Mind without Sorrow

A sorrowful mind refers to the condition of the mind where sorrow cracks the mind like dry leaves or soil. In some cases, it can be a result from disappointment in love

Spirit Wants to Get Married

A good example of dedicated family, a man who studied major in law and had never believe in Law of Kammar finally changed his opinion after he heard a Dhamma teaching from Ven. Datta. Now, he quitted smoking and drinking and paid more attention on studying Buddhism. He and his wife lost a job during IMF period but now they owned a business. His daughter came to the temple since she was 3 years old and his son also loves to watch DMC.

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.

Graduated from Engineering, but almost went to Hell

Another witness of the ordination merit. What does a monk who was an engineer want to tell you about ordination?

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?

Are brains wired for enlightenment?

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The Gay Prostitute

A man was born in the family of 5 male siblings but his parents wanted a daughter so they raised him as if he was a girl. Once he grew up, he became a prostitute. He worked from Asian to Europe and had met lots of abnormal guests. What retributions caused his life to be like this? DMC has the answers.

Showing Symptoms

He used to throw a live turtle into a fire, when it crawled out, would throw it back into the fire again many times until it died. Not too long after that he asked for an ordination. Three months later he put on his robe and poured the petrol all over himself and lit the fire.

Thai Youth In The High Tech Era

Very often I felt like surrendering and didn’t understand why the more merit I made the more degrading my life was until I became penniless. I felt as if I was in the dark. However, no matter how bad it was I would not give in and I chose to fight to my death. I changed from being downhearted to taking up the challenge. Finally I found out the best solution was not to think about it and to motivate myself to keep on making merit with an assurance that one day the merit will certainly yield fruit.

THE 38 WAYS TO HAPPINESS: Do not associate with fools