When talking of our environment, the Lord Buddha meant both the people that surround us and the natural environment that surrounds us:
In the previous chapter we defined the meaning of ‘friends’ as those in whom we invest time, energy and respurces for example, someone with whom we associate regularly, working together or at least in the same place. In fact, such a definition is only a small part of a much wider scope of meaning covered by the word ‘friend’
1,000,000 V-Star children will gather to do good deeds at Dhammakaya Temple on Saturday December 11th, 2010. It is not easy to gather 1,000,000 children especially for doing good deeds. Is it the beginning of world peace in the future?
I told my husband to get a divorce. After that, I started drinking, traveling the whole night, and having about 20 lovers because I wanted to sadden many guys.But finally, the nightmare that haunted me for a long time was over. I met an ideal husband.
The benefit of making great merit and offering alms to monks and monastic communities
In preaching the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, the Buddha revealed the Thirty-Seven Factors of Enlightenment [bodhipakkhiyadhamma],
The Middle Way [majjhima patipada] is a path of practice that avoids the extremes of either sensual indulgence or self-mortification
Bat Ti San Tan means “greeting”. It means that you know how to greet a good person to come in your group
In the Lord Buddha’s first sermon to the group of five initial disciples he advocated to steer between the extremes of sensual indulgence