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Mutelu, With Understanding

มูเตลู อย่างรู้และเข้าใจ

Beliefs seen with wisdom: worshipping Thao Wessuwan rightly, whether devas and nāgas exist, merit for petas, resolving kamma, and karmic creditors.

6 articles

From the books Good Dhamma, Happy Life

  1. How to Worship Thao Wessuwan (Vessavaṇa) the Right Way

    Worship Thao Wessuwan (Vessavaṇa) as the stream-enterer he is, not by begging for luck, and chant the Āṭānāṭiya Paritta correctly and with understanding.     pp. 67–70

  2. Do Devas Really Exist?

    In the Buddha's teaching there are three kinds of devas, by convention, by birth and by purity. Devas are born spontaneously and live in six heavens.     pp. 71–76

  3. Do Nāgas Really Exist?

    In the Buddha's teaching, nāgas are animals of the lower realms ruled by Virūpakkha. Some have great power, but no nāga can realize the Dhamma.     pp. 77–80

  4. Dedicating Merit to Petas

    Merit reaches departed relatives when they know of it and rejoice in it themselves. Dedicate it to all your kin in saṃsāra; your own merit does not shrink.     pp. 81–87

  5. How to Resolve Karma the Right Way

    “Resolving karma” is paṭikamma in the monks’ language: making amends, giving up evil, turning to good. Holy water and chanting cannot erase bad karma.     pp. 88–90

  6. Karmic Creditors

    Karmic creditors are those we bore enmity with in past lives. The way out is to drop grudges and grow loving-kindness; arahants are free of them for good.     pp. 91–94