World Peace Ethics Contest Inaugural Speech : หน้า 3/207

As this is the inaugural World Peace Ethics Contest, I regard all of you who have agreed to participate as history-makers in the forging of World Peace in our world - you are pioneers in bringing forth the Ethics of World Peace to the international community - and you are trendsetters at this dawning of the new and brighter age of peace which humankind has awaited for so long. It is this spiritual knowledge that is the trailhead of a new path of hope for each of you and for the world as a whole. Thus, may all of you be proud of taking an important part in this miraculous new future for the world. Finally, on this auspicious occasion, I would like to take the opportunity to call upon the spiritual perfections of all the fully-enlightened Buddhas, the Paccekabuddhas and the arahants - past, present and future, the spiritual perfections of the Most Venerable Phramonkolthepmuni (Sodh Candasaro), the late Great Abbot of Wat Paknam and rediscoverer of the Dhammakaya Tradition and the spiritual perfections of Khun Yay Acharn Maharatana Chandra Khonnokyoong - that the combination of all of these spiritual perfections may bring all of you happiness and prosperity in life - that you may achieve success and fulfillment in every good thing that you wish for. May you be endowed with material wealth, retinue, beauty, attainment of the body of Enlightenment of the Buddha and easy mastery of the Dhammakaya Tradition in every lifetime until you can enter upon the Utmost Dhamma. Preface The Lord Buddha demonstrated that all the problems in this world originate from the defilements (kilesa) within us. Similarly, family problems stem from the kilesa that resides in the couple. This starts when these two people, who love one another, decide to live together as husband and wife and agree to start a family. When two people, who still possess kilesa, decide to cohabitate, they must make adjustments since they are both sharing their positive and negative attributes in that household. If they integrate their positive attributes, their union will be smooth. However, if they integrate their negative attributes their experience may be quite volatile. Then when they have children, no matter how many, their duties will increase. In addition to the responsibilities of being a husband and a wife, they will have the additional responsibilities of being parents. Menge from The Most Ven The Warm Hearted Family The Warm Hearted Family Preface