The southern direction, or the right hand direction, represents the relationships we have with our teachers as a result of their giving us education and training.
The direction in front of us represents the relationships the relationships we have with others as a result of their giving birth to us, i.e. our parents.
Arranging for their marriage to a suitable apouse: As if giving all manner of basic needs and education is not enough, children even expect parents to give approval (or otherwise) when in doubt about who to marry
When we die we can not carry anything with us, not even a single needle. The only way you can take wealth with you is by giving your wealth away in order to make merit
To be happy to give and forgive, we may start by giving happiness to ourselves. We can do it in a simple way by telling ourselves every morning right after we get up, “I will be happy today.”
Wat Phra Dhammakaya arranged the 99th Ceremony of Offering Alms to 323 Temples within 9 years to dedicate merit to the dead in four unrest Southern provinces and the Ceremony of Giving Fund to help teachers in these provinces
The Morning Alms Round to 11,111 Monks in Samut Prakarn province on Sunday June 16th, 2013
Join the Peace for Africa movement at the Meditation Centre in the Cradle of Humankind. Bring back the old days to see humankind give more than take. Witness the 2,600-year-old living tradition of giving and the culture of peace.
Thai souls are peaceful. The peace is natured in Thais since the break of dawn. The Lord Buddha taught all Buddhists to practice peaceful mind by three ways of merit cultivation-giving (alms), precepts and meditation; Thais take these ways of peaceful mind since the break of new day.
PATHUM THANI 22 APRIL 2015 - More than 200,000 monks and novices from every region of Thailand as well as and monk visitors from 12 countries and lay Buddhists from Thailand and overseas travelled to the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province for a historic gathering to create “global-cooling effects” with prayer, meditation, and giving on the Earth Day 22 April 2015.
