Buddhist

Breaking! Not only do people love their pets, those same pets are all very good boys and/or girls | First Dog on the Moon More people than ever are waking in existential horror at 4am and reaching out to clutch their snoring labrador for comfort (or is that just me?)

This is a small dose of furry feel goods distraction to combat the existential doom 🐶.... ok, back to the doom ☀️🍉🏳️‍⚧️
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/sep/19/breaking-not-only-do-people-love-their-pets-those-same-pets-are-all-very-good-boys-andor-girls

Pindapat tomorrow in Campbelltown NSW (every Friday 11.25am at Mawson Park)
Pindapat this Sunday in Burwood NSW (Sept 21st 11.25am at Burwood Park memorial arch)
Sutta discussion this Sunday 1.30-3pm MN62 (Rhonda Place, Concord - opp Jessie Stewart Reserve)

Details on my website- link in bio

“.... there are these four powers. What four? The powers of wisdom, energy, blamelessness, and inclusiveness.
...
A noble disciple who has these four powers has got past five fears. What five? Fear regarding livelihood, disrepute, feeling insecure in an assembly, death, and bad rebirth." AN9.5

🏳️‍🌈🪷🏳️‍⚧️🪷
I'm really looking forward to seeing all the beautiful LGBTQIA+ Buddhists tomorrow, 1.30pm at Rainbodhi Sydney's event at Green Square library- Anything Room.
🏳️‍🌈🪷🏳️‍⚧️🪷
#LGBTQIA #trans #mayallbeingsbehappy #QueerBuddhist #Rainbodhi #Buddhism #Sydney

‘If someone gets to know a trans person then they will change their mind’ is a problematic approach. It places the onus on trans people to prove they are not less-than human and denies their right to be complex humans. #transrightsarehumanrights

I was deeply touched by this recent post by Amma Thanasanti

"Where in your life do you feel the pull of belonging pressing against your values? And what would it mean to let integrity—and a commitment to harmlessness—lead the way?" […]

Spiritual abuse is abuse, emotional abuse is abuse, coercive control is abuse.
Do not glorify abusers!

Pindapat complete including a philosophical discussion in the park regarding dependant origination with a stranger. The conclusion was that there should be more public philosophy #livingthedream #monasticlife #rightlivelihood

Australia’s high use of antidepressants “constitutes a failed attempt to medicate away what are, in fact, social problems”. ... while “antidepressants may be of benefit to some people suffering persistent psychosocial distress,” they should not be the default […]