Good Karma Music Stories

Two days before I attended the 5th Global Buddhist Conference ( 17 – 18 November 2007 ) in the Sunway Convention Center in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, a little happening took place at our local Buddhist Association in Teluk Intan. A widow and her only child, a 7-year old boy named Chong Guan visited us. They were one of the cases in our Welfare Aid Program. When I first saw Chong Guan, something in my heart told me that he had the potential to grow in the Dhamma. He is intelligent and has an inquiring mind. I showed and explained to him the 30 copper-tooling plates displaying the life of the Buddha in our Shrine Hall. Chong Guan was most attentive and his eyes sparkled … this was his first encounter with the life history of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.He will be following our Buddhist Sunday School next year. I hope the lotus in him will bloom …

I am a Chinese Malaysian studying in China for the past one and a half years. This is my first time to study abroad and I got many opportunities to meet friends from different background. Sometimes, chatting is not the only way to build a friendship as we may concern about different topics. I found out that doing Dana is a useful way. Dana included helping people financially or physically, sharing knowledge/skills and showing our sympathy. Doing dana not only can make merits, but also make ourselves to be more thoughtful, helpful and caring, and the more important thing is, we manage to help people! Both of us will be happy. Sometimes we may earn new skills by helping people.I win some friendships by doing Dana and it also helps me to get use to new environment more quickly. 🙂

Rev Heng Sure was recently here in KL for a conference. My wife received word that the reverend would be paying a visit to the way place at Old Klang Road and persuaded me to take her there. Reluctantly I agreed and took her there. I am glad I did!. Master Heng Sure’s dharma talk was most inspiring. He gave us a prebriefing of his following day’s presentation at the conference, “Preparing for Death”. His story about the widow of Wintech Technology’s widow was thought-provoking. It greatly illustrates that with faith, one can remain steadfast and resolute to overcome all pains & obstacles. The lure of ‘The Pure Land’ was also inspiring. Thank your very much, dear reverend, for sharing this knowledge with us. Amitofo

The greatest part of getting to know the dhamma, I learnt to be grattitude towards my parents. The difficult part is how to do the talk. For several years have been trying to share the joy of learning the dharma with my parents. Recently, my sister have bought the ticket to the 5th Global conference and she can’t make it. My first thought is to invite my parents to join. I know that will be difficult. The next thought is as usual they will be making excuses trying not to make it. However, I’ve make the effort to give them a call, encouraging them to come. Guess what, my mum is coming. Through out the conference, I can see her enjoying the talk and listening to the buddha dharma, and meeting new friends. She actually enjoy. I’m sure she will be sharing her joy with my dad later too. A good thoughts really need extra effort to take into action and it yields good result and the greatest joy is to be able to bring my parents along to the door of buddha dharma.p/s: My wife love the songs very much and it takes my courage to share my story to all here and now. With gratitude I say Sadhu!Sadhu!Sadhu! to those who composed the songs and create this opportunity for all to share. 🙂

Every since I graduated from University, I travelled down to Kuala Lumpur from Ipoh, to look for a job, later settled down for good in KL until today, about 14 years already. When I was working I did not think about my mom ( of course my dad passed away 14 years ago) All my brothers have also left to work outstation, left with my mom and a younger sister. Soon after that married with kids, everyday just work and spend more time with friends and my family only, less time spent talking to mom, call her or visit her in Ipoh. Sometimes months never call or visit. That changes when I came to know in depth progrssively about Buddhism. I felt so lousy, and embarassed. Actually in reality, I have come to realised that my mom is the real world Amitabha Buddha, she taught us to be compassionate and kindness to people, she always make us feel at home, just like Amitabha Buddha keep on calling us to come home. But due to our ignorance and greed we are lost and forgotten our good roots. My mom is also the Medicine Buddha, when we are sick, she attended to us and make us recover. When we are in danger she come our rescue.What I have learnt in the society now is to earn more money, and enjoy while you can. After I have to come to know deeper about Buddhism, I realised that my mom is more important to me, without her there is no me, without her the affinity is not complete. i told my mom, if one day my life comes to an end and rebirth in Amitabha Country, she will be the first person I will come back for her, so that she will be reborn in Amitabha World too. This is only thing I could do after I have gone. As for now, I call my mom every week to greet her and ask how she is doing and if time permit will drive back home to be with her. All I know, after some Buddhist lesson, I know I have a long way to cultivate, but I will not give up because I vow to be rebirth in Amitabha Buddha Country.Thank You to the late Master Hsuan Hua and Ven. Heng Sure, for the guidance, and for the opportunity for me to learn in depth into the Buddha Dharma, in time to come if the cause and condition is there I will repay your kindness.

there has been rats visiting & residing e in my house since weeks ago.. is getting less !? why..we set up rats-trap in cage, everytime we caught one for past 2 years, Jasmine & I release them in the wilderness neighbourhood., not forgeting chant triple gems for them.then, we noted rats visiting us become less agressive & wiser.they are less visiting our house now! or, perhaps seasonal.may we all become compassionate & wise..

About 2 years ago, a friend came to me saying that her grandfather was admitted to the Hospital in coma. The doctor could not detect what was wrong with him. He, the patient, did not respond to any of the medicine the doctor applied or fed him. As he was still breathing, so they had to keep him alive by providing the respiratory aids + liquid foods. That went on for more than a week, and as the medical cost was running more and more, her father was thinking of pulling off the plug, but the doctor did not allow him to do so as the patient was still “alive”. They did not know what to do. I asked my friend her grandfather belonged to what religion, did he do any prayer? She said he did not prayed to anything at home, only occasionally go to temples, lighted joss-sticks, donated some money and left, and he did not quarrel nor having trouble with any body. With that an idea suddenly came to my mind. I went to Amitabha Buddhist centre, got a battery operated player (F.O.C), which could chant “Namo O MI thor FO” none stop (unless battery flat). I passed that player to my friend asking her to play the chanting at the grandfather’s bedside, at the same time asking her grandfather to chant together with the player (in his mind of course, eventhough he was in coma, his mind was still functioning, I suppose). By doing so, there were 2 possibilities:1) If the patient destined to survive, he would be able to recover.2) If the patient destined to die, he would die peacefully and would go for a better rebirth. So my friend tried and the feedback was:”I played the player beside my grandfather’s bedside and asked him to chant (in his mind) together the Namo O MI Thor fo”. Just within an hour or so, he passed away peacefully.” Hope this experience will not only help my friend’s grandfather, also others who need this kind of help (to recover, or die peacefully). Karuna,K.T. Chong