Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this tru
Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this true?
Indecision
While I was in my deep sleep at the back of the bus, I woke up with a jerk because a thief was taking my necklace from my neck. As I didn’t want to have problems, I got away from the thief by moving to sit in the front seat.
How can we train our descendants to be disciplined and well-organized when they grow up?
Just a Dream or The Truth
She has a weird dream for more than 10 years, someone always came and made love to her. Sometimes she frequently had this dream. Sometimes it happened once a week and sometimes once a month. , is that just a dream or is it true? Was her behavior in the dream breaking the Third Precept? DMC has the answers...
What are Sila Vata (religious or monastic precepts)? How are they different from the 5 precepts?
I heard Luang Phaw talk about Sila Vata (religious or monastic precepts). What are they? How are they different from the 5 precepts?
A Dream or the Truth
ผู้หญิงคนหนึ่ง เธอมีความฝันที่แปลกประหลาด ในความรู้สึกของเธอ เป็นความฝันกึ่งจริง...เธอฝันว่า ในเวลาที่สามีของเธอไม่อยู่ จะมีชายลึกลับ เป็นเหมือนกายละเอียด มามีความสัมพันธ์กับเธอ บางครั้งก็ฝันถี่ บางครั้งก็สัปดาห์ละครั้ง บางครั้งก็เดือนละครั้ง...เธอกังวลใจกับเรื่องนี้มาก กลัวว่า ตัวเองจะทำผิดศีลข้อที่สาม ในระยะหลังๆ เธอต้องพยายามข่มใจตัวเองทุกครั้ง เพื่อที่จะไม่ยินยอมคล้อยตาม...สิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นกับเธอเป็นอะไรกันแน่...ความฝัน หรือ ความจริง...ที่นี่ มีคำตอบ...
I Closed a Cock Fighting Business
A very wealthy man was a very generous man who loved to cultivate merits. He had been a fund-raiser for a temple for 10 years and had built so many buildings for Buddhism. However, his life changed when he turned 60 years old when suddenly he wanted to start a cock fighting business, which he ran for 20 years. Until he was 86, he had intestinal cancer and passed away. What caused him to run this business? Where did he go after he passed away? DMC has the answers.
Cock-fight
He watched a special report in DMC about the closedown of a cock-fight gambling den in Saraburi province. This made he think of his father who liked to collect the Buddha images, gambled cock-fight and watched Thai-boxing because his dad was a boxer. What retributions caused his father to be sick and went in and out of the hospital for 5 years? What retributions caused him to have eye surgery, cirrhosis, vomit blood-clots, hiccup with the sound “cock-a-doodle-doo”, and difficulty in eating and drinking water?
"Sodhmantra is external medicine and Bhavana is internal medicine." What is the concise meaning?
I would like to ask you about what the old ancient Thai people used to say regarding Sodhmantra (general Pali term for the chanting of the Lord Buddha’s Dhamma) and Bhavana (Pali term for actual meditation): “Sodhmantra is external medicine and Bhavana is internal medicine.” What is the concise meaning?
I’d like to know what principle of Dhamma can give stability to the family till the next generations?
