Answer by Law of Kamma :- Making Merit For Someone Before/After His Death

An audience has a question that if he makes merit for his parents before they will pass away is different from doing after they passed away, how does it differ?

วัดพระธรรมกายเทนเนสซีประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกาจัดพิธีทอดผ้าป่าธรรมชัย

วัดพระธรรมกายเทนเนสซี ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา จัดพิธีถวายกองทุนข้าวสาร และพิธีทอดผ้าป่าธรรมชัย

Our Relationships: Six Directions

Everyone knows that all are in the same cycle of existence (birth, oldage, sickness, and death). Even if we are strangers, we are friends in the same world.

Artfulness In conduct

A sharpened knife without a sheath or a dangerous bomb without a safety bolt: they could be equally advantageous or disadvantageous depending, because of their lack of a controlling mechanism.

The Fruits of Merit are Not a Miracle

Those people who are habitually pessimistic, angry, greedy, etc, always attract negative things to themselves

Conscripted Soldiers

An audience questioned about the conscripted soldiers and Luang Phaw Dattajivo gave the answer.

You Are My Everything

At a silent night, when my father was drinking in that unfinished house, he suddenly cried in suffering and wriggled as if he was being harmed. When my mother met him, he was already dead. His whole body was bruised, and nobody could tell the cause of his death

The Avoidance of All Evil.

Absolutely all human beings are sentenced to die. If a prisoner, who is going to be put to death, goes to his/her execution with joy, they would also be accused of insanity.

Living A Short Life Making Merit Better Than A Long One Without Any

My grandmother ordained as a Buddhist nun when she was 62 years old at the Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen Temple. She helped out in the kitchen until she died at the age of 72 due to bone cancer. She was in great pain prior to her death and she was wailing miserably. The doctor injected her with morphine at 8am and she died at 6pm on that day

Non-Recklessness in the Dhamma # 2

A main supporting pillar is like a mindfulness person will always be aware of their actions