Reflection after watching the Channelnews "Monk on Horseback

• bohiruci

  1 Dec 07, 08:49

  The Thai monk is a muay thai boxer last time and join the Thai Military ,it was before the international Muay Thai Competition he give up and practise Buddhism
  
  His muay thai training helps the poor thai border children to train up and get away from the frustration of prevailing poverty
  
  In Mahayana Concept ,I see him adopting a skilful mean by asking pre-ordainee to train stubborn horses .
  
  "if the horse is stubborn , it would be a headache to the child, so what about the child if he is stubborn to the teacher ?"
  
  The Thai tradition of blessing and tatooing culture is prevalent in Thai rural area ,where He also encounters the black magic of brahmanical origin trying to hurt him and Buddhist establishment
  
  its becos of his several narrow death escape, that many devotee revered him as possessing some form of magical power
  
  Though i dun really respect blessing teaching ,but it does offer a consolation to the rural people who are desperate ,and prevent mental breakdown
  
  Buddha have come to give us teaching to liberate our mental suffering ,not physical ones
  
  unorthodox tradition like kumantong and phra ngan still persist in rural thai
  
  This gives an idea how fortunate singapore is when the material here is abundance and we simply complain its not enough and we want more
  
  May I transfer all merits to this people and be forever free from borders fighting , opium smuggling and prostitution
  
  
• n0vice

  2 Dec 07, 23:35

  happened to watch Monk on horseback last night .. was very touched by the monk's passion.
  Wanted to watch again, .. any sources that i can find like video or other medias ?
  Wish i could help the boys too ...
  
  
• bohiruci

  3 Dec 07, 13:29

  Originally posted by n0vice:

  happened to watch Monk on horseback last night .. was very touched by the monk's passion.
  Wanted to watch again, .. any sources that i can find like video or other medias ?
  Wish i could help the boys too ...
  
  

  they are in cambodia , thailand and burma border ,
  if you interested , you can contact the thai buddhist establishment in singapore to go there to donate to the thai monk
  
  I pray for the children happiness from this frustrating prevalent poverty
  
  Namo Amitabha