มาหยั่ง มาเฮ็ดยั่ง
At a temple in Thailand, a woman had a dream that Luang Por Thoon asked her
มาหยั่ง มาเฮ็ดยั่ง
มาทำไม มาทำอะไร
Why are you here? What are you here to do?
When she relayed the dream to me, I asked her some questions:
มาวัดทำไม
Why are you here at the temple?
มาหาพี่สาวที่วัด
To visit my sister here at the temple.
แล้วมาทำอะไร
What are you here to do?
มารอหลาน จะพาไปวัดอื่น
To wait for my granddaughter to bring me to another temple
แล้วจะไปทำอะไรที่นั้น
What will you do at that temple?
ปฏิบัติธรรม
Practice dhamma
Which brings up good questions- Why can’t you practice dhamma here? Why must you wait to go to the other temple?
This was immediately applied to the situation at hand:
What are you eating? why are you eating it?
Noodle soup. Eating it to be polite because that person gave it to me.
Is that action correct or not? Eating with conditions, is that the right thing to do? What are the consequences?
If you can apply this simple set of questions to other topics, and answer yourself with the truth, you will find a wealth of dhamma topics to contemplate.
Any examples you all would like to share?
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