I have heard that some people commit adultery for a variety of reasons. They may want a different life. They may live their lives following other people’s standards.
By ordaining, you have the precious opportunity to live in an environment free of the boundaries of daily life, spend time with yourself, and purify your mind through meditation.
A good neighborhood is essential for living in peace. If our neighborhoods are noisy, dangerous, hot, do not have trees, and are crowded, we will not live in physical peace.
As human beings, we have to live and work with others in society. We negatively affect society when we consider only what we want, what we like, and what we can accomplish.
While we are all born with a mind and a body, and we live in a similar environment, haven’t we all wondered why there are so many differences in abilities and talents among people?
He was the second of 11 children. When he was born, he had abscesses on his head. He almost did not survive. His mother was very sick after delivering him. So his father had his maternal grandmother raise him from infancy until he was grown.
Everyone born into the world has the greatest of intentions to live a decent life no-one wants to make a mess of their lives. Even a criminal doesn't particularly want to live his life dishonestly, but he thinks that being a criminal is good enough it's a good shortcut in earning one's living thus why not be a criminal. Having become a criminal. it is only later that he finds out that being a criminal is no good, but by then it's too late he can't change his mind or his life and ends up being a criminal for the rest of his life. Thus you can conclude that although everyone would like to be good, not everyone manages to live out their wishes.
In the book Thirty-eight Universal Steps to Eternal Happiness, compiled for the summer program for ordained monks by the Venerable teacher Monk Somchai Tanavuddho,
Living in peace is the way that we practice what we should do to others and ourselves with right understanding. Those who practice the teaching of each chapter in this book wisely or bring the teaching to their daily life practice will live in peace without worry.
The story of one woman whose parent divorced when she was an infant. Her mother was bitterly despairing of her present love life and so drank and flirted. She had to live with her aunt and take a killing cow orders for 7 years. What should she do to be free from the retributions? DMC has the answer.
