HAIB Monthly Ukraine Peace Prayer (April 24, 2022)
HAIB Monthly Ukraine Peace Prayer
The teacher/leader for our HAIB monthly meditation for peace on April 24, 2022, from 5:30- 6:30 pm will be:
Gregory Pai, Ph.D
Gregory Pai, Ph.D. has practiced meditation since the mid-seventies in the Tibetan Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, and Vipassana or Insight Meditation traditions. His teachers include Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Robert Aitken, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Silananda, and Sayadaw U Kundala in the Burmese tradition, as well as Jon Kabat-Zinn. He was trained at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center and currently teaches a public meditation class at the Broken Ridge Korean Temple. He has also taught meditation to the mentally disabled at the Hawaii State Hospital, Kahi Mohala, Queens Hospital, as well as veterans at Tripler Hospital and at the Center for Alternative Medicine of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.
Currently retired, Dr. Pai served in the administrations of Governor Benjamin Cayetano and John Waihee and Commissioner for the Hawaii State Public Utilities Commission, and Chief Economist for the First Hawaiian Bank.
Agenda
5:30 p.m. Introduction - Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel
5:35 p.m. Update on the humanitarian efforts for Ukraine: Oleksii Savenko and Xiao Yi (10 min)
5:45 p.m. Compassion in a Time of War: Buddhist Reflections on the War in Ukraine - Gregory Pai, Ph.D. (20 min)
6:05 p.m. Meditation on the Brahmaviharas: Lovingkindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity (10 min)
6:15 p.m. Open Dharma discussion (10 min)
6:25 p.m. Closing with the Metta Sutta
Video Replay of the event
Dana opportunities for this month's meditation can be sent to support the humanitarian efforts for Ukraine at https://tinyurl.com/peaceinukraine
