Question and Answer for Life

The Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun kindly answered the questions about the white lie and the drunks. Don't miss it!! Question and Answer for Life     By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun Edited from the Luang Phaw answers the questions program broadcasted on DMC Q1:  Those who often do the white lie; will they get any sin? Q2:  If I want to keep the 8 precept all the time but I have to meet the customers and take them to the entertainment places, how should I do? Question:  The 4th precept is about the lying.  ..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

Dhamma for People. Merit from offering drinking water to the Lord Buddha. Merit from Offering Drinking Water to the Lord Buddha Edited from Dhamma for People Program broadcasted on DMC   Due to the merit I have accumulated, my skin is beautiful and all my wishes have come true. Moreover, all my treasures have come to me because of my merit. To reach nirvana is the ultimate goal of every life. No matter whether you’re a king, a millionaire, a poor person or an animal, every living being in this..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

The question from an audience: "I put poisoned food around my house. The mice ate it and died. Did I break the first precept? I never forced those mice to eat that food anyway." What do you think? Read the answer by Phrabhavanaviriyakhun, the vice abbot of Dhammakaya Temple. Question and Answer for Life     By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun (Luang Phaw Dattajivo)   Question: I have a problem concerning mice around my house. The local municipality provided intoxicant for the public to deal with this problem. I myself received some of it. I mixed that intoxicant with rice and put it around my house. Occasionally the mice ate it and died.   My question is that whether I broke the f..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

Phrabhavanaviriyakhun, the vice abbot of Dhammkaya Temple, kindly answered this question: If you drink to keep you warm, does it break the five precept? Click to read his answer! Question and Answer for Life   By Phrabhavanaviriyakhun       Question: In the European countries, the weather is very cold. Thus, there is a necessity to drink alcohol to keep the body warm. And if you drink alcohol to keep the physical body warm, is it considers as breaking the five precepts?   Answer: From the positive viewpoint, there are some arguments that exist in the medical field such..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

If someone does the bad offering, what will he get from this bad offering? Luang Phaw has the answer. Question and Answer for Life       By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun Edited from the Luang Phaw Answers the Questions program broadcasting on DMC Q1:  In the morning alms round, if someone usually offers only rice to the monks, what will he get in this life and next lifetimes? Q2:  If someone makes merit and makes a wish that he wants to be celibate through his life, his wish will be come true, is it..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

If someone had killed animals for cooking food for monk like the Story of the Chicken Stars, what did they get, merit or sin? The Story of the Chicken Stars Question and Answer for Life       By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun Edited from the Luang Phaw Answers the Questions program broadcasting on DMC Questions:  If someone had killed animals for cooking food for monk, the monk would got some sin as well, is it correct? Like the story of the Chicken Stars, Grand Pa and Grand Ma had cooked the chicken curry intentionally to o..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

An audience has a question about the blood donation. Luang Phaw Datta has answered these questions. Question and Answer for Life By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun Edited from the Luang Phaw Answers the Questions program broadcasting on DMC Q1:  The blood donation is one way to make merit. Is it correct? Question:  The blood donation is one way to make merit.  Is it correct?  If yes, what is the fruit of the blood donation? Answers:  Absolutely! It is the way to make merit and is in th..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

An example effect of the ceremony of pouring water to dedicate merit to the dead people. Question and Answer for Life       By the Most Ven. Phrabhavanaviriyakhun Edited from the Luang Phaw Answers the Questions program broadcasting on DMC Questions:  When someone had made merit but he didn’t do the ceremony of pouring water to dedicate the merit to the dead people, would the dead ones receive the merit? Answers:  It is rather true because the ceremony of pouring water to dedicate merit is ..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

I have my own business, I have to take care of many employees. I’d like to ask Luang Phaw what I shall do to have the underlings’ love.   Question: Dear venerable, since I have my own business, I have to take care of many employees. I’d like to ask Luang Phaw what I shall do to have the underlings’ love.    Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku   Actually it’s not difficult to take people’s love. First of all, we should have a capability to govern our own minds. How can we govern our minds? Governing our own minds means keeping our mi..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

As a mother, I have taken great care in teaching my children about virtues, but children these days need to have good reasons. So they often would ask me a question in return concerning the standard one would use to measure good and bad? I am unable to answer their question sufficiently, so I ask you, Luangphaw, to help provide a definition to the word karma? How many ways can one acquire karma? What are the determining factors?   Question: Venerable Luangphaw Sir, as a mother, I have taken great care in teaching my children about virtues, but children these days need to have good reasons.  So they often would ask me a question in return concerning the standard one would use to measure good and bad?  I am unable to answer their question sufficiently, so I ask you, Luangphaw, to help provide a definition to the word karma?  How many ways can ..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

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.   Question: Venerable Luang Por, Sir, 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.       Answer    by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku        Dear benefact..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

Why the color of monks’ robes is always either yellow or reddish brown? A foreigner once asked me this question and I could not answer him.    Question: Venerable Luang Phaw, Sir, I would like to ask why the color of monks’ robes is always either yellow or reddish brown. A foreigner once asked me this question and I could not answer him.     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku     Daughter, in Lord Buddha’s times, the color of monks’ robes was uneven. The reason was in those days, people used wood and tree rubber to dye c..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

The benefit of making great merit and offering alms to monks and monastic communities  Question: Venerable Luang Phaw Sir, How can I explain to my foreign friends who have different religious backgrounds to understand merit? How can I show them the benefits of cultivating merits? And how can I persuade them to cultivate merits?    Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku   Daughter, this happens not only with foreigners who have different beliefs but also among Buddhists. Qui..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

The present society is facing increased problems of children lacking gratitude for their parents. Do you have any recommendations in teaching our children to become good and grateful people? Question: Dear venerable Luang Phaw, the present society is facing increased problems of children lacking gratitude for their parents.  Do you have any recommendations in teaching our children to become good and grateful people?   Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku   The fact that the current children are not grateful to their parents and elders is due to these two points. 1. They cannot recognize the kindness ..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

You once taught us that having gratitude generates wisdom. I would like to ask how wisdom occurs. Question: Dear venerable Luang Phaw Dattajivo, you once taught us that having gratitude generates wisdom.  I would like to ask how wisdom occurs.     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku     Gratitude is the initial and important source that will lead to one’s wisdom.  I’d like to give you an example.  Phra Sariputta, the right-hand preeminent disciple of Lord Buddha, was praised for his exc..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

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.   Question: Dear Luang Phaw, 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.     Answer  by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku       It’s good that you ask me this question. Most parents who own businesses hope that their children can run the business after them, but s..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

What is the principle of good people network building that the Lord Buddha gave us?   Question: Venerable, what is the principle of good people network building that the Lord Buddha gave us?     Answer  by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku        There are 4 principles of good people network building with 4 short terms; namely, give, give, give and give. Is it clear? Everybody has some deficiencies in their minds. Even we also have deficiencies. What are these deficiencies? ..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

Hearing Luang Phaw mentioned about Dhamma Dana (The Gift of Dhamma), I would like to ask Luang Phaw why the Lord Buddha said “The Gift of Dhamma beats all other donations.”     Question:  Hearing Luang Phaw mentioned about Dhamma Dana (The Gift of Dhamma), I would like to ask Luang Phaw why the Lord Buddha said “The Gift of Dhamma beats all other donations.”    Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku      Good question. Why did the Lord Buddha specially emphasize about Gift of Dhamma by saying “Sabbha Danang Dhamma Danang Jinati” which meant The gift of Dhamma w..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

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.   Question: Venerable Luangphor sir, 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.     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku      The truth is, Buddhist monks, whether they’re ordaining for l..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

How should Buddhists carry themselves during the Buddhist Lent season so that they can achieve the maximum merit?   Question: Venerable LuangPhor sir, how should Buddhists carry themselves during the Buddhist Lent season so that they can achieve the maximum merit? Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku During the Buddhist Lent season, new and seasoned monks reside together in one place.  This arrangement of having monks reside together in one place provides an auspicious situation for the laypeople.  In what way?  The ri..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

This period of the year is known as the Buddhist Lent season or rainy retreat. I would like to know the historical background of this religious event and the activities of monks during these months.   Question: Venerable Luangphor, this period of the year is known as the Buddhist Lent season or rainy retreat.  I would like to know the historical background of this religious event and the activities of monks during these months.       Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku There are numerous historical accounts on how the Buddhist Lent season came to be.  In the beginning of the Buddha Era, Bud..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

If we are to promote anyone to a supervisory level, what are the required qualities? Question: Luang Phaw, if we are to promote anyone to a supervisory level, what are the required qualities?     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku The principle of promoting someone to a supervisory level is not too difficult. Ok let’s listen to the principles first. There are 2 principles as follows: 1.That person should not be prejudiced. If the person is biased, no matter how skillful the person is, he..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

In Thai tradition, on important days like New Year’s Day, or other auspicious days, younger generations always pay respect and ask for blessings from their elders. I’d like to ask Luang Phaw the importance of blessings, and how one bestows blessings.   Question: In Thai tradition, on important days like New Year’s Day, or other auspicious days, younger generations always pay respect and ask for blessings from their elders. I’d like to ask Luang Phaw the importance of blessings, and how one bestows blessings.        Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku  Before addressing on the importance of blessings, we must understand what blessing means. T..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

I’d like to ask you about an old tradition of Thai society that urges children to prostrate themselves at their parents’ feet before going to bed. How does this tradition help develop children’s virtue? If the people of the present time would like to reintroduce that tradition, where can they begin?   Question: Venerable Luang Phaw, I’d like to ask you about an old tradition of Thai society that urges children to prostrate themselves at their parents’ feet before going to bed.  How does this tradition help develop children’s virtue? If the people of the present time would like to reintroduce that tradition, where can they begin?     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku  This question comes at the ri..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ 

If donating blood gives us a lot of merits, will donating our body after we die to a hospital help us accrue even more merits?   Question: Venerable Luang Phaw Sir; if donating blood gives us a lot of merits, will donating our body after we die to a hospital help us accrue even more merits?     Answer by Venerable Dhattajeevo Bhikku    You must understand first that whatever merits you are to perform; you must be alive to perform them, and not wait to perform them after you are dead. This is because the field of merits builds up o..... อ่านเรื่องQuestion and Answer for Lifeต่อ