Law of Kamma

A woman and her mother are loaners. They question that they will get any retribution from their occupation or not. Low–interest Loan   Questions from the audience: My mother and I are the loaners. We think that we will get merit from this occupation because our interest is less than other loaners.  After we studied Dhamma via DMC, we fear to have any retribution, so we would like to stop doing this business and do not know which occupation is better for us.  How will we get any retribution? Answer:     ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience has a question that if she sells something to the prostitutes, will she have any retribution? Sell sexy dresses   Questions from the audience:     People who have to deal with the prostitutes, example, selling sexy dresses or food to the prostitutes, will they have any retribution? Answer:     The sellers who sell sexy dresses to the prostitutes will have retribution because the wearer will arouse the viewer’s lust.  For the sellers who sell food to the prostitutes, if t..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Having long life and being healthy. Summary from case studies in the Inner Dream Kindergarten program. Having long life and being healthy   1.    Having long life        a.    He/She did not kill any animals in the previous lifetimes.        b.    He/She supported his/her relatives in the previous lifetimes.        c.    He/She was a doctor in the previous lifetimes and is a doc..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Why is he/she beautiful? Summary from many case studies in the Inner Dream program. Why is he/she beautiful?          1.    He/She is handsome or beautiful, good–looking and nice skin because        a.    In the previous lifetime he/she had donated and then made a wish to be beautiful.        b.    In the previous lifetime he/she offered the monastic robes to the monks and/or clothes to ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Father has offered his children to the Buddhism. What will happen to him? Offer his children to the temple   Questions from the audience:     My father has offered all of his children to the Buddhism.  When he becomes an old man, will he be uncomfortable?  What can I do to take care and pay back him? Answer:     Since your father has offered his children to the Buddhism, this merit will take care of him.  He will not be uncomfortable.&nb..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Questions from the audience: If a monk leaves the monkhood to marry with a girl, what will happen to him? If a monk leaves the monkhood to marry with a girl, what will happen to him?     Questions from the audience: If a monk leaves the monkhood to marry with a girl and both of them willingly marry, will they get any sin?  If either man or woman is willing to marry, how different will they get from this marriage?  If neither man nor woman is willing to marry but their parents or relatives force them to marry, what ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience would like her sons to be ordained as Buddhist monks. I would like my sons to be ordained   Questions from the audience:     I would like my three sons to be in the Dhamma way and be ordained as Buddhist monks.  What can I do to cultivate them? Answers:     You would like your sons to be ordained, you have to be the best friend, Kalayanamitra, to them and support them to be in the Dhamma way and make friend with good people.  Yo..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience had dreamt of Luang Phu before she has gone to the temple. What has caused her to dream of Luang Phu? I dreamt of Luang Phu   Questions from the audience: Before I have gone to the temple, I had dreamt of The Great Master Luang Phu Wat Paknam and the Great Master told me to make merit at Dhammakaya Temple.  What has caused me to dream of the Great Master and come to make merit at Dhammakaya Temple? And why do I usually dream of Luang Phaw?   Answer: You had dreamt of the Great Master Luang Phu and the Grea..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience has a daughter who had a closed urethra when she was born. What caused her to be like this? A Closed Urethra     Questions from the audience: When my daughter was born, she had a closed urethra that she could not discharge urine.  The doctor decided to slit to enable her to urinate.  He told me that only one in million babies had the closed urethra like this.  What caused my daughter to be like this? Answer: Your daughter had a closed urethra like this because of her retribution of ba..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Questions from an audience: Every time before I make a big merit, I have met something wrong and being worried. Why do my subordinates make me feel uneasy? What can I do to solve this problem? Bad subordinates   Questions from audience: Every time before I make a big merit, I have met something wrong and being worried.  Why do my subordinates make me feel uneasy?  What can I do to solve this problem? Answer: You have met something wrong and being worried every time before making a big merit because in the previous lifetimes before you knew the right way to make merit, you had made merit disre..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

The photo of my mother was overall black and white. Later, it has changed in color. What caused it changed? My Mother’s Photo   Questions from audience: My mother was my father’s legal wife but my father loved his concubine and his concubine’s children more than my mother and me.  This caused my mother living sadly for all her life.  She always told me that I must not have any concubine and I have promised to her.  Finally, she passed away silently. There is a strange thing about my mother’s big photo which I hav..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience asked the way to take the amulets which were not concern to the Triple Gem out of his house safely and correctly. How can I do to take the amulets out of my house safely?     Questions from audience:     I have some amulets which are not concern to the Triple Gems such as takrut, yantra cloth, and palatkhik.  How can I do to take them out of my house safely and correctly? takrut – a charm of rolled brass yantra cloth – a small piece of magic cloth palatkhik – a small wooden image of penis &nbs..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience has a question that if he makes merit for his parents before they will pass away is different from doing after they passed away, how does it differ? Making Merit For Someone Before/After His Death   Question from the audiences: If I make merit to build the Buddha image for my parents before they will pass away, it will be different from doing after they passed away, is it correct and how does it differ?   Answer: The merit of building the Buddha image before your parents will pass away is more than the merit of doing after they passed away because they ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience has questioned about the different results from writing/engraving for. (1) The Great Teachers (2) The Common People When I make merit, who I should write/engrave for Questions from the audiences: If I make merit and I write/engrave for (1)    the Great Master Phramongkolthepmuni, the Most Ven. Phrarajbhavanavisudh, or the Master Nun Chandra Khonnokyoong, (2)    common people, example, my mother The effect of (1) is different from the effect of (2). Is it correct and how does it differ?  Answer: If y..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

The questions from an audience who would like to know why her grandmother likes to use the oldies. Why she likes to use the oldies     Questions from the audience: My grandmother is economical and likes to use the oldies.  What has caused her to do like that?   Answer:   Your grandmother likes to use the oldies instead of the new things because she has regretted of her alms after she had offered since her previous lifetimes.  So regretting of offered alms has caused the donator to like t..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An audience blamed the congregations of the temple because he misunderstood. What can he do to relieve this retribution? I blamed the congregations of the temple because I misunderstood   Questions from the audience:   I saw some pictures of the Great Nun Chandra Khonnokyoong’s Burning Ceremony which there were over 100,000 congregations in the ceremony and then I said that the congregations who went to the temple had nothing to do or were ill.  I said like that because I misunderstood the temple and merit.  But now I understan..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

Why does someone be rich and have a lot of friends? Donators’ behavior       The Lord Buddha taught that there were 4 different kinds of donators’ behavior as follow. 1.    Someone has offered alms by himself but he has not persuaded others to do.  He will be rich but not have his companies in the next lifetimes.  So he will be success difficulty. 2.    Someone has persuaded others to offer but he has not done.  He will be p..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

An older brother was my hero...he was handsome, nice, and good at many things. One day he has changed....Why? My brother has changed   Questions from the audience: When I was young, my older brother was a hero in my mind.  He was handsome, nice, loved brothers and sisters, studied well and played sports and music well.  But when he was a freshman, he changed to be a bad boy.  His new society was full of bad things – cigarette, alcohol, beer, etc.  He became a drunk.  Every time he was drunk and went back home,..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

I finished undergraduate study, why I am poor....the questions from audience.... I finished undergraduate study, why I am poor   Questions from the audience:What caused me and my wife to have financial problems and the lowly occupation even we both finished undergraduate studies? Answers:You and your wife are in this situation because you were millionaires but were very sticky in the previous lifetimes.  You always paid lower salaries than they deserved, so their lives had many difficulties in those l..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

A layperson hit a girl and she passed away. What caused this accident happened? And what can the layperson do to relieve the effects in the future? Unintended Crash   Question from the audience: One day I was driving to send my children to their school.  It was raining and I was accelerating my car, suddenly there was a 16–year–old girl ran pass in front of my car.  I braked at once but my car still went on and hit her passed away.  What retribution will I get and what can I do to relieve it?  What caused this accident happened? Answers: You hit ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

When a man had passed away, according to the Buddhist custom his relatives could make merit and dedicated to him for 7 days, 50 days, and 100 days. What is the reason behind this custom?   Making merit for 7 days, 50 days and 100 days         When someone passed away, his relatives do not know where he is now.  What his relatives can do is making and dedicating merit to him.  Determine the possible case for the passed away one.   1.  If he went to the fortunate realms at once, he got the merit immediately. &..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

A woman who would like to know why her husband had many pieces of land but rarely spend his mony from selling the land.   Questions from the audience:   Your husband had many pieces of land because he had offered land or money to buy the land many times in the previous lifetimes, but he often regretted his donating at a later time.  These effects mixed with his other bad retributions e.g. he had not paid back his debts, cause him not to or rarely spend his money in this lifetime.   By Kh..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

How does the fruit yield to donator who borrowed money to make merit?     Questions from audience: If someone who has a little money and borrows money to make merit, is it the right deed?  Will the donator get merit at once or after he gives back all debt the lender?  When the fruit by this deed yields, how is it different from the normal one? The action which is completely or partially correct by the principle depends on the exploitation.&nb..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

A woman would like to know how to relieve the bad effects caused by abortion.     Your babies were aborted because of their sin of making an abortion in the previous lifetime but it will be your new sin in this lifetime.  You would offer alms, observe the 5 precepts, meditate and make other merits and then, dedicate to them.  Do it frequently and make a wish that you would like them to forgive and all, you and your babies, will not have any bad retributions at ..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ 

There are many kinds of Sprite. What is the fact about the Sprite House in Thai and Chinese Belief?      I have seen Thai Sprite House, San Phra Bhoom in Thai, and Chinese one, Tee Chu in Chinese, in many houses in Thailand.  Thai and Chinese descendants believe that the sprite living in the Sprite House can protect them and their house but they never know exactly what these sprites really are.  Is that sprite the same one in which the Lord Buddha taught?   San..... อ่านเรื่องLaw of Kammaต่อ