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Like when enter or join, a shrine, another's sphere, or back: good for greating, bye, veneration, short talks, quick help. Some infos on regards .


2024 Apr 23 20:02:44
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 23 19:09:21
Dhammañāṇa: No doubt that this 3. WW has already the dimension of kamikaze-suizid. The evil of holding on wrong views.

2024 Apr 23 06:06:39
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed Fullmoon Uposatha be the six recollections.

2024 Apr 22 21:15:35
Dhammañāṇa: Most, even devoted, seek just for "real" things, such as good feelings.  :)

2024 Apr 22 13:06:30
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 22 11:34:14
Dhammañāṇa: When common has no more regard for Sublime, denies goodness, than Sublime fades away for them. It's not so that Sublime has a lose by it, since the common remains bond, cut off from ways up and out.

2024 Apr 18 11:02:00
blazer:  _/\_

2024 Apr 13 06:28:47
Dhammañāṇa: May all travel careful and safe and meet their relatives always in good fortune.

2024 Apr 08 22:43:14
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 08 10:24:31
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 08 06:05:52
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed New moon Uposatha by follow the Brahmacariya.

2024 Apr 06 19:05:27
Dhammañāṇa: * It's not so that one did not received much goodness either.

2024 Apr 06 19:04:36
Dhammañāṇa: It's not so that one received much goodness either.

2024 Apr 06 17:34:34
Dhammañāṇa: Avoid and be grateful anyway, as it's not so that their wasn't a try at least.

2024 Apr 06 17:33:09
Dhammañāṇa: And after others did their things, they get angry... No way to help, just good to avoid.

2024 Apr 06 14:15:01
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 06 10:45:53
Dhammañāṇa: But usually people just seek excuses or let others do the work.

2024 Apr 06 10:44:20
Dhammañāṇa: If people would be clear about dukkha in all, they wouldn't be lazy and let others do, wouldn't consume instead of sacrifice.

2024 Apr 05 22:15:22
Moritz: _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 05 18:51:35
Dhammañāṇa: Sensual craving, control-will, laziness, restlessness, and doubt. Nothing else hinders one from doing sacrifices, for here and for beyond.

2024 Apr 05 18:50:31
Vila: 🤦‍♀️

2024 Apr 05 18:49:10
Vila: ចិន្តីសូត្រ ទី៣ [] https://sangham.net/km/tipitaka/sut/an/03/sut.an.03.003

2024 Apr 05 18:47:40
Dhammañāṇa: Sensual craving, control-will, laziness, restlessness, and doubt. Nothing else hinders one from doing sacrifices, for here and for beyond.

2024 Apr 05 17:04:46
Dhammañāṇa: Yet nobody can take away good deeds done. So why don't just do it.

2024 Apr 05 12:31:40
Dhammañāṇa: When doubt or incapable to control or making one's own, than one does not go for it, often even wishing it destroyed.

2024 Apr 05 12:25:05
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 04 17:32:20
Vila: កូណា _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 04 14:56:02
Dhammañāṇa: Now fine?

2024 Apr 04 14:02:47
Vila: Media Files Media FilesUploadSearch Files in user:cheav_villa:privat  Sorry, you don't have enough rights to read files.

2024 Apr 04 13:58:43
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 04 12:26:48
Dhammañāṇa: Atma moved them (13) to Nyoms private folder.

2024 Apr 04 09:47:09
Vila: កូណាច្រឡំ អាប់ឡូត រូបក្មុង Album លោកតា :o ជជែកគ្នារឿងឆេងម៉េង នៅកន្លែងការងារ បណ្តើរចុចៗ ចូលទៅឡូតចឹងទៅ😌

2024 Apr 04 04:54:49
Dhammañāṇa: May all spend a grateful ancestor reminder day, reflecting beings of goodness (in the past) all around.

2024 Apr 04 00:50:34
Dhammañāṇa: :)

2024 Apr 03 22:17:46
Vila: លោកតាលែងបបូល កូណាធ្វើជណ្តើរ?

2024 Apr 03 22:17:18
Vila:  :)

2024 Apr 03 20:27:48
Dhammañāṇa: May the rain have been sufficient enough so that nobody would harm being of goodness, now resisting in other spheres, on tomorrow reminder day at least.

2024 Apr 02 13:03:04
blazer:  Bhante Dhammañāṇa _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 02 07:00:28
Dhammañāṇa: Short after hype in "industrial revolutions" always comes the dark Red.

2024 Apr 01 09:23:59
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Apr 01 06:07:28
Dhammañāṇa: May all spend a blessed Sila day by observing virtue and reflecting on goodness.

2024 Mar 29 21:32:04
Dhammañāṇa: 500 visitors  Amazon after AI food.

2024 Mar 24 19:07:11
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_ 😌

2024 Mar 24 14:13:29
blazer: Bhante Dhammañāṇa  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 24 06:25:25
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed full moon Uposatha by following the conducts of the Arahats.

2024 Mar 23 13:11:16
blazer: Hello everyone  _/\_

2024 Mar 21 01:07:56
Dhammañāṇa: Nyom

2024 Mar 21 00:28:58
Moritz: Vandami Bhante _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 20 14:25:49
blazer: Bhante Dhammañāṇa  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 20 12:06:29
Dhammañāṇa: Nyom

2024 Mar 20 11:24:06
blazer: Good morning everyone  _/\_

2024 Mar 18 21:42:50
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 18 19:43:59
Dhammañāṇa: Mudita, Nyom.

2024 Mar 18 19:36:35
blazer: Bhante Dhammañāṇa  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_ Undertaking this Sila day at my best.

2024 Mar 18 06:17:10
Dhammañāṇa: Those who undertake the Sila day today: may it be of much metta.

2024 Mar 18 02:16:41
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 17 21:09:31
Vila: 🚬🚬🚬

2024 Mar 17 06:30:53
Dhammañāṇa: Metta-full Sila day, those after it today.

2024 Mar 17 00:02:34
blazer: Bhante Dhammañāṇa  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Mar 11 09:16:04
Dhammañāṇa: Once totally caught by google, AI and machines, every door has been closed for long, long term.

2024 Mar 11 09:14:04
Dhammañāṇa: People at large just wait that another would do his/her duty. Once a slight door to run back, they are gone. By going again just for debts, the wheel of running away turns on.

2024 Mar 10 18:59:10
Dhammañāṇa: Less are those who don't use the higher Dhamma not for defilement-defence, less those who don't throw the basics away and turn back to sensuality "with ease".

2024 Mar 10 06:51:11
Dhammañāṇa: A auspicious new-moon Uposatha for those observing it today.

2024 Mar 09 06:34:39
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed New-moon Uposatha, and birth reminder day of a monarchy of wonders.

2024 Mar 08 21:39:54
Dhammañāṇa: The best way to keep an Ashram silent is to put always duties and Sila high. If wishing it populated, put meditation (eating) on the first place.

2024 Mar 03 21:27:27
Dhammañāṇa: May those undertaking the Sila day today, spend it off in best ways, similar those who go after the days purpose tomorrow.

2024 Feb 25 22:10:33
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 24 06:42:35
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed Māgha Pūjā and Full moon Uposatha with much reason for good recallings of goodness.

2024 Feb 24 01:50:55
blazer: Bhante Dhammañāṇa  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 23 06:39:57
Dhammañāṇa: Nyom

2024 Feb 23 00:19:58
blazer: Taken flu again... at least leg pain has been better managed since many weeks and it's the greatest benefit. Hope Bhante Dhammañāṇa is fine  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 18 01:06:43
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 18 00:02:37
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 17 18:47:31
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed rest of todays Sila-day.

2024 Feb 17 18:46:59
Dhammañāṇa: Chau Marco, chau...

2024 Feb 16 23:32:59
blazer: Just ended important burocratic and medical stuff. I will check for a flight for Cambodia soon  _/\_

2024 Feb 09 16:08:32
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 09 12:17:31
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 09 06:42:17
Dhammañāṇa: May all spend a blessed New moon Uposatha and last day of the Chinese year of the rabbit, entering the Year of the Naga wisely.

2024 Feb 02 21:17:28
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Feb 02 19:53:28
Dhammañāṇa: May all have the possibility to spend a pleasing rest of Sila day, having given goodness and spend a faultless day.

2024 Jan 26 14:40:25
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Jan 25 10:02:46
Dhammañāṇa: May all spend a blessed Full moon Uposatha.

2024 Jan 11 06:37:21
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Jan 07 06:31:20
Dhammañāṇa: May many, by skilful deeds,  go for real and lasting independence today

2024 Jan 06 18:00:36
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Jan 04 16:57:17
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2024 Jan 04 12:33:08
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed Sila-day, full of metta in thoughts, speech and deeds.

2023 Dec 30 20:21:07
Vila:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2023 Dec 27 23:18:38
Dhammañāṇa: May the rest of a bright full moon Uposatha serve many as a blessed day of good deeds.

2023 Dec 26 23:12:17
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2023 Dec 24 16:52:50
Dhammañāṇa: May all who celebrated the birth of their prophet, declaring them his ideas of reaching the Brahma realm, spend peaceful days with family and reflect the goodness near around them, virtuous, generously.

2023 Dec 20 21:36:37
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2023 Dec 20 06:54:09
Dhammañāṇa: A blessed Sila day, by conducting in peacefull manners.

2023 Dec 12 23:45:24
blazer:  _/\_

2023 Dec 12 20:34:26
Dhammañāṇa: choice, yes  :)

2023 Dec 12 13:23:35
blazer: If meaning freedom of choice i understand and agree

2023 Dec 12 12:48:42
blazer:  _/\_ _/\_ _/\_

2023 Dec 12 06:13:23
Dhammañāṇa: May all spend a great New Moon Uposatha, following the conducts of the Arahats.

2023 Dec 10 12:51:16
Dhammañāṇa: The more freedom of joice, the more troubled in regard of what's right, what's wrong. My person does not say that people at large are prepared for freedom of joice even a little.

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P'chum Ben - Ahnengedenken / Honor of ancestors
« on: October 04, 2013, 09:02:22 AM »
 *sgift*

Werte Freunde,

Seit einigen Tagen ist ein wichtiges Fest hier in Südostasien im Gange und ich möchte hier diese Zeilen all jenen widmen, die es nicht vermögen, sich ihre Nahrung selbst zu erarbeiten.


Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa

Tirokudda Kanda: Hungrige Schatten außerhalb der Mauern

Außerhalb der Mauern stehen sie,
   und an Straßenkreuzungen.
An Türstöcken stehen sie,
   kommen zu deren alten Heimen zurück.
Aber wenn ein Mahl mit reichlich Speise und Getränk serviert,
   erinnern sich keiner an sie:
So ist das Kamma von Lebewesen.

Jene die Anteilnahme mit ihren toten Verwandten fühlen
geben bei Zeiten Spenden von passenden Speisen und Getränk
   — erlesen, rein —
[denken] "Möge diese für unsere Verwandten sein.
      Mögen unsere Verwandten glücklich sein!"

Und jene, die sich dort zusammen gefunden haben,
   die versammelten Schatten der Verwandten,
mit Anerkennung geben sie ihren Segen
für die reichlichen Speisen und Getränk:
   "Mögen unsere Verwandten lange leben
   es war an ihnen, das wir [diese Gabe] erlangt.
   Wir wurden geehrt,
   und die Spender sind nicht ohne Lohn!"

Denn dort [in deren Welt] ist
   kein ackern,
   kein Vieh zu hüten,
   keine Wirtschaft,
   kein Handel mit Geld.
Sie leben von dem was hier gegeben ist,
   hungrige Schatten
   deren Zeit hier vertan.

So wie Wasser in den Bergen geregnet
hinunter fließt ins Tal,
   eben so, was hier gegeben,
   nützlich den Toten ist.
So wie Flüsse reich an Wasser
den Ozean füllen,
   eben so, was hier gegeben,
   nützlich den Toten ist.

"Er gab mir, sie handelte für meine Sache,
   sie waren meine Verwandten, Gefährten, Freunde":
Darbietungen sollten den Toten gegeben werden
wenn jemand dies reflektiert,
über Dinge getan in der Vergangenheit.
Denn kein weinen
   kein Bedauern
   keine andere Klagerei
      den Toten von nutzen
      dessen Verwandten in dieser Weise verharren.
Doch wenn diese Gabe gegeben, gut platziert in der Sangha,
arbeitet es für deren langfristigen Nutzen
und sie profitieren sogleich.

Auf diese Weise
      wurde die rechte Pflicht an Verwandte gezeigt,
      große Ehrung wurde den Toten getan,
      und Bhikkhus wurde Kraft gegeben:
      
   Der Verdienst den du erlangt
      ist nicht klein.
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Zur Erklärung, aus "Ein Leben für den Frieden - Der Buddha der auf dem Schlachtfeld " von Santidhammo Bhikku

Tag der Ahnen

Im September zelebrieren die Menschen die Ahnenfeier, Pchum Ben, eine Art Fest zur Ehrung des Todes, das vierzehn Tage andauert. Zu dieser Zeit lösen sich die Menschen ab, den Mönchen, stellvertretend für ihre Ahnen, Geschenke zu machen, in der Hoffnung die Rezitationen der Mönche werden die Toten zufrieden stellen. Dies ist eine sehr alte Tradition in Kambodscha. Von König Yosavarman (889-910 n.Chr.) hinterlassene Steininschriften besagen, daß er viele Kloster baute und zu Gunsten „verlassener Seelen“, die keine Familie hatten, die Opfer bringen konnten, wie auch für die Soldaten, die für ihn in Schlachten starben, monatlich Reis an die Mönche spendete. Am letzten Tag des Pchum Ben ein Vollmondtag, versammeln sich alle Buddhisten, arm und reich, in den Pagoden um deren gemeinsame kambodschanische Identität zu ehren und Opfer zu bringen. Die Seelen der Verstorbenen würden die Nachkommen mit Schuldgefühlen für das anmutlose Verhalten verfluchen und jagen, wenn sie dieses Fest verabsäumen würden. Entsprechend der Legende wurde das Pchum Ben Fest geboren, als König Bath Pempksa entgegen der Sitte, vor den Opfergaben an die Mönche während der Feierlichkeiten, zu essen begann. Nachdem die Mönche gestorben waren, wurden sie zu bösen hungrigen Geistern und fragten Buddha: „Wann können wir essen?“ Buddha antwortete, daß sie bis zum Erscheinen von Maitreya, dem zukünftigen Buddha, warten müssen. Die hungrigen Geister fragten den zukünftigen Buddha wann sie doch essen könnten und dieser sagte: „Ihr müßt warten bis König Bath Pempksa euch Opfer bringt, seine Aufwartung anbietet und euch Speisen widmet.“

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Dear Friends,

since some days an important celebration is going on hear in South East Asia and I would like to dedicate this topic those who are not capable to work out their food by themselves.

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa

Tirokudda Kanda: Hungry Shades Outside the Walls

Outside the walls they stand,
   & at crossroads.
At door posts they stand,
   returning to their old homes.
But when a meal with plentiful food & drink is served,
   no one remembers them:
Such is the kamma of living beings.

Thus those who feel sympathy for their dead relatives
give timely donations of proper food & drink
   — exquisite, clean —
[thinking:] "May this be for our relatives.
      May our relatives be happy!"

And those who have gathered there,
   the assembled shades of the relatives,
with appreciation give their blessing
for the plentiful food & drink:
   "May our relatives live long
   because of whom we have gained [this gift].
   We have been honored,
   and the donors are not without reward!"

For there [in their realm] there's
   no farming,
   no herding of cattle,
   no commerce,
   no trading with money.
They live on what is given here,
   hungry shades
   whose time here is done.

As water raining on a hill
flows down to the valley,
   even so does what is given here
   benefit the dead.
As rivers full of water
fill the ocean full,
   even so does what is given here
   benefit the dead.

"He gave to me, she acted on my behalf,
   they were my relatives, companions, friends":
Offerings should be given for the dead
when one reflects thus
on things done in the past.
For no weeping,
   no sorrowing
   no other lamentation
      benefits the dead
      whose relatives persist in that way.
But when this offering is given, well-placed in the Sangha,
it works for their long-term benefit
and they profit immediately.

In this way
      the proper duty to relatives has been shown,
      great honor has been done to the dead,
      and monks have been given strength:

   The merit you've acquired
      isn't small.
Quote from: Petavatthu - ZzE

For explanation, from the book "The Buddha of the Battlefield" by Santidhammo Bhikku

Quote from: The Buddha of the Battlefield
ANCESTOR DAYS

In September, the people celebrate “P’chum Ben” or Ancestor Observances, a sort of festival of the dead, lasting for fourteen days, in which the people take turns offering food to the monks as proxies for the ancestors, in hope that their offerings will satisfy the dead by virtue of the monks’ sermons.

This is a very old tradition in Cambodia. Stone inscriptions left by King Yosavarman 889-910 say he build many monasteries and offered rice to the monks on a monthly basis, on behalf of “abandoned souls” who had no family to make offerings for them, and for souls of his soldiers who had died in combat.

On the full moon, the last day of P’chum Ben all Buddhists, rich and poor, gather together in the temples to share their Cambodian identity, to make offerings to the temples. The souls of the ancestors will curse and haunt their descendants with guilt for being ungrateful if they fail to make these observances.

According to legend, the festival was established when King Preah Bath Pempik-sa defied religious custom and ate food before making offerings to the monks during a religious ritual. After their death, they became evil sprits, hungry ghosts who requested from the Buddha, “When can we eat?” The Buddha said they must wait until the appearance of the Buddha of the future, Maitreya. The hungry ghost-monks asked the future Buddha when they could eat, and he said, “You must wait until King Preah Bath Pempik-sa made offerings and dedicates the merit and food to you.”

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Re: P'chum Ben - Ahnengedenken / Honor of ancestors
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 09:22:28 AM »
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Werte Freunde,

Seit einigen Tagen ist ein wichtiges Fest hier in Südostasien im Gange und ich möchte hier diese Zeilen all jenen widmen, die es nicht vermögen, sich ihre Nahrung selbst zu erarbeiten.

Sadhu!

Mögen die hungrigen Geister hiervon profitieren, und von allem, was hier gegeben wird.

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