What are the benefits of making merit?

The benefit of making great merit and offering alms to monks and monastic communities

Daily activities and the mind should go together

In order to achieve the benefits of meditation, you must practise meditation on a daily basis. You cannot miss even for a day.

Erroneous Core Values are the Fruit of Mental Defilements

Before we proceed to the topic of ‘core values’ in detail, it is necessary to understand ‘erroneous core values’ which make one misunderstand life and the world.

My friend told me that regular people like him/her who work, maintaining the precepts is enough no need to meditate. How can I explain to him/her?

I once invited a friend to meditate. My friend told me that regular people like him/her who work, maintaining the precepts is enough. It is not necessary to meditate also. How can I explain Luang Phaw’s teachings to him/her?

Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this tru

Someone asked me: the objective of maintaining the 8 precepts is to be celibate. If he is able to maintain the third precept, the other subordinate precepts such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth precepts, he does not need to maintain those. Is this true?

Casting the 6th golden statue of Luang Pu

The good chance is coming soon. We would like to invite all of Luang Pu's disciples to cast the 6th golden statue of Luang Pu together at Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand. Who was Luang Pu, the Most Ven. Phramongkolthepmuni (Sodh Chandasaro)? How important was he? Why do we cast him in gold? They will be FAQ and our answers will be the announcements of Luang Pu's mightiness. Let's come to be one of the historic people. Don't miss this big merit!

Restraint from Drinking Intoxicants (6-1)

The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Sixth Group of Blessings. Blessing Twenty:- Restraint from Drinking Intoxicants.

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

What moral principles should be picked up to apply to my life so that I could maintain a scrupulous life?

My father has just passed away, as the eldest son of the family, how should I take a good care of my mother and my younger sister? And what moral principles should be picked up to apply to my life so that I could maintain a scrupulous life?

When Merits Depleted, I Went Broke

Since he was born, his life was magnificent and comfortable. His family was ranked as a moderately wealthy family of Taoyuan, from selling alcohol and cigarettes. The comfort he received was a result of the destruction of others. What are the Karma of doing this? DMC has the answers.