What are Sila Vata (religious or monastic precepts)? How are they different from the 5 precepts?
I heard Luang Phaw talk about Sila Vata (religious or monastic precepts). What are they? How are they different from the 5 precepts?
Meditation Experience - Bonnie Nozawa
Ms. Bonnie Nozawa unveiled the worst time in her life and meditation was her solution. Let's read her story and you will find that meditation is not difficult for you.
The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Cherishing our parents (4)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Fourth Group of Blessings. Blessing Eleven :- Cherishing our parents
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?
Lost Buddha Amulets, Family of Divorce
Her mother had as many as 8 operations and on her last operation, her doctor predicted that she would not live longer than 2 years. Her mother got a chance to come to Dhammakaya Temple and did lots of merits. Surprisingly, she is still living and healthy. What merit causes this? And, why did many of her family members experience separation or divorce? DMC has the answers...
What is the implest way to explain the existence of heaven and hell to those who don’t have faith in the subject?
I would like to ask Luang Phaw the simplest way to explain the existence of heaven and hell to those who don’t have faith in the subject.
You Must Win
What demerit did her younger sister make with her husband that caused her to be shot and paralyzed for 30 years? Her husband died in 2006 from a heart attack. Where did he go? Is he being punished for the demerit he performed against her? What merit caused her to be the owner of the land full of slate? This land provides her with constant income and no matter how much slate is dug up, there is even more available.
Will you please tell us about the consequences of prejudice and show us how to get rid of it?
There are a lot of problems stemming from prejudice in Thai society today. Will you please tell us about the consequences of prejudice and show us how to get rid of it?
Selling Poverty
My brother in law had kidney failure, but he did not want to have treatment because he wanted to save money to make donations for the kathin ceremony at the hometown temple. He said that my sister wanted to make a donation for this kathin ceremony but she died before she could do it. He was afraid that when he wanted to make a donation, he would also die before having the opportunity. Why is it so difficult to make this merit? "You can see that we have to make merit quickly. We should not wait."
The Test Tube Baby
Her husband and she were married for 9 years but we still did not have a child. They went to see a doctor and had artificial fertilization twice but they failed. The doctor suggested them to utilize the test tube baby process. Which process of a soul’s birth occurred during the procedure of the test tube birth? Will the doctor and her accrue any sins (negative kamma) from destroying the fertilized ova and implanting only the perfect ovum?
