Feng Shui
Karma that happens in this life is the effect from actions that we did in previous life. One of the Norway ladies was sent out to a foster home since she was 3 months old and had no chance to be close with her mom. She had to move along with her dad for 12 times until she was used to separation and lack of warmness from people of close relationship. What retribution caused her life to be like this? And, why can her daughter sense which house is livable or no?
What is a definition of karma?
As a mother, I have taken great care in teaching my children about virtues, but children these days need to have good reasons. So they often would ask me a question in return concerning the standard one would use to measure good and bad? I am unable to answer their question sufficiently, so I ask you, Luangphaw, to help provide a definition to the word karma? How many ways can one acquire karma? What are the determining factors?
A Man Who Violated His Daughter and Another Relative of the Same Blood Line
เรื่องราวน่าสะเทือนใจ...ชายคนหนึ่ง มีนิสัยเจ้าชู้ แม้แต่คนในครอบครัวก็ไม่ละเว้น มีความสัมพันธ์กับน้องสาวของตัวเองอย่างเปิดเผย จนภรรยาของเขาทนไม่ไหวต้องขอแยกทางไป ทั้งๆที่มีลูกสาวด้วยกันถึง 5 คน นอกจากนั้น ยังข่มขืนลูกสาวแท้ๆของตัวเองถึงสองคน...ด้วยวิบากกรรมใด เขาจึงทำได้อย่างนี้...น้องสาว และลูกสาวทั้งสองคน ของเขามีวิบากกรรมใดจึงต้องมาเจอกับเหตุการณ์เช่นนี้...
If donating blood gives us a lot of merits, will donating our body after we die to a hospital help us accrue even more merits?
Image in the middle of Khong River
She was honored by a society to be a role model and a Dhamma-oriented teacher. She ordained as a renunciation or Brahmin nun every summer break. She seek the white path around Thailand and has been to all good temples. Why she ends up at Dhammakaya Temple? Let's follow.
The Ten Ways to accrue Merits can be summarized into Three Simple Ways
Generosity helps to dissolves our stinginess, or our unwillingness to help others
Tsunami Hit Coral Resort
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 Different Point of Views
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.
I-Believe
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.
Very Poor
Example of stinginess of a woman who is an underground lottery dealer. In the past she had a good living lifestyle but she didn’t take care of her parents or her relatives even they were in a difficulty situation. After that she broke due to her business of underground lottery. Even in the last time of her life, she didn’t even have a coffin. There was only a mat to wrap her body before burning. How is her life after death? DMC has the answers.
