Seeking Monastic Ordination in the Sangha

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Hello, my name is Jeff Brooks. I live in the USA and I have been a lay

follower of the Buddha for 30 years. In the duration of these three decades I

have

practiced meditation (Satipatthana) at least twice a day, as well as studied

dhamma and reflected upon it almost daily, and I have endeavored to keep the 5

lifetime precepts.

 

I have observed the 8 precepts for 4 years now, and I now sit three times a

day for at least an hour each time. I dedicate every waking moment to the

benefit of all beings through teaching meditation (samadhi), wisdom (panna) and

ethics (sila).

 

As a consequence of the decades of my practice regimen I have given rise to a

pleasant abiding in the here and now (jhana/dhyana). My meditations are

exceedingly pleasant, and I do not lose awareness when the body sleeps. Through

my practice the hindrances have been subdued, so I am not compelled to pursue

obsessive and compulsive behaviors that are driven by greed, ignorance,

delusion, doubt, grasping and aversion that are the manifestation of narcissism,

thus

I lead an ethical life, and am thus a good role model.

 

I am now 50 years old. My last child is now grown and about to leave home,

as he is fully independent. I am no longer married. My parents and my

children have given their permission for me to seek ordination, therefore I

would

like to ordain and spend the remainder of this lifetime as a monastic follower

of

the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, teaching and counseling students in what I

have come to embody, which is meditation (samadhi), wisdom (panna) and ethics

(sila).

 

Please tell me if you are able to offer such a one as myself an ordination

program, or you know of one.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Jeff Brooks