Victory Celebration…The 6th V-Star Change the World... When millions of children came to do good deeds at Dhammakaya Temple, what happened?
Kathina Robe Offering is a wonderful Buddhist tradition that has been preserved for over 2500 years since the Lord Buddha’s time.
Kathina is a special event to accumulate tremendous merits that Buddhists eagerly look forward to each year. It is one of the more difficult merits to perform as compared to other merits due to the following reasons.
The Rain Retreat had not existed yet during the initial years of Buddhism. Therefore, throughout any given year, when a monk needs to visit the people in order to teach Dhamma, the journey was made when time permitted.
Venerable Luang Phaw sir, I am curious why Thailand, a country made up mainly of Buddhists and Buddhism provides so many valuable teachings, has a lesser economic growth than the western countries?
She was born in an agricultural society. Her dad’s main job was rice farming and he had a side job by setting a group of female dancers but the financial situation of family was not good at all. Her mom was in a hardship to keep the family members surviving. At the same time, her mom had a suffering from a promiscuous husband and finally addicted to alcohol.Later on, she had a Germany husband and by accident, she had met with a DMC group. The path of merit earning has accrued.
There are two types of previously accumulated merit:
In this Appendix we delve al little deeper into the meaning of the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta. The Dhaamacakkapavattana Sutta itself is a very brief teaching because it serves merely as a reminder to listeners who were already well versed in the materials covered
Very often I felt like surrendering and didn’t understand why the more merit I made the more degrading my life was until I became penniless. I felt as if I was in the dark. However, no matter how bad it was I would not give in and I chose to fight to my death. I changed from being downhearted to taking up the challenge. Finally I found out the best solution was not to think about it and to motivate myself to keep on making merit with an assurance that one day the merit will certainly yield fruit.
Dhammakaya California Temple arranged the picked-up robes ceremony since the Magha Puja Day.
