Very often I felt like surrendering and didn’t understand why the more merit I made the more degrading my life was until I became penniless. I felt as if I was in the dark. However, no matter how bad it was I would not give in and I chose to fight to my death. I changed from being downhearted to taking up the challenge. Finally I found out the best solution was not to think about it and to motivate myself to keep on making merit with an assurance that one day the merit will certainly yield fruit.
All living beings have to undergo death before they are able to leave one existence for the next
My oldest sister follows a different creed called “Sanya”. The members of this creed chant something different from Buddhist morning and evening chanting. They light candle when they start chanting, and put the candle off when they finish a sentence of a chant. They repeat the same routine until they finish chanting.
Precepts refer to the regularity and normality of what humans should do. They are the basic disciplines in the Dhamma and distinguish humans from animals
One day, a family invited guests to their home for a religions rite for the great-grandparent. After the ceremony, when all the guests had left, the son asked the father,
We need to associate those who can point out our delusions on a regular basis. Such friends could help us to assess what we do and show our weaknesses
Before inventing the measures to protect the society from the great disaster and to correct it, one must fathom the true root of the disaster
In the book Thirty-eight Universal Steps to Eternal Happiness, compiled for the summer program for ordained monks by the Venerable teacher Monk Somchai Tanavuddho,
The Law of Kamma, The Absolute Theory about Cause and Effect
เกิดมาทุกยุคทุกสมัย ขอให้ปราศจากคนพาล ให้ข้าพเจ้าหมดเวรหมดกรรม พอเกิดมาขอให้เห็นธรรมะใส ๆ ไปทุกภพทุกชาติ ขอให้มีสมบัติทำบุญทำทาน อย่ารู้จักหมดสิ้น
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