Offering food to the monks

The Middle Way Meditation Retreat

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November 13th 2006
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect for my week long meditation retreat in Chang Mai. I took a taxi to Wat Phra Dhammakaya (the temple we’d be leaving from in Bangkok) around 6pm on Sunday evening. I found my way into the office of The Middle Way, the foundation running the retreat. We left in vans around 8pm with all the equipment for the week and all of the volunteers and staff. I was ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more