When I was a child, I liked various ancient sciences because my father was considered to have some knowledge and was a refuge for the villagers in the neighborhood. He was a local doctor, a blow doctor, a healer, a ghost exorcist, etc., which I saw often. There is one thing that my father often taught me: "If you grow up and have these beliefs, remember that before you accept or respect someone as a teacher, or accept a bowl to pay respect to, or learn magic spells from someone, go and look at the house of the craftsman or teacher first. If the house is a pan-pan house, rich and prosperous, then accept it. That teacher is good and has magical powers that can protect us and make us prosper. But if the house is a wooden pole house, a thatch roof (bamboo poles, bamboo floor, thatched roof), don't accept it. That teacher is hot, hot rice, hot things, and you can't come to see him. If you can’t support yourself, how can you support your children and wife? Remember that.” I also remember my father’s teachings. However, some teachers also hold up a spell. For example, he told the story of Phra Huang who used Sikma water as black lime water for his head and a ladder as a pillow. But he was very angry. But when we look at the teacher’s house, like the house of Grandfather Brahmin Chuchok, we also want to hold it. It is tempting to accept and worship it. But we restrain ourselves because of my father’s teachings, so we don’t follow in his footsteps…
Now that we have talked about it, let’s try to look at the strategies of ancient teachers. If we look at it from another perspective, holding a bowl and a teacher, having a teacher with us, sang the teacher and medicine, or these various rituals are all strategies that apply the teachings of the Lord Buddha to teach people without principles to be principled people. For example, holding this spell prohibits drinking alcohol, getting a tattoo prohibits breaking the precepts of sexual intercourse, accepting a teacher prohibits stealing, having an affair with another person’s wife, or cursing someone else’s father or mother. If someone breaks the teacher’s name, they will go crazy, lose their mind, or be unable to make a living. It makes people have a principle in their hearts, and when they do something, they will develop their wisdom through these teachings and beliefs. Therefore, these beliefs are “Dhamma through karma, the breath of faith” that will last throughout life.....
( Credit : Kb Apiwat )
