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I do agree with what u mentioned.
But for many cases, when one wants go go vegetarian, many times situation doesn't permits. Example: Its really difficult to locate vegetarian stalls in some eateries. Normally, most vegetarian stalls only open in the morning, unless you have the means of transport to travel to else where.
For convinence sake, we can buy the vegetables from normal non vegetarian stalls (which sometimes includes meat product) and chant the mantra compassionally ... Its just another way to show our compassion on extreme situation
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Welcome to Sea of Affinity !!!!
I might be wrong, but it seems that the 'momos' are trying to frighten you, make u scared, thus stop all the chanting .. the 'momos' might be your -ve karmas too, trying to frighten you off, thus stop you from chanting as well...
What I can suggest is, be determine and continue chanting .. it might take a long time before the 'momos' stop opposing, but I guess, it all worth it ......
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Originally posted by pentan3008:How I wish I can dreams so vividly.
2 months ago, I dreamed of a young boy giving numbers. There are 6 set of numbers just like those numbers that you find in TOTO. But when I wake up I can only remember 4 of them vividly and the remaining 2 of them, I only remember the front digits. So I bought TOTO based on those 4 numbers and make a wild guess on the remaining 2. I did win based on the 4 numbers. I am not bragging here but trying to state the fact that if I can remember dreams like maggot does that I would be a millionaire now.keke .. I dreamt of numbers b4 and remembered them .. but bo opened de
keke ...
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Why must positive potential be dedicated? What should it be dedicated for?
It is important to dedicate our positive potential so it does not get destroyed by our anger or wrong views. Like the steering wheel guiding where the car goes, dedication will guide how our positive potential ripens. It is best to dedicate for the most extensive and noble goals. If we do so, all the smaller results will naturally come. If we set our destination s London, we will pass through Delhi and Kuwait along the way; we do not need a special ticket for those places. Likewise, if we dedicate our positive potential, however small, towards the ultimate happiness and enlightenment of all sentient beings, this automatically includes dedicating for a good rebirth and for the happiness of our relatives and friends.
Some people think, I have so little positive potential. If I dedicate it for the happiness of everyone, then I wont have any left over for myself. This is not correct. By dedicating our positive potential to others, it does not mean that we have less for ourselves. We will not become paupers by sharing the good results of our actions with others. While dedicating our positive potential for the benefit of all beings, we can still make special prayers, for the happiness of a particular person who is having difficulties at that time.
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Can merits be transferred to deceased ones?
Dedicate rather than transfer merits (positive potential) conveys the meaning better. We cannot transfer merits in the same way as we can transfer the title to a piece of property or in the same way as I give my car to you because you do not have one. The Buddha stated that those who create the causes are the ones who experience the results. I cannot create the cause and you experience the result, because the imprint or seed of the action has been implanted on my mental continuum, not yours. So if the deceased ones did not create positive actions while they were alive, we cannot create the good karma and then give them our good karma to experience.
However, our prayers and offerings on their behalf can create the circumstances necessary so that a positive action they created can bear its fruit. When a seed is planted in a field, it needs the cooperative conditions of sunshine, water and fertilizer to grow. Likewise, a seed or imprint of an action a person performed will ripen when all the cooperative conditions are present. If the deceased one has done beneficial actions while he/she was alive, then the additional positive potential we create by making offerings or doing any kind of virruous action reciting and reading Dharma texts, making statues of the Buddha, contemplating love and compassion for all beings and so forth can help them. We dedicte the positive potential from these actions for the benefit of the deceased person, and this could help his/her own virtuous seeds to ripen.
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Some people do not realise that it is impossible to help the departed ones simply by building big graveyards, tombs, paper-houses and other paraphernalia. Neither is it possible to help the departed by burning joss-sticks, joss-paper, etc.; nor is it possible to help the departed by slaughtering animals and offering them along with other kinds of food. Also one should not waste by burning things used by the departed ones on the assumption that the deceased persons would somehow benefit by the act, when such articles can in fact be distributed among the needy.
The only way to help the departed ones is to do some meritorious deeds in a religious way in memory of them. The meritorious deeds include such acts as giving alms to others, building schools, temples, orphanages, libraries, hospitals, printing religious books for free distribution and similar charitable deeds.
The followers of the Buddha should act wisely and should not follow anything blindly. While others pray to god for the departed ones, Buddhists radiate their loving-kindness directly to them. By doing meritorious deeds, they can transfer the merits to their beloved ones for their well-being. This is the best way of remembering and giving real honour to and perpetuating the names of the departed ones. In their state of happiness, the departed ones will reciprocate their blessings on their living relatives. It is, therefore, the duty of relatives to remember their departed ones by transferring merits and by radiating loving-kindness directly to them.
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The joy of transference of merits can also take place with or without the knowledge of the doer of the meritorious act. All that is necessary is for the beneficiary to feel gladness in his heart when he becomes aware of the good deed. If he wishes, he can express his joy by saying sadhu which means well done. What he is doing is creating a kind of mental or verbal applause. In order to share the good deed done by another, what is important is that there must be actual approval of the deed and joy arising in the beneficiarys heart.
Even if he so desires, the doer of a good deed cannot prevent anothers rejoicing in the merit because he has no power over anothers thoughts. According to the Buddha, in all actions, thought is what really matters. Transference is primarily an act of the mind.
To transfer merit does not mean that a person is deprived of the merit had originally acquired by his good deed. On the contrary, the very act of transference is a good deed in itself and hence enhances the merit already earned.
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There is a concept in Buddhism of merit. Merits could be said to positive karmic influences. As the adept of Buddhist meditation practises there naturally arises merit, which can be dedicated to others. This is an expression of the Bodhisattva Vow to strive for perfection and enlightenment but to forego it to help all beings.
If you really want to honour and help your departed ones, then do some meritorious deeds in their name and transfer the merits to them.
According to Buddhism, good deeds or acts of merit bring happiness to the doer both in this world and in the hereafter. Acts of merit are also believed to lead towards the final goal of everlasting happiness. The acts of merit can be performed through body, speech or mind. Every good deed produces merit which accumulates to the credit of the doer. Buddhism also teaches that the acquired merit can be transferred to others, it can be shared vicariously with others. In other words, the merit is reversible and so can be shared with other persons. The persons who receive the merit can be either living or departed ones.
The method for transferring merits is quite simple. First some good deeds are performed. The doer of the good deeds has merely to wish that the merit he has gained accrues to someone in particular, or to all beings. This wish can be purely mental or it can accompanied by an expression of words.
This wish could be made with the beneficiary being aware of it. When the beneficiary is aware of the act or wish, then a mutual rejoicing in merit takes place. Here the beneficiary becomes a participant of the original deed by associating himself with the deed done. If the beneficiary identifies himself with both the deed and the doer, he can sometimes acquire even greater merit than the original doer, either because his elation is greater or because his appreciation of the value of the deed is based on his understanding of Dhamma and, hence, more meritorious, Buddhist texts contain several stories of such instances.
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Hello ...
Has anyone participate on the above mention b4?
am wondering whats the purpose .. and what can be expected from this event.
http://www.kmspks.org/events/index.htm
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Buddha's Final Teaching on Avoiding Meat & Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJFzsyvszZQEdited by zacken99 21 Oct `07, 2:53AM
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