The 38 Ways to Happiness. The First Group of Blessings. Blessing Two :- Associate with the Wise.
My name is Koichi Enomoto. I am Japanese. As the only son, I was well looked after. I had no siblings to share and learn the intricacies of gibing and taking with, thus I didn’t know the virtue of gibing.
At a silent night, when my father was drinking in that unfinished house, he suddenly cried in suffering and wriggled as if he was being harmed. When my mother met him, he was already dead. His whole body was bruised, and nobody could tell the cause of his death
He was the second of 11 children. When he was born, he had abscesses on his head. He almost did not survive. His mother was very sick after delivering him. So his father had his maternal grandmother raise him from infancy until he was grown.
The famous resort, “Coral Resort”, has been often used for meditation retreat. On 26th December 2004, Sunday morning, it got hit by the tsunami disaster. What caused this resort to be completely destroyed and what merit should the owner do to prevent from suffering losses in the future? What past kamma caused the resort staffs to die in this disaster and why some of them survived? DMC has the answers
A man decided to stop to go a school to go married instead when he was 18 but later on he had an affair with another woman who had already married. Later on, his business was bankrupt and had to flee away from debtors for a while. His first wife remarried with a new husband. After he started a new business, his second wife had an affair with his own employee. He married with the third wife but he kept drinking alcohol and became drug addicted. Finally, he has lost his third wife. Let ‘s study his life in style of Dream in Dream school.
“(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…”
My mother saved up until she had a lot of money in a trust fund. Unfortunately, it seems like it was her kamma. That trust went bankrupt. My mother lost many millions of baht.
She was born in a family that the parents always have a quarrel because of alcohol.Her mother said she had a dream before gave birth to her and was confident that she would be a doctor once she grown up. And the dream had came true, she became a doctor. She treats the patients by using her knowledge, giving an advice to her coma patients to be in a better conscious and think of only merit before dying. She is a successful doctor but she does not seem to be much successful in love.
Aunt Choop was the daughter of one of Luang Pu’s closest friends. She had the opportunity to help with the funeral for Luang Pu’s mother. She had always made desserts and offered the desserts and alms to Luang Pu. As soon as she learnt that Uncle Laum and Aunt La Aw would donate the land for the construction of the Memorial Hall of Phramongkolthepmuni, she promptly announced that, “ If you do it, I have to do it, too.” After Aunt Choop donated the land, she had been looking forward to the completion of the Memorial Hall.
