If I am determined to keep the 5 precepts fully as Luang Phaw explained about the sweetened tamarind, what will I receive as a result?
I believe meditation has helped with my work and allowed me to have empathy with other people. I feel that, by meditating, I have been able to more fully understand myself.
Just because a factory can make a large amount of things, it does not mean that it is a good factory
Earth Day...The World Save Day...and the schedule of the Earth Day at Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand
When the factors f the Eightflfold Path arise, they do so to gether-just as the elder monk kondanna, after lidtening to the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta instantly attained the fruit of the Stream-Entry
The Lord Buddha’s explanation of suffering includes all four of suffering’s implications in the light of the Four Noble Truths:
If military personnel has the opportunity to ordain as a monk, what appropriate topics of the Buddhist teachings should they be taught? And what kinds of merit will those who sponsor the ordination ceremony gain?
Speaking skillfully refers to giving full consideration prior to our speaking. In is important to say anything that makes others feel good and creates positive reactions.
The word patience came from “kunti”, which means you can still maintain your normal life with the conflict of desirable and undesirable things
The sort of wholesome speech which arises from a mind which is wholesome at the mundane level is well illustrated by the tale of Sujata
