Giving and forgiving is a key to making friendships and making relationships. There should be no resentment of any mistakes or misunderstandings occur in relationships.
The Lord Buddha stresses that the three categories of defilement: greed, hatred and delusion are like usurpers in the mind. They darken our minds and obstruct us from enlightenment.
The nature of a mind is always thinking and wandering. Normally one’s mind is often unconscious and indulges in the five sensual pleasures namely: forms, odors, sounds and tangible objects that usually tempt one to do bad deeds with his/her body, speech and mind.
All of the parents in the world want their children to be clever. The cleverer they are the more the parents will be proud of them. How to raise the children to be clever is not easy because there are different categories of cleverness
Magha Puja is one of the most important Buddhist holy days in Thailand. Each of the 30,000 Buddhist temples across the nation has its own ceremony. The ceremony at Wat Phra Dhammakaya is one of the largest held in Thailand. Enjoy the pictures taken from the event on February 28th, 2010.
Meditation to attain the Dhammakaya has restrained me from having bad thoughts. When I have bad thoughts, I can clear them out very quickly before I end up feeling sorry about doing bad deeds or saying bad words.
Sustainable Ethical Development Program
“(I count amongst my) noble disciples those who have the self-discipline to refrain from the Four Defilements of Action, who restrain themselves from the Four Forms of Bias and who do not indulge in the Six Directions…”
Those who have refined minds can foresee that resources in this world are limited. They try to share their incomes with other people in the society, nation, and the world for the benefit of each individual as just as possible.
To protect children from bad situations occurring in the family, you must train the children to be good
