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Why Are You Here?

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 […]

July 11, 2014 – 11:02 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Food for Thought, Part 2

Vegetarianism as a condition
Case 1: Tara
Tara took an ethics class on Animal Liberation and was regularly exposed to literature and media portraying the cruelty at factory farms and slaughterhouses. She started to feel bad for the suffering animals. Every time she ate meat, she would feel like she was making an active decision to participate […]

August 30, 2013 – 1:18 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Food for Thought, Part 1

Many Thais with Chinese roots believe in Guanyin, the compassionate Bodhisattva. It is believed that she traded her arm for her father’s ticket out hell so that he could subsequently be reborn as a cow. Today, many say that they pay homage to Guanyin by refraining from eating beef, as she did in that lifetime […]

August 18, 2013 – 10:25 pm | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)