Author Archives: Udomson BK

The Services at WatAlbury is running every Sunday.

This week, it seem to be a rumor around about the Buddhist temple in Albury was closed. Today, Ajahn Satit the Buddhist monk who provide Sunday services at the temple in Albury since December 2010 confirm that the Sunday Service … Continue reading

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The Buddhist temple mystery

While more and more people in Albury starting to be aware of the Buddhist temple in Albury that it provides Sunday services in English which include meditation, Dhamma talks and chances to offer food to a Buddhist monk, there is … Continue reading

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What the Buddha taught about wash away your sins?

One Morning Phra Ananda, the Buddha’s attendant went for an alms round in Savatee City and saw a Brahmin named Sangarava who believed that to be pure from all sins one had to wash oneself three times a day in … Continue reading

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Wrong livelihood for lay followers

Right Livelihood (samma ajivo) is the fifth of the eight path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path, and belongs to the virtue division of the path. For lay people who have to do work in order to gain income for … Continue reading

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Soumana suttra (Giving vs not giving)

Once upon a time Princess Soumana with 500 princesses paid respect to the Lord Buddha and asked him the following: Oh! My Lord if your 2 disciples who had equal faith, morality and wisdom but one was more charitable than … Continue reading

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The fruit of rejoicing in others’ merit

Making merit by offering to the Sangha will gain countless fruit to the giver like the farmer who plants the crops in a rich soil. Those who wish for heavenly existence and nirvana should choose their merit field wisely. The … Continue reading

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The six roads to ruin(Abai ya mook)

Abai ya mook (bad drive) means the entrance to destruction. All of us like to be successful in life but with lack of right understanding or lack of discipline some may walk their life in the wrong ways. The Dhamma … Continue reading

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A New Way to Celebrate New Year in Sydney

New Year is the time to celebrate, the time to reflect the year passed and the time to make resolutions for the year ahead. People celebrate their New Year in many different ways. For Buddhists in Sydney, they chose to … Continue reading

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The Buddhs’s Relics Exhibition Opening Ceremony, Sydney CBD

  Buddhist monks and laypeople in Sydney are very pleased to receive a large rare collection of the Buddha’s relics and the relics of his disciples from a collector in Queensland. The collection is on loan for an exhibition in … Continue reading

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Reckless one is similar to a dead person.

One morning when the Lord Buddha went for an alms round he saw a merchant setting up his shop to run a business for the three seasons i.e. for summer, winter and autumn. Knowing his future, the Buddha smiled, that … Continue reading

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