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Video-1075 Buddhist Stories: "The Past Lives of the First Five Disciples"
It’s not like you became enlightened, then just like that all the people come to you, bow to you and offer fruit and flowers and then you just rescue them. You have to do something first, so that the Lord of Karma like, certifies you, thinking you are good enough to ..(more)
Video-1077 Buddhist Stories: The Layperson Who Offered an Ashram to the Buddha
In the Buddha's time, there was a person named Vimalakirti. He was a layperson, a lay disciple of the Buddha. But his wisdom was so high, He was a great bodhisattva. Many people were delivered because of him, liberated because of him. Sometimes the bodhisattvas are not ..(more)
Video-1078 Buddhist Stories: "The Story of Cai Su"
Not every Buddha has affinity with many beings in order to come and deliver them or teach them. Shakyamuni Buddha, lives after lives, asamkhyeya eons, has done a lot benefit to many beings in Heaven as well as on Earth. That’s why when he became Buddha, he had a lot of ..(more)
Video-1079 Buddhist Stories: "500 Beggars"
All these stories are for you to practice, to remember, to encourage you to meditate. You must remember all that, and you must continue reading, listening, so that at home, you keep yourself in the same path, in the straight area. Keep your mind clean and determined. ..(more)
Video-1080 Master Treats the Working Staff
In appreciation for their devotion, Supreme Master Ching Hai lovingly shared vegan ice cream with the working staff. She encouraged them to be humble like trees. A tree that grows a lot of fruit bends down lower. People should do the same. Good people are very humble. ..(more)
Video-1081 Buddhist Stories: "The Starving Tigress"
So helping the helpless, helping the needy, no matter where, no matter what, is really helping yourself. The reward is more than anything you can imagine. Your heart feel compassionate and sorrowful for the people in need. But your spirit feels very very elevated and ..(more)
Video-1082 Buddhist Stories: "The Story of Khuda"
And this person, Devadatta, was extremely arrogant also. He wanted everybody to respect him as much as the Buddha. He wanted to be equal with the Buddha. Even though he didn't have spiritual merit as the Buddha. If a person is jealous and arrogant like this how can he ..(more)
Video-1083 Buddhist Stories: "The Monk With The Golden Coin"
When Buddha was alive he had go around begging for food. He did this not only in order to give others merit, but also to sow affinity with the Buddha, so sooner or later another Buddha would come. And then they probably follow that Buddha, and become enlightened, ..(more)
Video-1085 Buddhist Stories: The Girl Born with a White Silk Cloth
If you always think of somebody else’s comfort, benefit, before yourself, then you are saints; very simple like that. Selflessness is saintliness. So being poor doesn’t mean unhappy. The fewer things I have,the happier I feel. I feel freer. I just make it more popular, ..(more)
Video-1086 Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: "A Monk Called Celestial Jewels"
At home, you should seriously consider each lesson as if it’s the only one before you die. You have to study it well. Really try to understand it and practice it. Learning from the ancient practitioners and ancient Buddha. Their teaching is still so very valuable, ..(more)
Video-1087 Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity
If you keep these Five Precepts, next life you will be born as human again, with all these, but not having to be born in hell or as vicious animals, of suffering of any kind. Keeping the Five Precepts, you will not go to Heaven. If just Five Precepts alone, then you ..(more)
Video-1089 Buddhist Stories: "The Story of Lakngaisaiya"
The reason why the Buddha has to do it all over again, is because he has to earn merit again. He’s still a Buddha, of course. Meaning that all the merit that he earned, he had to use to give it to these people, in order for them to rise up to become Arhat, all ..(more)
Video-1090 Buddhist Stories: "The Nun Wonderful"
Now, this is a story about a nun named Vi Diệu. Vi Diệu means very wonderful. One time the Buddha was in the country Xá Vệ (Sravasti). At this time, many of the nobles and rich families' daughters, came to the Buddha and became nuns together. One time, they talked to ..(more)
Video-1091 Buddhist Stories: The Story of Sai Ma
I have just watched a little news on TV. Germany has opened their arms to receive refugees and so... And UK also. All the dangers they risked to run away from war. War is terrible. Then this is what kind of world? If we just ignore them and let them die of thirst and ..(more)
Video-1092 Buddhist Stories: The Buddha’s Former Life As A King Named Moonlight
As I told you already, He has been Buddha a long, long time ago. But in order to sow affinity with new sentient beings, or older sentient beings which He has not delivered in some former life, and have affinity with Him, He has to come back again and start from zero. ..(more)