In the future my children will have to run the business for me. I’d like to ask for Luang Phaw’s mercy to give me some principles of Dhamma or viewpoints that I can teach them.
Differrences arise as we grow up and start to recognize the variation in nationality, religion, race, skin colour, social status, appearance, etc.
I would like to ask you why people like to do bad deeds, even though they know that it is not good. And how can we correct this?
She was born in the family that everybody accomplished in their life. Her father is a smart and well-educated people. Her mother has a very high IQ. Her sister always gets the first place of the class. However, she is different and looks like a looser among the winners. Even her marriage did not go smoothly. She has many suffering. Only her grandmother gave her an encouragement. Once her grandmother passed away, she intended to do the merit for her grandmother for one year. Then she will commit suicide. Fortunately, she found DMC before she did that.
Meditation will help us understand and come to terms with the loss of a loved one. With wisdom, we learn that loss is natural.
When my husband was young, he drank and smoked a lot. One day, he coughed and was unconscious. His body was cold and I was frightened. After he regained consciousness, he said to me “Please go to pay respects to Luang Pu and King Rama V.” Later, he was able to quit smoking and drinking. Why did my husband do so after he regained consciousness? What did he see?
After Dhammakaya Temple had offered 250 Buddha statues to the temples in Bangladesh, Dhammakaya temple cooperated with many Bangladesh organization to arrange the 1st World-PEC contest in Bangladesh and it was successful. Yes! It is the first step of the real world peace.
I had a strong feeling that I'd gain a lot of benefits from meditation and what I thought was right. From the very first moments I was there, I felt unbelievable joy and did not feel any worries. Being a part of this meditation program has been such an amazing experience.
Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this true?
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."
