Answer by Law of Kamma :- The Temple Volunteer

The Temple Volunteer

 

Questions from the audience:
I am the temple volunteer.  I always do many things as the teaching monks assign.  Moreover, I often volunteer for the ceremony procession of the temple.  What will I get from these?

 

Answers:

The merit and retributions you will get from being the temple volunteer are:

1.    You will have a lot of companies.
2.    You will be around with the good and wise people.
3.    You will get some merit of all congregations who make merit at the temple in that time.
4.    You will be good–looking, rich and smart.
5.    When you pass away, you will not go to the unfortunate realms, etc.

The special merit and retributions from volunteering in the ceremony procession are:
1.    In the next lifetimes, you will have the procession coming after everywhere.
2.    If you reborn in the heaven, you will have the honorable procession coming after.
3.    When you reborn as a human, you will reborn in the noble family because the ceremony procession is done to glorify the Triple Gems.

By Khunkru Maiyai
January 23rd, 2006