A Transdimensional Fellowship for the Liberation of Beings
The Gautama Dhamma Society is a living, transdimensional Sangha, extending beyond Earth into the higher worlds where luminous disciples of the Buddha still preserve the genuine teachings (saddhamma). Our presence on Earth is part of this larger network of wisdom-keepers, ensuring that the path to Nibbāna-dhātu — the deathless realm beyond the universe — remains open to all who seek it.
Bhante Muditā, a member of this greater fellowship, serves as a bridge to transmit Gautama Buddha’s true path into this new age — not merely as a historical memory but as a living, verifiable path of practice. His mission is clear:
- Restore the Buddha’s Path — Sīla, Samādhi, and Paññā — as the direct gateway to Nibbāna-dhātu.
- Protect the Purity of the Dhamma from distortion, dilution, and cultural overlays.
- Guide Mankind to transcend Saṃsāra and reclaim its manussa heritage, the spark that leads beyond the universe.
Our Presence in Canada
Rooted in Ontario, Canada, Bhante lives in a forested refuge for silent retreat, ethical living, and meditative training. Bhante also extends his Dhamma teaching through Buddhist College of Canada in Wutai Shan Buddhist Garden. His presence serves as a node in a cosmic fellowship — linking practitioners here with the greater Sangha of luminous disciples across worlds.
Our work balances solitude and community, faith and wisdom, discipline and compassion, offering a setting where both monastics and lay practitioners can deepen their practice and purify the citta (mind) for the path that leads beyond aging and death.
Our Vision
To establish a living Theravāda ecosystem that is both local and cosmic — rooted in the forest tradition, guided by the Vinaya, grounded in the Pāli Canon, and directed toward Nibbāna-dhātu. This ecosystem serves as a refuge and training ground for anyone who is ready to walk the path of disenchantment (nibbidā), dispassion (virāga), and liberation (vimutti).
Our Core Commitments
Safeguarding the Path Across Worlds
The Gautama Dhamma Society anchors its work in three great streams of practice — Vinaya, Canon, and Meditative Training — ensuring that Gautama Buddha’s dispensation remains a living, verifiable path to Nibbāna-dhātu.
📜 1. Upholding the Pāli Canon
We commit to preserving and transmitting the Buddha’s words with clarity and integrity. This includes:
- Deep Textual Study: Guiding monastics and lay practitioners to engage with the suttas and Vinaya as living instructions, not mere historical texts.
- Faithful Translation: Producing accurate, careful translations into contemporary languages while retaining key Pāli terms, ensuring that the liberative meaning is never lost or diluted.
- Doctrinal Clarity: Actively clarifying misconceptions that have arisen through cultural overlays or later accretions, restoring the Dhamma to its pristine purpose — liberation from Saṃsāra.
🪷 2. Maintaining the Spirit of the Vinaya
The Vinaya is the living architecture of the Buddha’s dispensation — a framework for purifying life-energy and creating a field of harmony in which awakening can unfold. We commit to:
- Upholding Celibacy and Simplicity: Guarding the brahmacariya and cultivating detachment from material excess and sensuality.
- Adapting Without Dilution: Skillfully using modern tools (finance, technology, infrastructure) to support survival and practice — never to fuel indulgence or worldliness.
- Creating a Conducive Sangha: Supporting a pure and harmonious monastic community where discipline (sīla) forms the foundation for meditative power and liberating wisdom.
🧘 3. Reviving Meditative Training
We affirm the inseparable union of samatha and vipassanā as the Buddha’s original meditative path. Our commitment is to:
- Guide Practitioners Through Stages of Liberation: Leading students step by step through Sīla → Samādhi → Paññā, culminating in Nibbidā → Virāga → Vimutti.
- Develop Profound Samādhi: Restoring jhāna practice as a cornerstone of mental purification and as the doorway to higher insight.
- Integrate Insight (Vipassanā): Directly observing impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self, leading to disenchantment and release.
🌸 4. Supporting the Bhikkhunī Saṅgha
We fully affirm the Buddha’s original vision of a fourfold assembly. The Society supports the revival and recognition of the Bhikkhunī Order, ensuring that women can fully participate in monastic training and contribute to the preservation of the Saddhamma.
🌍 5. Bridging Worlds — Ancient & Modern, Human & Higher
Our work is both rooted and expansive. We honor the ancient forest tradition while adapting its forms to today’s realities — offering digital education, retreat programs, and intentional lay practice models that support liberation without compromise.
This bridging function is not merely cultural but transdimensional: connecting practitioners here on Earth with the greater Sangha across worlds, aligning with the luminous current of disciples who have preserved the Saddhamma for millennia.
Fellowship
For he whose freedom of mind is not fully mature, a bhikkhu need to have a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade. For he whose freedom of mind is not fully mature, this is the first thing that leads to maturity.
当心的解脱尚未成熟之时，比丘要有善友与善同伴。这是心去向成熟第一件要做的事情。
— Ud.4:1;A.9:3
we are living in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kind eyes. We are different in body, but one in mind. we abide diligent, ardent, and resolute. Every five days we sit together all night discussing the Dhamma.
友谊能让我们生欣喜，因欣喜而生喜悦，因喜悦而身轻安，因身轻安而有乐，因乐而心定。如此我们于身心之中可修习诸根、诸力及诸觉支。我们就这样和合相处，彼此和谐无争，如水乳交融，互以和善之眼相视而住。我们在一起不放逸、精勤、自制地生活。我们每五日会共坐彻夜谈法。— Vin.Mv.10:4
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