#watmetta

Hi there UBAers!! Sorry for the spam, but some news! Southern California University Buddhist Associations (SCUBA) will be having our annual inter school retreat at Wat Metta. Come join UBA as well as the Buddhist orgs of UCLA UCI and Dharma Seals for an amazing event!!

The event takes place in celebration of Kathina, a tradition celebrated in Buddhism since the time of the Lord Buddha Himself. Kathina refers to the embroidery frame that monks used to sow their robes. When the Sangha started out, monks were only permitted to used the cloth remaining on cadavers to make their robes. However, as the number of monks increased, it became increasingly difficult to locate abandoned cloth. As a result, faithful laypeople sought to offer new robes to the monks. This led the Lord Buddha to establish the Kathina ceremony. The ceremony takes place at the end of Buddhist lent, and is restricted by time, making the offering of robes an ever more significant act of generosity. 

SCUBA makes the trip to Wat Metta so we can practice generosity and learn Buddhism from the temple's world famous monks and Pali experts as well as bond with our fellow club members and sister clubs. 

If you want to attend contact our officers through the FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ucsdUBA/

or through our contact info available on our website http://uba.ucsd.edu/contact.html

Well UBA followers heres a quick recap of our first GBM of the year! 

 We started off with some snacks and some friendly meet and greet introduction followed by an introduction of our club. We outlined our clubs mission statement, our goals, what we do and some of our activities! We did a mindful listening exercise followed up with some discussion and a guided meditation at the end! :)

For those who missed it, some of our future events include future GBMs and Student Sanghas, the schedules of which can be found on our club website or FB group/page. As well as some other fun events including a trip to Deer Park Monastery to see the Venerable Thich Naht Hahn next weekend, and our Wat Metta Southern CA University Buddhist Associations (SCUBA) retreat the weekend of Oct 27th. 

Again for information on the future events feel free to contact us online at http://uba.ucsd.edu/ and on our FB group at http://www.facebook.com/ucsdUBA for more information.