Chaing Mai: Thai Secret Cooking Class Photos & Videos
September 30 - 2013
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Making Thai Curry Paste
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Stir Fry Cashew Nut & Chicken
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Going To Buddhist Hell: Part 1
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Buddhist Hell: Part 2
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Buddhist Hell: Part 3
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Buddhist Hell: Part 4
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Going To Buddhist Hell: Part 5
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Buddhist Hell: Part 6
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Buddhist Hell: Part 7
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Buddhist Hell: Part 8
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Going To Buddhist Heaven
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We want to thank you for coming to our home and cooking with us!
Since our school is relatively new, we would like to ask if you can share a few words
about your experience with us, on one of the links below.
We wish you the best
May & Jason
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The Buddhist concept of heaven and hell is entirely different from that in other
religions. Buddhists do not accept that these places are eternal. It is
unreasonable to condemn a man to eternal hell for his human weakness but quite
reasonable to give him every chance to develop himself. From the Buddhist point
of view, those who go to hell can work themselves upward by making use of the
merit that they had acquired previously. There are no locks on the gates of
hell. Hell is a temporary place and there is no reason for those beings to
suffer there forever.
The Buddha's Teaching shows us that there are heavens and hells not only beyond this
world, but in this very world itself. Thus the Buddhist conception of heaven and
hell is very reasonable. For instance, the Buddha once said, 'When the average
ignorant person makes an assertion to the effect that there is a Hell (patala)
under the ocean he is making a statement which is false and without basis. The
word 'Hell' is a term for painful sensations. 'The idea of one particular
ready-made place or a place created by god as heaven and hell is not acceptable
to the Buddhist concept.
The fire of hell in this world is hotter than that of the hell in the world-beyond.
There is no fire equal to anger, lust or greed and ignorance. According to the
Buddha, we are burning from eleven kinds of physical pain and mental agony:
lust, hatred, illusion sickness, decay, death, worry, lamentation, pain(physical
and mental), melancholy and grief. People can burn the entire world with some of
these fires of mental discord. From a Buddhist point of view, the easiest way to
define hell and heaven is that where ever there is more suffering, either in
this world or any other plane, that place is a hell to those who suffer. And
where there is more pleasure or happiness, either in this world or any other
worldly existence, that place is a heaven to those who enjoy their worldly life
in that particular place. However, as the human realm is a mixture of both pain
and happiness, human beings experience both pain and happiness and will be able
to realize the real nature of life. But in many other planes of existence
inhabitants have less chance for this realization. In certain places there is
more suffering than pleasure while in some other places there is more pleasure
than suffering.
Buddhists
believe that after death rebirth can take place in any one of a number of
possible existences. This future existence is conditioned by the last
thought-moment a person experiences at the point of death. This last thought
which determines the next existence results from the past actions of a man
either in this life or before that. Hence, if the predominant thought reflects
meritorious action, then he will find his future existence in a happy state. But
that state is temporary and when it is exhausted a new life must begin all over
again, determined by another dominating 'kammic' energy. This repetitious
process goes on endlessly unless one arrives at 'Right View' and makes a firm
resolve to follow the Noble Path which produces the ultimate happiness of
Nibbana.
Heaven
is a temporary place where those who have done good deeds experience more
sensual pleasures for a longer period. Hell is another temporary place where
those evil doers experience more physical and mental suffering. It is not
justifiable to believe that such places are permanent. There is no god behind
the scene of heaven and hell. Each and every person experiences according to
his good and bad kamma. Buddhist never try to introduce Buddhism by
frightening people through hell-fire or enticing people by pointing to
paradise. Their main idea is character building and mental training. Buddhists
can practise their religion without aiming at heaven or without developing fear
of hell.
religions. Buddhists do not accept that these places are eternal. It is
unreasonable to condemn a man to eternal hell for his human weakness but quite
reasonable to give him every chance to develop himself. From the Buddhist point
of view, those who go to hell can work themselves upward by making use of the
merit that they had acquired previously. There are no locks on the gates of
hell. Hell is a temporary place and there is no reason for those beings to
suffer there forever.
The Buddha's Teaching shows us that there are heavens and hells not only beyond this
world, but in this very world itself. Thus the Buddhist conception of heaven and
hell is very reasonable. For instance, the Buddha once said, 'When the average
ignorant person makes an assertion to the effect that there is a Hell (patala)
under the ocean he is making a statement which is false and without basis. The
word 'Hell' is a term for painful sensations. 'The idea of one particular
ready-made place or a place created by god as heaven and hell is not acceptable
to the Buddhist concept.
The fire of hell in this world is hotter than that of the hell in the world-beyond.
There is no fire equal to anger, lust or greed and ignorance. According to the
Buddha, we are burning from eleven kinds of physical pain and mental agony:
lust, hatred, illusion sickness, decay, death, worry, lamentation, pain(physical
and mental), melancholy and grief. People can burn the entire world with some of
these fires of mental discord. From a Buddhist point of view, the easiest way to
define hell and heaven is that where ever there is more suffering, either in
this world or any other plane, that place is a hell to those who suffer. And
where there is more pleasure or happiness, either in this world or any other
worldly existence, that place is a heaven to those who enjoy their worldly life
in that particular place. However, as the human realm is a mixture of both pain
and happiness, human beings experience both pain and happiness and will be able
to realize the real nature of life. But in many other planes of existence
inhabitants have less chance for this realization. In certain places there is
more suffering than pleasure while in some other places there is more pleasure
than suffering.
Buddhists
believe that after death rebirth can take place in any one of a number of
possible existences. This future existence is conditioned by the last
thought-moment a person experiences at the point of death. This last thought
which determines the next existence results from the past actions of a man
either in this life or before that. Hence, if the predominant thought reflects
meritorious action, then he will find his future existence in a happy state. But
that state is temporary and when it is exhausted a new life must begin all over
again, determined by another dominating 'kammic' energy. This repetitious
process goes on endlessly unless one arrives at 'Right View' and makes a firm
resolve to follow the Noble Path which produces the ultimate happiness of
Nibbana.
Heaven
is a temporary place where those who have done good deeds experience more
sensual pleasures for a longer period. Hell is another temporary place where
those evil doers experience more physical and mental suffering. It is not
justifiable to believe that such places are permanent. There is no god behind
the scene of heaven and hell. Each and every person experiences according to
his good and bad kamma. Buddhist never try to introduce Buddhism by
frightening people through hell-fire or enticing people by pointing to
paradise. Their main idea is character building and mental training. Buddhists
can practise their religion without aiming at heaven or without developing fear
of hell.