A participating monk gave an interviewed that he participates in this ceremony almost every year and when he saw lots of monks gathering together, he was overwhelming with joy because it showed the strength of Buddhism, so he would like to thank Luang Phaw Dhammajayo very much.
I initiated many friends into the practice of Dhammakaya meditation. They asked me why there are so many methods of meditation and why all the traditions claim that their method is the best. I would like to know how I should explain this issue to them.
It is a tradition to have our children ordain for the duration of the Buddhist Lent season so that they can study Buddhism. I would like to know if they gain more merit from their studies during this period than ordination at other times.
We have always known that the Lord Buddha’s teachings contain a total of 84,000 topics. For me as a school teacher, I would like to ask which parts of the Teachings I should lecture to the school students at the primary and secondary levels.
An audience has the dark brown skin. She would like to know the relation of human color skin and retribution. We present it in the aspect of religion, not for the racial discrimination. Even if you are White, Yellow, or Black, you still have the even chance to attain Dhamma, especailly Dhammakaya.
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?
We would like to clarify to all of you that Dhammakaya Foundation India is NOT affiliated with Dhammakaya Foundation, Thailand. Since we already negotiated with them to end up this improper action until they complied with us. Now, we have found that there is no progress on this issue at all.
Chinese only wanted sons and grandsons to carry on the family’s name. They stuffed ashes into daughters' mouth and left them to die. What kamma caused her mother’s sisters to be killed at birth like this? What merit saved her mom from being killed? What bad result will the murderer receive? DMC has the answers.
One day after she got off work, she walked across the road without looking for oncoming cars, she put one step forward. Unexpectedly, she felt like someone pushed her back to the median. In that blink of an eye, a car ran passed right in front of her. Is there something or someone helped her?
I invited my friend to the temple for meditation. He wondered why our temple does not have walking meditation. On top of that, he would like to know why there is someone leading us through the instructions with his voice while we are supposed to be seated quietly during the sitting meditation?
