Sunday, December 14, 2014

Merits Making - Alms Giving

Merits from Alms Giving

Thai people believes that if they offer certain kinds of things to the monks:

- If you offer rice or any stable food, you will be happy and healthy all through your life

-  If you offer clothing, in your next life, you won’t have a problem with clothing and will also have beautiful skin

- If you offer candles, flashlight and incense sticks you will have beautiful and bright eyes. Also, in your next life you will not need glasses

-  If you offer a Buddha image, in your following life you will be as beautiful as that image

-  If you offer religious books or donate text books and learning materials for school children, you will be intelligent in your next life

-  If you offer soap, skin lotion or cleansing facilities, you will have nice and beautiful skin

-  If you donate money and materials for constructing buildings in the monastery, you will have a big and beautiful house in your next life

-  If you build bathrooms and toilets for the monastery and help to build public hospitals, you will have a healthy and happy life

-  If you offer toothpicks, toothbrushes and toothpaste, you will have beautiful and strong teeth

- If you donate blood, kidney or other part of your body, you will have a fit body and vigorous health in your future lives.



Below is a print shop contact in Bangkok that I frequently use, you may contact them direct if you need to print some books and distribute to temples.  You can request the print shop to have your names printed on the front page.  These are some books I've printed over the years,  usually about 25,000 baht for each book I printed each time; and I will distribute to the more popular temples so that the monks can help give out to devotees.


-  If you offer religious books or donate text books and learning materials for school children, you will be intelligent in your next life
Printer shop details
Printer shop
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
These are printed in my office - Comprehensive English-Mandarin Pali Chanting Book
I've printed a 100 copies of it, 248 pages per book and weight 600grams each.
All hand-carried to Wat Phra Yayang on 2 trips due to their weight
and distributed to those devotees that goes Wat Phra Yayang for meditation.

Book 8
These Chinabunchorn Katha in two languages.  Artwork layout, printed, cut and laminate in my office.
Delivered to CK Tieng, Chief monk of Wat Rakhang






-  If you offer a Buddha image, in your following life you will be as beautiful as that image
-  If you offer rice or any stable food, you will be happy and healthy all through your life
-  If you offer clothing, in your next life, you won’t have a problem with clothing and will also have beautiful skin
-  If you offer toothpicks, toothbrushes and toothpaste, you will have beautiful and strong teeth


 







Phra Pra Tarn Pon






Phra Sivali







Phra Chinnaraj






- If you offer rice or any stable food, you will be happy and healthy all through your life
-  If you offer clothing, in your next life, you won’t have a problem with clothing and will also have beautiful skin
- If you offer candles, flashlight and incense sticks you will have beautiful and bright eyes. Also, in your next life you will not need glasses
-  If you offer soap, skin lotion or cleansing facilities, you will have nice and beautiful skin







-  If you donate money and materials for constructing buildings in the monastery, you will have a big and beautiful house in your next life
-  If you build bathrooms and toilets for the monastery and help to build public hospitals, you will have a healthy and happy life










Releasing of fish is another way of making merits.
These fishes are bought live from the wet market nearby and released
in the river near temple compound 
Note-Don't eat back those species of fishes that you release











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