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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Gambling (Collection of Ajahn Brahm's lecture)



Collecting money is harder, but spend it easy and the easiest way to lose money is to gamble. All gamblers are losers in the end. Nevertheless, people are still happy predict the future and hope to get a lot of money from gambling. I told these two stories to show how dangerous it predict the future, even if we get a sign.



On one morning, a friend woke up from a dream that feels very real. He dreamed of the five angels who gave him five large gold pitcher as a symbol of good luck. When she opened her eyes, the angels did not exist in his bedroom, and unfortunately the gold urns are also absent. However, it is a very strange dream.


When he went to the kitchen, he saw his wife had made five hard-boiled eggs with five pieces of toast for breakfast. On the front page morning paper, he observed on that day, May 5 (fifth month). Strange things continue. He turned the paper sheet to the horse racing pages. He was stunned to see that at Ascot (five letters), in the fifth race, horse number five named ... Five Angels! The dream was an omen.


He took off half a day. She pulled the 5000 dollars from the savings in the bank. He went to the racetrack, the fifth port, and put at stake: 5,000 dollars for horse number 5, racing number 5, Five Angels, to win. The dream would not be wrong. Figures 5 hockey certainly right. His dream was indeed not a mistake. The horses completed the race in order to-5.


The second story happened in Singapore several years ago. An Australian man married a beautiful Chinese girl from Singapore. Once, when they were visiting family in Singapore, come in-laws invited to go to the racetrack. He agreed to go along mereka.Tapi before arriving at the racetrack, they stopped first at a famous Buddhist monastery to light incense and pray for luck. When they arrived, the small monastery in a state of disarray. Then they took some brooms, mop, and water and started cleaning the whole monastery. Afterwards, they lit incense and prayed untulk pleaded luck, then slid into the racetrack. Finally, they all lost big.


At night, the Australian dream of a horse race. When awake, he can remember very clearly the name of the horse who became the winner in his dream. Ketka he read the newspaper The Straits Times, was a horse with that name exists, and will race in the afternoon. He then called his in-law to preach the good news. But the law does not believe that the gods guard the monastery of Singaporeans willing to tell the name of the winner to a Western horse, so they do not care about the Western dream. The Australian then went to the racetrack. He's a big bet on the horse. And the horse to win real.


Chinese monastery gods must like the Australians. lpar - in-law could only grumble-grumble.




Sources from the Internet,
Excerpted from the book Opening the Door Heart

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