What is the importance of blessings, and how one bestows blessings?
In Thai tradition, on important days like New Year’s Day, or other auspicious days, younger generations always pay respect and ask for blessings from their elders. I’d like to ask Luang Phaw the importance of blessings, and how one bestows blessings.
When Merits Depleted, I Went Broke
Since he was born, his life was magnificent and comfortable. His family was ranked as a moderately wealthy family of Taoyuan, from selling alcohol and cigarettes. The comfort he received was a result of the destruction of others. What are the Karma of doing this? DMC has the answers.
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.
วันคุ้มครองโลกที่แท้จริงคืออะไร คนทั้งโลกให้ความสำคัญกับวันคุ้มครองโลกอย่างไร
หากเราจะมาพูดถึงวันคุ้มครองโลก โลกของเราจะได้รับความคุ้มครองจริงๆ อย่างไร เริ่มต้นตรงไหน เราจะทำอย่างไรให้เรา และโลกได้รับความคุ้มครองอย่างแท้จริง . . .
Complete Criteria in Giving
Today, most people are inclined to put their faith in science above anything else. However, science can only prove what the eyes can see
When the monks go for the offering rounds, can they wear a pair of sandals?
I would like to ask about when the monks go for the offering rounds; can they wear a pair of sandals? For nowadays some areas are not suited to walk bare footed.
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Generosity (6)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fifth Group of Blessings. Blessing Fifteen :- Generosity.
Meditation improve physical and emotional responses to psychological stress
New York considers calls for smoking ban in parks, beaches
In the case where the judge sentences the murderer to death, but does not execute the culprit him/herself, is s/he regarded as violating the first precept him/herself?
