Is there a way to console or recommendation we can offer to encourage who wishes to commit suicide to choose life?

It’s the case of knowing someone who’s undergoing untold suffering and distress and wishes to commit suicide. Is there a way to console or recommendation we can offer to encourage him to choose life?

The Executioner Behead a Prisoner

Before the execution, the primary swordsman drank a large amount of alcohol to calm himself. Just when he was about to make the killing blow, his energy level dropped greatly until he was unable to sever the prisoner’s neck immediately. The primary swordsman lost his footing because he struck his blow at the wrong moment. So he ended up obstructing the path of the second swordsman who was raising his sword to administer a follow-up blow.

My co-worker refuse with the reason that religions teach people to be contented and equable, and that doesn’t go well with the business life. How do I solve this misunderstanding?

When I ask my business associates to come to temples, they always refuse with the reason that religions teach people to be contented and equable, and that doesn’t go well with the business life. Would you please give us explanation in order to solve this misunderstanding?

The Noble Truth of Suffering : 1. Suffering as a result of Birth [jati dukkha]

The Lord Buddha taught that suffering as a result of birth is ‘built in’ suffering for every living being conceived in the realms of the Cycle of Existence

Will the friendship amongst drinkers last long?

People like to say that going out to drink alcohol with friends is a means to strengthen unity and promote relationships. It is regarded as promoting friendship. I just wonder if the friendship amongst drinkers will last long.

The Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering #1

After explaining the Noble Truth of Suffering, Lord Buddha continued with an explanation of the origin of suffering

Patience # 2

When the Lord Buddha pursued perfection in one of his lives as a bodhisattvas, he was born as a prince named venerable Taemee

Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta: The Sermon#2

This last metaphor clearly illustrates how no benefit can be found by indulging in sensual pleasure

Abstaining from Unwholesomeness # 2

means: being ashamed of unwholesomeness. Even if others don’t see what we are doing, but we bear still witness to our own unwholesome deeds it will cause us to be discontent

Want To Say I Love You

A man, when he was in childhood he was diligent but when he was grown up he became a trouble maker because of his promiscuous behavior. He always asked money from parents and spent it all with women. His parents thought he might be under the influence of black magic so they took him to a black magic master to remove the curse but nothing was better. He was admitted to a nerve hospital once. His mother ordained him as a monk at a temple. During his ordination, he was better but things turned back to be same after he quitted a priesthood. Did he have a mental problem from a black magic…..what is the Kammar of his parents to have so much sorrow with their son in this life?