The First Dhamma Seminar for OBEC, Thailand
It is wonderful news for Thai children when Education Minister and his team realize the importance of Dhamma. Thai education will be brighter and brighter when teachers become the merit models for their students.
What is the most important belief for monks?
Answer by Law of Kamma :- I blamed the congregations of the temple because I misunderstood
An audience blamed the congregations of the temple because he misunderstood. What can he do to relieve this retribution?
The Bachelorette
Every first Sunday of each month and on the days the temple had big ceremonies; and every time I attended the ceremony of offering sustenance to the Lord Buddha and of other big merit of the temple, I made wishes “May I own a house with land and a car.” Later on, my grandfather bought me a car when I did not even ask him for it. And a couple surprised things that happened to me. All my wishes were accomplished. This incident seriously strengthens my faith in merit.
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering # 3
Mindfulness of the dhammas in the dhammas is to see and consider the mental phenomena both inside and outside, the whole of the time
The Noble Truth of Suffering : 2. Suffering as a result of Aging [jara dukkha]
The lord Buddha defined Suffering resulting from aging as the form of suffering that has the characteristic of deterioration of the bodily organs and faculties such alarming symptoms as the hair turning grey
The Blood Donation
An audience has a question about the blood donation. Luang Phaw Datta has answered these questions.
Selling Poverty
My brother in law had kidney failure, but he did not want to have treatment because he wanted to save money to make donations for the kathin ceremony at the hometown temple. He said that my sister wanted to make a donation for this kathin ceremony but she died before she could do it. He was afraid that when he wanted to make a donation, he would also die before having the opportunity. Why is it so difficult to make this merit? "You can see that we have to make merit quickly. We should not wait."
Conversation of Dhamma To The Occasion.
Actually a human has to face lot of problems in his/her life, which have to be solved with wisdom {Panna}. Therefore humans need wisdom.
Commentorial Metaphors: Indulgence in sensual pleasures:
A pig content to wallow in dung: Indulging in sensual pleasures is rather like a pig, which spends all its life wallowing in the warm mud and dung of its pigsty because it thinks that this is the ultimate happiness.