VENTURA BUDDHIST CENTER An LAC Mission

KATHINA 2020 -TIBC on Sunday, November 08.

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Sunday, June 14, 2020

VESAK -Buddha Day Ceremony on Sunday June, 14,2020 from 10am to 12 noon at An Lac Mission-Peace Garden.

Please join us for these two events sponsored my Thai temple in Santa Barbara See you there! "Tea Time With the Monks." Brew a cup of tea and "meet" us in the t...ea house. Ajahn Kamjahn can talk about whatever he wants--Dhamma, his favorite tea, drinking tea as a mindfulness practice, etc. Sunday at 5pm Zoom # 830 030 1414 Courtney Purcell will be giving a presentation on his Thailand experience living in a temple and teaching the Monks English on April 19 at 6:30 PM Zoom # 684 411 411 Password 020141

JOIN 1MILLION MEDITATORS FROM YOUR HOME on Saturday, April 4th @7:45pm Join 1 Million Meditators on Saturday, April 4th @7:45pm (Sunday 5 th April 10.45 Malaysian Time) to help Bring an end to COVID 19! ... For the first time in World History world wide organisers are calling all who meditate to gather together at their respective time zones 10.45 am Sunday 5tg April (for Malaysia) irrespective of creed or religion to MEDITATE to help bring an end to this worldwide suffering for 20 minutes. It is expected that the concentrated mind force of 1 million people, will have a profound effort on the negativity created by mankind, to help heal our wounded world. This is not a far fetch idea or a fantasy. In a famous experiment, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of TM had 7000 meditators meditating. Together in USA. IT was found that hospital admissions decreased, crime & fell, accident rates, all fell around Christmas when normally it should be at an all time high. Even the Stock Market which normally queit around Xmas went up! Religious oranisations and meditators who care for this only home we have called EARTH will be joining this Historic World Effort. All Sisters and Brothers please remember 5th Apiril 10.45 am to sit down to meditate and pray. There has never being such an effort in World history, and i for one will not miss it to join the millions who will take part. JOIN FROM HOME & BE PART OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING THIS SATURDAY' AS A SERVICE TO ALL, AND FOR OUR LOVED ONES TOO.

Letter from MDs in our Boston community: please share. As there is so much confusion, misinformation, and denial on social media about the coronavirus we hope ...to explain, in plain language, why the experts see this as such an emergency. Many people are reading the claim online that this virus is a lot like the viruses that cause colds, and that if you get it, it will probably just seem like a bad cold and you are very unlikely to die. Depending on who you are, this may be true, but there is more to this story that is key to our outcome as a community. This is a coronavirus that is new to the human population. Although it is related to the viruses that cause colds and acts a lot like them in many ways, nobody has ever been exposed to this before, which means nobody has any immunity to it. The virus is now moving explosively through the human population, spreading through respiratory secretions and 10 times more contagious than the flu or cold. Although many people will recover, about 20% will wind up with a serious pneumonia that will require hospitalization. Some will be so ill from pneumonia that they will die. We estimate this mayvbe 2-3%, but it is higher in Italy’s experience, partially because the healthcare system was overwhelmed so rapidly. In those over age 70, the death rate is 8-20%. So if a child catches it on a playdate, they can easily transmit it to their grandmother as easily as touching the same doorknob or countertop. Scientists measure the spread of an epidemic by a number called R0, or R naught. That number is calculated this way: for every person who develops the illness, how many other people do they give it to before they are cured (or dead) and no longer infectious? The R0 for coronavirus appears to be a number close to 3 an extremely frightening number for such a deadly disease. Suppose you catch the virus. You will give it to 3 other people, and they will each give it to three others, and so forth. Here is how the math works, wh ere you, the index case, are the first line: 1 3 9 27 81 243 729 2,187 6,561 19,683 59,046 177,147 531,441 1,594,323 4,782,969 14,348,907 So, in just 15 steps of transmission, the virus has gone from just one index case to 14.3 million other people. Those 15 steps might take only a few weeks. With school out and lots of playdates, maybe less. The first person may be a young and healthy Brookline child, but many of those 14 million people will be old and sick, and they will likely die because they got a virus that started in one person's throat. R0 is not fixed it can be lowered by control measures. If we can get the number below 1, the epidemic will die out. This is the point of the quarantines and social distancing, but we are not doing it fast enough. In the US, we have to slow down the virus. American hospitals, Boston hospitals, have limited resources. We have a fixed number of ventilators and an impending calamity on our hands. Our Italian critical care colleagues have shared with us that they simply do not have enough resources (ventilators, physicians and nurse, critical care beds), and are forced to choose who lives and dies based on old tenets of wartime triage. Older patients do not even get a ventilator and die of their pneumonia. These are decisions nobody should have to face, and we are only 11 days behind Italy’s fate. Their hospitals are quite advanced, and we are no better in Boston. As doctors, we are desperately trying to prepare for the onslaught of patients in the coming weeks. It is already beginning. This is an opportunity for you as the district leadership the time to be aggressive and help us fight this by Flattening the Curve. We implore you, as a group of Boston’s doctors preparing to fight this, to help us. Please send a new email to ALL the Brookline school district families. Social distancing is painful. We know that kids have cabin fever, they are pleading to see their friends, they may have birthday parties coming up or special events they have been looking forward to. All of us need to work and childcare is a big worry. But we need to overcome these issues and boredom for the coming weeks so that we can survive this with as few deaths as possible. What does that mean? 1) No playdates, not even 1:1. 2) No small gatherings, no meetings between a couple families, even for birthday parties. 3) Avoid trampoline parks, climbing gyms, restaurants, movie theaters, anything in an enclosed area. Many of these places are advertising increased cleaning and hygiene. This is not sufficient! Do not go. 4) Cancel planned vacations for the next month. Avoid airline travel that is not an emergency. Many airlines and rental agencies are offering penalty-free cancellations. 5) Stay at home as much as possible. Work from home if you possibly can. You may have to go buy groceries and medicine, of course, but make the trips quick and purposeful. 6) Wash your hands thoroughly after you have been in public places, for a full 20 seconds, soaping up thoroughly and being sure to get between the fingers. 7) Please avoid disseminating social media claims that the situation is not serious or is being exaggerated. This is a national crisis and conveying misinformation to your friends and family may put their lives in danger. Thank you for taking the time to read this and stay safe and healthy in the coming weeks. Respectfully, Erika Rangel, MD, Director of Surgical Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Shawn Rangel, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston Asaf Bitton, MD, Executive Director Ariadne Labs, and Internal Medicine, BWH Daniel O'Connor, MD, Pediatrics, Longwood Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Boston Beth O’Connor, MD, Pediatrics, Roslindale Pediatrics Vandana Madhavan, MD, Clinical Director of Pediatric Infectious Disease, MGH Parag Amin, MD, Pediatrics, Centre Pediatrics Christy Cummings, MD, Neonatology, Children’s Hospital Boston Eric Bluman, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, BWH Trim ble Augur, MD, Internal Medicine, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center Dasha Weir, MD, Pediatric gastroenterology Amy Evenson Warren, Transplant Surgery, BIDMC William Oldham, MD, Ph.D., Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, BWH James Kryzanski, MD, Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center Ben Zendejas-Mummert, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston Johanna Iturrino Moreda, MD, Gastroenterology, BIDMC David Berg, MD, Cardiology and Cardiac Critical Care, BWH Jennifer Crombie, MD, Hematology-Oncology, BWH Jenifer Lightdale, MD, Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology, U Mass Memorial Hospital Wayne Tworetzky, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston Elaine Yu, MD, Endocrinology Jonathan Li, Infectious Disease Nancy Cho, MD, Surgical Oncology, BWH Eric Sheu, MD, Minimally Invasive Surgery, BWH Reza Askari, MD, Director, Surgical Critical Care, BWH Cindy Lien, MD, Internal Medicine, and Palliative Care, BIDMC Hannah Parker, MD, OB/GYN Alysa E. Doyle, Ph.D., Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH Christopher Smith, MD, Internal Medicine, Charles River Medical Associates, Wellesley, MA Maya Greer, NP, Children’s Hospital Boston Rusty Jennings, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston Emily Oken, MD, Professor of Population Medicine, BWH Chinwe Ukomadu, MD, Head of Clinical Hepatology, Novartis Jennifer Kaufman, MD, Internal Medicine, BWH Ann Poduri, MD, MPH, Pediatric Neurology Susan Yehle Ritter, MD, Rheumatology Diego Martinucci, MD Psychiatry, Atrius Health Shih-Ning Liaw, MD, Pediatric Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital Wolfram Goessling, MD, Gastroenterology, and Oncology, MGH Paola Daza, Pediatrics, MGH Juan Matute, Neonatology, MGH John Ross, MD, Internal Medicine, BWH Megan Sandel, MD, Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center Kathy Calvillo, MD, Surgery, BWH Christine Greco, MD, Anesthesia, Children’s Hospital Boston Niteesh Choudhry, MD, Ph.D., Internal Medicine, BWH and Harvard T.H. Chand School of Public Health Chandru Krishnan, MD, Ophthalmology, Tufts Medical Center Amy Ship, MD, Internal Medicine, Associate Director of Medical Education, Atrius Health Yen-Lin Evely

DEAR FRIENDS IN THE DHAMMA, VENTURA BUDDHIST STUDY CENTER @ AN LAC MISSION AND TIBC HAVE POSTPONED ALL OUR MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY , FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY CLASSES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THAT SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES HELP ALL OF US TO HANDLE THIS KIND OF SITUATION WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE THIS SERVICE DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE CURRENT SITUATION.... LET US CONTINUE OUR MEDITATION PRACTICE AND YOGA ASANA BY OURSELVES AT OUR HOMES WHENEVER POSSIBLE. LET US MAKE A COLLECTIVE WISH TO BE ABLE TO GET BACK TO OUR PRACTICE OF MEDITATION, YOGA, AND TAI CHI IN FEW WEEKS. THANK YOU. https://www.gov.ca.gov//california-public-health-experts/

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